Sixty dumshits

[R. Richard]

Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help' Turned Down 60 Times Before Becoming a Best Seller.

Authors, we need to get a list of the 60 dumshits who turned down an award winning novel. Business licenses need to be revoked. Perhaps the stocks should again be used. Nailed to a large wooden cross? How about slashed with a shiv? (I put that last in, just to piss off Sr71plt.)

 

[sr71plt]

That sounds like sour grapes from someone who can't get a response from any agents.

A constitutionally glued guy like you should agree that no agent or publisher has a responsibility to pick up any work they don't want to.

This is hardly the first time this has happened.

 

[R. Richard]

A constitutionally glued guy like you should agree that no agent or publisher has a responsibility to pick up any work they don't want to.

This is hardly the first time this has happened.

There are those who mine gold. The process is well known and has been going on for a very long time. However, those who throw away the gold and keep dirt are considered to be insane. Apparently, you consider that it's okay for the publishing business to, so to speak, throw away the gold and keep the dirt. An interesting viewpoint, but I wouldn't state it publically.
Sixty dumshits rejected not just a novel worthy of publication, but a best seller that's being made into a major movie. I do accept the right of said dumshits to reject what they don't want. I would, however, like a list of said dumshits, so that none of us Literotica authors has to waste time submitting work to said dumshits.
Although, it's not specifically stated in the US constitution, as far as I know, it's a common enough legal proceding to place the assets of those deemed, by a court of law, to be incompetent to handle said assets, under the control of an administrator. This situation seems to cry out for a professional administrator. JMHO.

 

[sr71plt]

It's like you know sooo much about agents and legitimate publishers.

I didn't actually think that you would uphold your hanging on every word of the Constitution if it didn't suit you.

Of course agents and publisher have the right to choose for themselves what they consider gold--or, more specifically, what fits the specific hole they have in their current offerings.

If you were so hot for individual rights (or had half a brain), you would support their right to use their money and time as they see fit too.

And, again, there's nothing much new in missing the take-off book.

 

[sr71plt]

You really do have anger issues, don't you. RR?

 

[cloudy]

Those who live in glass houses really shouldn't throw stones.

"Dumb" is spelled this way. Just sayin'.

 

[autoplot]

However, those who throw away the gold and keep dirt are considered to be insane. Apparently, you consider that it's okay for the publishing business to, so to speak, throw away the gold and keep the dirt.

People buy "dirt" off the bookshelves all the time.

 

[R. Richard]

I have my opinion in the matter of the 60 rejections of a best seller novel. I feel that the root of the problem is a US educational system that turns out functional illiterates with disgusting regularity. (Yes, I do know how to solve the problem, at less cost than the present system.) I expressed my opinion and I believe that it's my right to do so. Several of you have a different opinion. I would support your right to your opinion, if you didn't insist upon my helping to finance a system that turns out 'dumshits.'
(I feel that the current US government is basically a bunch of idiots who are mismanaging the US into financial ruin. To back my opinion, I short the USD and the EUR (Euro) via currency trading. I'm making a very nice dollar doing that, thank you very much. How are you supporters of the current US government doing with your long USD positions?)

 

[sr71plt]

There you go. That's where being hate-filled and closed-minded gets you.

Just put a gun in hands like these, and we'll have an anger-filled, nut-job mass-killing on our hands. Best we keep him here on an erotica forum foaming at the mouth on issues unrelated to erotica to keep him impotent in the real world.

 

[michchick98]

There are those who mine gold. The process is well known and has been going on for a very long time. However, those who throw away the gold and keep dirt are considered to be insane. Apparently, you consider that it's okay for the publishing business to, so to speak, throw away the gold and keep the dirt. An interesting viewpoint, but I wouldn't state it publically.
Sixty dumshits rejected not just a novel worthy of publication, but a best seller that's being made into a major movie. I do accept the right of said dumshits to reject what they don't want. I would, however, like a list of said dumshits, so that none of us Literotica authors has to waste time submitting work to said dumshits.
Although, it's not specifically stated in the US constitution, as far as I know, it's a common enough legal proceding to place the assets of those deemed, by a court of law, to be incompetent to handle said assets, under the control of an administrator. This situation seems to cry out for a professional administrator. JMHO.

And your post seems to cry out for a professional spell checker.

JMHO.

publically = publicly

dumshits = dumbshits

proceding = proceeding