Quote of the Day
Books, like paintings and sculptures and three-minute pop songs, are cultural creations, not slices of soul sent out into the market place.
--Stephen over at SBTB
--Stephen over at SBTB
more fun and hi-jinks at RWA.
To the Board of Directors of the Romance Writers of America: It has been brought to our attention, by several of our romance authors, that your organization no longer considers Medallion Press, Inc. a legitimate publisher according to your guidelines. We were surprised we did not receive official notification directly, but instead discovered it was posted on several RWA internet loops. Accordingly, we request this letter be published in its entirety in the RWR Report so all members may understand the nature of the process that eliminated Medallion as an RWA approved publisher. We will also send copies of this letter to all our own RWA member authors. We are dismayed you declared Medallion Press no longer a legitimate publisher. In July of 2004 we met all of your qualifications without incident by showing sales of 5000+ copies of USA Today Bestselling author Nan Ryan's The Last Dance. Several months prior to Book Expo America 2005, we received a call from your office alerting us to
Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty vast kind of generalization, right there.
Well, they could be *both*.
ReplyDeleteIt's not as elegant out of context. It summed up a whole argument and I liked it.
ReplyDeleteSo there.
Kate's Slice of Soul.
Well, Motown records are arguably slices of soul, but as Kate says, you need to see the sentence in context.
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it Kate.
. . . and you know the "so there" is silliness, yes?
ReplyDeleteThe world is full of bad feeling at the moment--I figure being clear is the way to go.
i like it...it's as deep as you need it to be....the 'so there" definitely strokes my inner child...
ReplyDeletedo they still use that term...inner child...oh who care ...ya got the drift eh ?????
Noooooooooo! It's my soul, I tell you, my soul!
ReplyDeleteSo happens my soul is full of wingless birds and high power rifle-toting boars and giant romance-loving spiders and porno-loving dogs and . . . you get the idea.