Folks, I despise Shemp as much as anyone...
....but Uncle Jim is right. We need to stay on point here re PA, and here's why:
1. Shemp did something stupid last weekend and we think PA was complicit in it to boot. Okay, that proves both entities are bums and scoundrels, and we all knew that going in. If you get right down to it, last weekend simply confirmed what we already knew to begin with.
2. Shemp might've been their biggest cheerleader, but we're talkin' about someone who sells no books and whose only PR comes from writer's message boards. If you don't believe me, do a Google search on him - you'll get two or three pages deep before you'll find his own website. Were it not for boards like this, no one would know he's alive. He's a literary mosquito.
3. PA is trying to pull some pretty profound stuff contract wise, and not near enough focus/discussion has occurred re that. Writers who are getting these letters need to be one hundred percent sure of what they're signing (or not signing, hopefully), and we need to be helping them.
4. We're basically in a street fight with PA, and we've got them to the point that they're lying on the ground and we have our foot propped up against their throat. Let's not let them up off the mat now, we need to mash down harder. Facts, facts, and more facts, let's beat 'em like a whore's daddy.
Remember this - lots of new people are here who're looking for answers regarding PA. Telling them to go all the way back through this entire thread to find them is asking them all to undertake something pretty daunting. We need to be feeding good, useful information to our new friends here, they've not come to us in order to spend excessive amounts of time talking about a psychotic loser. Please, let's get back to our main purpose, to educate and help writers work their ways through the PA mess. We have fine writers here, and they deserve no less.