Tales of the Parodyverse - By helping strengthen neck muscles?

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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 at 07:16:18 am EDT

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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 at 08:35:13 pm EDT

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September? It's being shipped there by brigantine sailing schooner? Or printed on Alpha Centuri? We used to be able to transport bloody convicts over there quicker than that!

I think it's coming round trip via Caph. If it arrives with a green-skinned beauty who wants to do my bidding I will keep her. Just saying.

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Shep is moonlighting as the Princess of Mars?

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Well, according to the artist, some guy named Diller, he reused a half-completed picture of one of the Caphans, but there's a strange resemblance to another person of our mutual acquaintance, as you can see from the cover. I reckon Shep got to him.

I reckon she did.

Okay - well after I get you to sign it, I'll track down that Diller guy to sign it, then I suppose I should also try to track down Sarah to sign it too. Sounds like quite the adventure really.

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I've had a Sir Mumphrey novel ready for a final proofread for a year now.

I'm happy to make my proofreading skills available to you for free! $\:\)$

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Alternately, I could go via a literary agent, who would negotiate something for me with a larger publisher; but many agents' contracts now include not only a percentage of book earnings (which is fair) but a percentage of earning from any future use of characters debuting in those books (which is not). I'm reluctant to get into the legal detail that a good deal would entail.

Wow, I had no idea. That does not sound fair at all.

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Or I could set up a company and publish them myself. The technology's out there now and the set-up costs are manageable. Trouble is, that feels a bit like vanity publishing to me, even if it makes a profit, and I'm not sure I want the hassle about what is really just my spare-time hobby. Plus, promoting a book requires a lot of time, energy, and expertise. I'm just not that into "pushing" myself.

You need your own Roni Y Avis style agent. Or not.

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