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That's all about manipulating the market$$ and making dollar$$ from doing $$so.
Answer: one man's ego.
The 10 days sounds like maybe it's not so epic?
Voted for by the very people who grew up loving this movie.
I've also heard that people are now also switching agents for different books, which at one time would have been unheard of.
Riding the $$coattails$$
Excellent. Here's to good results!
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Why not both?
Geez, are some people taking "The customer is always right" WAY too far
Most decisions are never truly final . . .
I'm just saying, self-publishing could still be a good solution for you for other types of writing. Especially since you said you had some good results w short stories.
Poetry is hard to sell in general.
I guess there aren't any of those in the GOP right now
All of this is precisely BECAUSE some white people could not stand it that a Black man was President. Twice.
It is a sort of truism in fiction that if you want to make an audience like your MC, have bad things happen to them. But if that is all that is happening, if the MC just remains a poor shlub victim, then there's no story, it's just a list of abuses.
Only in the sense that Bernstein sometimes made leaps without facts to back them up. Woodward was more pedantic and they got the facts. But B's leaps were rarely wrong.
The only reason he resigned is bc Republicans stopped backing him. After he left office, he said It's not illegal if the President does it, and people were appalled. DT said that before the first election, and no one batted an eye.
We've been on a very long trajectory toward dictatorship.
"It's over now," Anthony said. "The awfulness of that time." It wasn't over. Since memory would not allow it to be over, it never would be. The damaged do not politely go away, instead release their demons. That must be so, she could not think that it was different."
Excerpt from An Idyll in Winter
I don't want to share credit card or SSN info to verify my age. How do I make the chat notification thing go away? #bluesky
The typo, "lives" instead of "lies" works.
Cover of Last Stories, by William Trevor, with a black and white photo that is mostly gray of a snowy lane bordered by thickly arching trees, and two people, hunched in their coats, walking away from the viewer in the middle distance while some pigeons hunch against the cold in the foreground.
William Trevor's final collection. 10 stories told gently, with melancholy, of how people bear the unbearable: the lives they tell themselves, when they decide to tell the truth, or not. Best enjoyed slowly, with pauses for reflection because he says the most important things only once.
DT is going to lose what is left of his mind, probably start another war
Cover of Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig, with an illustration of a man and woman in silhouette embracing each other, he looking down at her, she leaning back and looking up at him. Feather-like shapes adorn the space behind them.
Richly, deeply detailed story-within-a-story novella in which an elderly woman confesses a past passionate encounter of addiction and abandon. Much talk of s*icide. The fact that Zweig later took that step himself adds an eerie dimension.
It breaks my heart that the generation who loved and revered this film completely forgot everything it was about and voted for the bad guys. Over and over and over.
Who could have possibly foreseen that a man who ruins everything he touches would also destroy the economy? (Only everybody who did NOT vote for him. Twice.)
Of all the things to take him down, it will be GAS PRICES? Maybe he's right. Maybe the majority of this country really is that shallow and high on gas fumes.
