Daggy’s latest blog entry is about Christmas presents, and, of course, himself and his phenomenal achievements. Call it a retrospective, if you wish.
For the 2009 holiday season, I decided to update my blog homepage and fill my fans and followers in on some of my gifts and achievements of the last twelve months . . .
It’s a missive from the cult leader to his members and groupies!
. . . 2009 still managed to be my best year in the “earning” department, where I doubt I will ever be able to rival 2007 in the quantity and material department.
No doubt he’s counting his inflated revenue figures of used magazines and comics from his Coney Island booth among his earnings. It’s clear that he made more in 2009 from selling other people’s material than he did in 2007 from selling his own stories. Note that 2007 saw the one and only issue of his failed attempt at publishing: The Literary Bone. Note also that Daggy, like Pacione, places a premium on quantity over, say, quality.
Some of these achievements . . . minor proofreading . . . resumes . . . making over 2000 friends and followers on Facebook, and just a lot revolving around . . . The Spirit of Christmas.
Is The Spirit of Christmas a new story title? It appears so. The rest of the entry is devoted to showing all the toys he’s going to give his son for Christmas.
As for the achievements, let’s just say that proofreading, writing other people’s resumes (instead of his own), and accepting over 2000 “friends” on Facebook is less than impressive.
I realized that, money-wise, it doesn’t pay to release a second short story collection. I can earn more individually.
Or by hawking used comics and magazines at Coney Island?
One of the items I searched the UK high and low for was The Cybermen Age of Steel 4-figure collection. Collect them all, open up the packages, and you can build a fifth figure. The Cyber Controller.
Wait. Did he actually attend that con in Brighton? More likely, he means that he scoured UK-based websites looking for these toys. His son may end up playing with these action figures dolls, but it’s pretty obvious that Lorenzo really bought them for himself. It’s akin to an aging playboy who buys his trophy wife a red sports car and lets her drive it once in a while.
Some of the other gifts, which are already wrapped, consist of model kits with glues and paints from my old man, though they say ages 8+ and 12+ on the packages. So I guess the little one will have to hold on to them until he’s old enough to understand them.
Assuming Lorenzo doesn’t sniff all the glue and paint fumes first . . .
. . . I also treated myself to a few early-season gifts. First, notice the non-fiction book above on Pompeii. You got it. It’s research time. Lawrence Dagstine will be coming your way sometime in 2010 with a story set in Pompeii.
Whatever happened to that story set in ancient Egypt that he was going to write? After all, he spent a whole afternoon visiting a museum exhibit to do his research for that story.
And if you look up above, I finally have a new computer desk. Nice to have shelving and a drawer, but still unsure of what to fill it up with yet. Now that the little one has gotten older, the bookcase units pretty much belong to him and his toys.
Pro tip: fill the shelves with all the Dr. Who and superhero dolls you bought, and buy the kid a toy chest.
Stay with me in 2010. We have many adventures to go on together, and much awaits. Won’t you join me? To all my fans and readers…
*barf*
What a selfish jerk. His son’s still in the stroller. It’s clear as day that bought all of that or himself.
As for his “research,” he’ll probably just flip through the pages, look at some of the pictures, understand none of what he reads and do it wrong anyway.
Which reminds me… Hey Larry, whatever happened to that Coney Island project? Oh, that’s right… you lied about it.
Was tempted to comment and then….. Couldn’t be arsed!
Carry on!
“almost made it into 4 professional level magazines/venues”
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades Larry.
Well, he is the type of guy who would brag about attending a great party because he almost made it past the bouncer. Hey, it counts as an achievement. After all, he could still hear the music from the street. 😉
Larry, Larry, Larry… being rejected from a professional market does not count as an “almost made it.” You were rejected because your writing sucks, because you write for sub-pro markets that pay horribly and have little distribution and readership. You’ve locked yourself into that world.
Why don’t you go to Black Matrix Publishing? Your aspirations and talent along with their pay rate are a perfect match.
I had to look up Black Matrix because I had never heard of it, and I choked on my soda.
Tafford has come up in some of the discussions with Victoria Strauss.
“my fans and followers”
I rest my case.
Signed,
http://www.autoaim.org/smugdog.gif
Vern, was that a Lardy Boy ‘Carry On!’? If so, well played, sir!
A story about Pompeii. Let me guess, the volcano did it.
Larry: “It was a volcano? Damn. I thought it was a tsunami. Oh. Phuket? Same thing — it starts with a P.”
Ahem………. 🙂
Love the way he buries his Christmas post really quickly after having the mick taken out of him.
Of course, he buries it with announcements on for the luv sales.
Good move, Flea Market. That will impress *sarcasm*
As Mike said above: “you write for sub-pro markets that pay horribly and have little distribution and readership. You’ve locked yourself into that world.”
Too true.
Isn’t this guy http://fictiontipsweekly.blogspot.com/2009/12/preditor-plagiarist.html the guy publishing this http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/13394/t/Joe-McGee-tribute-book-coming-soon.html ?
If so, “Iron Dave” is incredibly ballsy. I don’t necessarily question how he suckered in a couple of the people on his contributing author list who have briefly been mentioned here, but most of them should know better than to dive in without researching the guy.
From the blog entry’s reprinted article about Iron Dave:
I wonder if it had anything to do with the amount of money involved in the 25 copies being less than $500, or some such figure that would elevate the scam to a higher, and much more serious legal level. Note that most of the authors listed in the McGee tribute are U.S. based, so the foreign author angle doesn’t apply. That’s what leads me to question whether the dollar amounts involved with the previous scam are just low enough to not trip some legal limit. Just kicking around a thought . . .
As for Cyrus Wraith Walker, his Blogspot has been around since May, and he still hasn’t noticed the typo/error in his blog’s subtitle? Dude — writers is plural in that context, not possessive.
Hmm. Check out Doc Byron’s posts at SL. In his various posts, he references and/or links to several websites hosted at webs.com (formerly Freewebs.com). Wicked Kitty Productions been frozen for reported abuse. His SL post that linked to it (“Hottest Ladies in Horror”) was posted less than a month ago.
Let’s see . . . free website + shut down for abuse = bad news.
In case you didn’t know Rusty, an amount at or larger than 500 usd is flagged for a fraud check through Pay-pal especially when being passed through a new account. Paypal fraud checks are a real pain/ headache.
On the first day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
A story he’d published for free!
On the second day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
Two failed projects
And a story he’d published for free!
On the third day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
And a story he’d published for free!
On the fourth day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
4theluv anthologies
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
And a story he’d published for free!
On the fifth day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
Fifteen reprints
4theluv anthologies
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
And a story he’d published for free!
Hey, it’s Dagmas — who’s (triple) counting? 😉
Fifteen reprints
4theluv anthologies
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
A story published for free
And a partridge in a pear treeeeee!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA! You bastards owe me a new cup of coffee!
On the sixth day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
Two vanity published novels
Fifteen reprints
4theluv anthologies
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
And a story he’d published for free.
On the seventh day of Dagmas
My true love gave to me
One badly written e-book
Two vanity published novels
Fifteen reprints
4theluv anthologies
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
And a story he’d published for free.
GAAAAAH!
Oh that’s very good!
Sorry, Neve. Your comment was stuck in moderation. So I was right about there being a dollar limit that Iron Dave wanted to avoid, even if I was off a bit on the reason. Interesting.
One badly written e-book
Two vanity published novels
Fifteen reprints
4theluv anthologies
Three form rejections
Two failed projects
A story published for free
And a dying partridge perched on that damned pear treee!
That’s Ok Rusty, I thought it might just be something like that. I normally just keep an eye on things here as a way of checking up on my boss, Cuss. Nitwits = stress, upset and low productivity, so the quieter they are the easier it is to get things done =)
Just stopping by to wish you all a happy holidays no matter how you celebrate the season. 🙂
YIKES! THE MINIONS HAVE FOUND ME.
ha!
And yes, Merry Christmas everyone. 😀
Merry Christmas…
Alas a new Nitwit has been born this day…
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/12/guest-post-jennifer-brissett-weighs-in-on-the-writer-pay-rate-flap/
And then she went to her blog and claimed she was right, despite the pros proving her wrong.
http://www.jennbrissett.com/journal/index.php/site/postscript_to_vitriol/
Oh my. That’ll take some time to properly dissect, but my immediate takeaway is that her self-righteous blog entry is really a self-congratulatory “woot” that so many people even noticed her original rant.
Noticed this little gem as part of Philbin’s post about directed energy weapons and 9/11.
“More to come in this post, if I’m still alive in the New Year… ”
I’m sure his tinfoil hat will save him from the NWO’s lethal cell phone radiation and H.A.R.P.
To Rusty and all my friends,
A very happy holiday to all.
Best wishes for the new year.
Vern.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas! May this day greet you with goodness and kindness.
Merry Christmas all
OT: I got an email from “Iron Dave.” reply is posted on my blogs.
Merry Christmas, ever’body!
Ditto, belatedly of course. 🙂
Is it just me, or did Daggy just confess to swiping Tim Pratt’s “Blood Engines” via the internet?
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/13823/t/Top-10-Book-Choices-of-2009.html
He says he downloaded it for free, but Tim’s site only offers the first chapter as a preview and links to Amazon for purchasing the book…
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he downloaded it from RapidShare.
Or he only read the first chapter and is claiming to have read the entire book.
I’m willing to bet he swiped it, although Lewis’s statement does have merit (and Larry is liar). But remember how he was bragging on SL about seeing a bootleg of a movie thathad just been released that week or so? The name of the film eludes me, but he got put to task on that one.
I think he said he bought the bootleg of that movie for $10 from a street vendor.
The ebook of Blood Engines was made available for free from book blogger suduvu earlier this year. At least that’s where I got it.