We may be working quietly away but we can turn on you the minute if you ask us an inane question about what we are doing. "What's taking so long? It's just a bunch of sex scenes."ĭon’t be messing with writers. My wife loves these crummy little books." Or my second favorite, when my mother gave one of her books - a Harlequin regency - to a man who lived across the alley from her, he said. Did you do it myself or did you have to pay someone to make it? My personal favorite - when I showed my father the cover for my first mystery, he said, quote, very nice. Or "When are you going to publish a REAL book?" When are you actually going to get something published.” Totally! If you count a hobby which consumes your waking thoughts, absorbs your free time and no so free time, requires promotion, and personal credibility. Then bust their ass trying to sell it and kill themselves promoting it. I’d like to see these people sit down and sweat through a manuscript. Mine, mine, mine! I want to do evil things to them. Does that shoot anyone else’s blood pressure up? What pisses me off is when people refer to my writing as a 'nice hobby'. Some well know Ellora’s Cave and Cerridwen Press writers recently vented their spleen…. To have a spit or spit the dummy – is to get angry, to stamp your feet and to let someone know they have pissed you off.
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