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James D. Macdonald said:

Listen. YADS is an old term. It dates back to the SFRT on GEnie. Anyone remember GEnie?

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Definitely. SFRT Roundtable and RomEx were great places tp hang out and learn. It's where I first heard about YADS and a number of other things.

Havlen said:

Wow, that's awesome. You should put that in your advertising! I hear Publish America is well on their way to becoming the biggest publisher in America and it can be very difficult for new aspiring authors to get their attention! I have a friend whose brother has a friend that was published by Publish America and he said they were one of the best publishers in the business!

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One of the best....try, THE best! Over 1 billion served!

This just in - www.whaddoyareckon.com is merging with Publish America to become the #1 stop for all your writing / reading needs. And because of that we are offering a one time offer to you, the aspiring author. For a one-time fee of 150 Roman Gold, you can send us your first draft and we will bind it and offer it to you for a mere $25 a copy. Of course, this doesn't include any kind of marketing, editing, or selling. But heck, we'll leave that to the real pub...I mean, the other guys. Ya, ya, the other guys.

CaoPaux said:

Behold, the placeholder page is now "live"!

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And what's the first thing I see over there?

"3 Easy steps to get your work in the public domain:"

Public domain?

Public domain?!

[Glyph of me falling on the floor, laughing.]

These guys don't have the first single solitary clue as to what they're doing.

Free hint, dude: Go find out what the words "public domain" mean.

James D. Macdonald said:

Public domain?

Public domain?!

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Hey, Uncle Jim, it's not all that easy.

It's taken some writers and musicians a hundred years or so to get there.

Yes, there is a good chance sending a manuscript to an agent or editor will get it rejected. Sometimes the manuscript isn't good enough, sometimes the person you're sending it to simply doesn't like it. Writing is a highly subjective business, but dealing with rejection is part of it.

If you do the legwork and look into people who sell the type of manuscript you have on offer, you can have representation for less than $90.

Agents and editors don't have submission guidelines for nothing. They won't look at some internet page, they expect emailed electrons or paper pages.

OnlyOneChapter is in the final stages of testing. I guess I can understand why I can't find any manuscripts yet, but why isn't the FAQ active yet. I want to know how clueless they are. If they are really asking the authors to release their work into the pubic domain or if they are just clueless enough to write that on the main page when they actually mean something different.

I can just see their FAQ:

1. How clueless are you?

2. Really?

3. Wow! Is there anyone else that clueless?

I just...wow. The internet doesn't do sarcasm well. I thought Rubic was kidding for the first page or so. Wow. Yeah.