bikrpreacher
Banned
There is only one good review left. Oh, I see, a review has to be GOOD to be removed fast, oh, silly me I didn't understand that. This is crazy, what's amazon thinking?
Dolan said:I can not accept your terms. "Just don't spend it all in one place" is an ill disguised attempt to try and control any decision that I may make regarding the $0.96. DON'T TAKE THAT TONE WITH ME.
Snarker
akaa1a said:Well Sher2,
Look at it this way, PA has a captive income stream with 200 authors rowin' the boat. I think it's odd that they are letting an author control the purse strings, or am I reading this all wrong.
Bet this contract will be hard to extract themselves from when the boat springs a leak!
7 out of 200 happy authors!
pike bishop said:sadly last night in a hial of gun fire travis was cut down and is no longer with the living he lived hard and died hard he was given to the earth after a simple service while going thru his personal items we came across something that has changed our minds in this battle a book that has carsed us to change sides we was riding on ! as of this day there is no longer a travis army all actions on there part is over we will no longer make anti publishamerica statements of any kind we have sent both in hard copy and e mail to publishamerica the errors of our ways 2 the books that we attacked from publishamerica we will no longer attack and will make every effort to post this on there web sites and the publishamerica web sit which publishamerica management has so kindly allowed to do 3 the anti publishamerica group who hired us will be turned over to the feds tomarrow with full text of emails and battle plans as well as a list of spies within the publishamerica group 4 ..........
Sher2 said:You know, akaa1a, you raise an excellent point. I hadn't even thought of it from that perspective -- mainly because I try not to think of it at all. With 200 contributors, there's a built-in customer base of 200 right there. Then, each of those 200 has a parent, sibling, spouse, second cousin twice removed, and a friend or two to peddle to. They're looking at a cool 400 sales before the thing even comes off the printer and starts resonating. Gee, was there ever any remote possibility that PA would have refused this sweetheart deal?
Sher2 said:Ooops, there I go with that dang tone thang again. So I guess you want, like, an apology for the ill advised drama and misinformed escapade? Dream on, dude! How you spend your proceeds is the only thing I have any control over.
"Escapade" is one of those words formatted into PA form letters. Apparently, anyone who sees things differently from that which the Big 3 hath decreed is guilty of going on an escapade. And not to worry, I promise to be gentle, regardless of what you blow that 96 cents on.Dolan said:Well, I was going to ask, er I mean demand an apology but I couldn't spell it. I don't know what a misinformed escapade is so I didn't bring it up. Oh sure, I wanted to.
Please, remember that I too am a PAauthor and be gentle with me.
Sure you can!P. S. I'm a 63 year old burnout. I can't be "dude".
Humor is Subjective
This is just hysterical. I love the "...my IQ hovers in the 180s" deal. Per IQ scales:, February 25, 2005
Reviewer:Katherine (Little Rock, Arkansas) - See all my reviews
While I have the ability to recognize, enjoy, admire, etc. various types of humor, I must admit I am completely baffled by the location of anything comic in this book. I have been unable to find any humor in this work, and it is not because I am too dense to "get it." I am a member of Mensa and my IQ hovers in the 180s. However, I do recognize that there are many different types of people in the world who might enjoy the message of this book. I simply would not recommend it in the category of humor. It is a personal yarn, or saga given the length. I would recommend this book for people who have absolutely nothing better to read, at all. But if you are searching for reading more worthy than this, I suggest the back of a cereal box or your lawnmower instruction booklet.
reph said:Is it possible to locate a flesh-and-blood entity at Amazon, as opposed to a zeroes-and-ones entity, and describe what's going on with the reviews?
I managed the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund for three years. Money donated goes into interest-free loans, which are given to writers who have medical emergencies and no other way to pay their bills. Though they are loans, there is generally no repayment schedule and people are expected to pay the money back when they have it.Renee Bagley said:So, are ya'll saying sales from "Atlanta Nights" are going to charity to the SFWA?
Thanks for the link to SWFA, I just looked it up.