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Old 12-14-2007, 01:54 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Cool......
I was curious whether I had one of your books. During the 90's I was "distracted". I have a rather extensive collection from the 70's through the 80's, then books got so damn expensive - which is good for the authors but......
.......since the Internet well, accessing information is a lot quicker, tried looking something up in a book the other day, found the information but needed more guess what.......

How is the SciFi industry doing anyway, movies should be doing well, heard that the conventions have gone down hill in recent years.....
I'm still looking for a publisher, so you wouldn't have bought my work yet... unless someone somewhere owes me some money.

From what I saw at FYE [for your entertainment] there's a fairly broad range of novels, but Oprah's Book Club bullshit is artificially skewing the market toward self help and "true life" [even James Fry variety thereof] stories. Then there's that one 19 year old who was caught plaigerizing books, so instead of losing the first book she puts out that give her an even bigger book deal. This when it was plain and clear she wrote next to nothing of the previous she claimed as her own.

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