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Offline CC27

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Getting a book published??
« on: July 15, 2009, 04:38:58 PM »
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tinkerbell41 (151 posts)      Wed Jul-15-09 04:00 PM
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Getting a book published??
 Anyone out there know how to get a book published??? Where to start? I figured I'd ask here first.
I have thought about it for 30+ yrs. My mom always pushed me to do it, she is gone now.
I have always told my co-workers I would be writing one, I just never could come up with the subject, or how to start. I had a lightbulb moment today, never happened before and I'm ready.
I've been typing like mad the words are just flowing, took a little break to reorganize my thoughts.
 


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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 05:17:24 PM »
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Anyone out there know how to get a book published???

Use the method employed by the DUmp's pre-eminent author, William Rivers Pitt.
Get Mom to write a check.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 06:06:56 PM »
So they've managed to knock together a Table of Contents, and are already looking for a publisher ?

Talk about counting chickens before they hatch.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 06:12:53 PM »
I suspet the twinkle toes primitive has a long ways to go.

franksolich as been writing a long time now, and hasn't ever been published.

The twinkle toes primitive has a long road to hike, if he's just got started.

Years, decades, generations.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 06:20:14 PM »
My mother - a retired Catholic school Principal, has been shopping a children's book series for years. This primitive better be willing to work HARD for publication, or be willing to fork over some cash to self-publish.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 06:23:20 PM »


It helps to have something that a normal human being - you know, one of those people who have MONEY to spend on books - would be interested in reading.

me thinks Tinkerbell - being a primitive - will have an extensive collection of rejection slips from publishers; assuming it makes it that far, that is.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 06:31:20 PM »
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It helps to have something that a normal human being - you know, one of those people who have MONEY to spend on books - would be interested in reading.
That is a point often overlooked. DUmmy Mythsaje's vanity-published pamphlets about mystical quests against dragons and demons are a case in point. DUmmy Mythsaje, without DUmmy Pitt's rich mother to foot the bill, lives a life of destitution and desperation, surrounded by cartons stacked upon cartons of unread (and virtually unreadable) self-published dreck. Still waiting for sales to explode as a by-product of making the DUmp's "greatest" page.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2009, 06:40:45 PM »
Quote from: CC27 on July 15, 2009, 04:38:58 PM


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An infinant number of monkeys in an infinant number of rooms with an infinante number of typewriters...DOES a DUmmy tomb make.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2009, 06:59:23 PM »
The title is 101 reasons why I hate Repukes.  :-)
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2009, 09:52:32 PM »
Quote from: PatriotGame on July 15, 2009, 06:40:45 PM
An infinant number of monkeys in an infinant number of rooms with an infinante number of typewriters...DOES a DUmmy tomb make.

I saw an article on FR today that said NYC was buying nearly a million $$ worth of typewriters for police depts.... not computers.... typewriters
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2009, 04:18:56 AM »
Quote from: FGL on July 15, 2009, 09:52:32 PM
I saw an article on FR today that said NYC was buying nearly a million $$ worth of typewriters for police depts.... not computers.... typewriters

Let's think about that one a tad.  They're worried about a computer hack.  Who would hack the NYPD computers?
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2009, 05:45:19 AM »
Quote from: FGL on July 15, 2009, 09:52:32 PM
I saw an article on FR today that said NYC was buying nearly a million $$ worth of typewriters for police depts.... not computers.... typewriters

Thats silly. Computers are only 'hackable' when they are online. Once that possibility is eliminated, they are pretty much secure.
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« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2009, 06:37:00 AM »
PUBLISH A BOOK!..think of the trees...oh, the horror...[invironmental/wacko/mode/off]
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2009, 07:14:13 AM »
Quote from: miskie on July 16, 2009, 05:45:19 AM
Thats silly. Computers are only 'hackable' when they are online. Once that possibility is eliminated, they are pretty much secure.

Yep, but even a secured shielded network has the potential for incidental access.  It's not a well known case, but Philadelphia's subway transit network was actually connected to the internet through a comcast wireless IP.  The guy that found the problem went home and accessed the network from his computer, before he reported it to the sytem.  The Comcast wireless network had picked up the signal, liked it and assigned an address.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2009, 07:54:07 AM »
Quote from: FGL on July 15, 2009, 09:52:32 PM
I saw an article on FR today that said NYC was buying nearly a million $$ worth of typewriters for police depts.... not computers.... typewriters

I heard it was because some forms are not computer compatible , but that makes no sense.  There are programs available that allow even scanned forms to be editable.
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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2009, 08:18:05 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 16, 2009, 07:54:07 AM
I heard it was because some forms are not computer compatible , but that makes no sense.  There are programs available that allow even scanned forms to be editable.

Guess they never heard of Adobe Acrobat.
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« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2009, 10:43:39 AM »
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I heard it was because some forms are not computer compatible , but that makes no sense.  There are programs available that allow even scanned forms to be editable.

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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2009, 02:05:16 PM »
Team Obumbler's new reforms for healthcare involve billions in typewriters.
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« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2009, 02:30:17 PM »
GOBUCKS and jukin, I'm not sure which of those two responses I like more.

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Re: Getting a book published??
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2009, 02:35:38 PM »
Quote from: jukin on July 16, 2009, 02:05:16 PM
Team Obumbler's new reforms for healthcare involve billions in typewriters.

Sure - Skin's island is filled with hundreds of monkeys to man the typewriters, as are a lot of the other primitive hangouts, so its a sensible investment.

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« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2009, 03:00:14 PM »
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I just never could come up with the subject, or how to start. I had a lightbulb moment today, never happened before and I'm ready.

How I Turned A Million in Real Estate into $25 in Cash.

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