Suckerrrrrrrrrrrrrr for punishment (Yeah, that's me)

[callistra]

The deal:

There is a publishing house in America claiming to be a real publishing house but displaying all the characteristics of a vanity press. The publishing house has apparently made a few digs at some SF and F authors, who got together and wrote a chapter each of the worst schlock they could manage, put it together and send it in to see if they would take they bait. They did. For more info, check out Aki's post. My favourite paragraph so far (after all the wincing over "mis-placed" apostrophes....

All her life Margaret had worked hard, harder than anyone else. Her sisters, all of them far more beautiful than she, had coasted through life like a toboggan down the snow hill of life.

I can see I am going to have to torture you all with this marvellous monstrosity during my readings. Be prepared. If you are lucky, I will use LJ cuts. If they are truly awesomely awful, I won't!!!

This kind of reminds me of "Night Travels of the Elven Vampire" which I would still probably kill to get a copy of. Just for personal purposes of course. *grin*

I love the idea of vanity presses which are truly vain. *grin*

Comments

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

try chapter 32


Noone wanted to write it, apparently, so they fed bits of it into an automatic text generator and had the computer write it ;)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I wuv this interweb.
LOL
I'm surprised they didn't just skip it. I was reading another lady sent in a manuscript that was the same 30 pages over and over and over, and still got an offer of publication. Good to see their "editing staff" keeping up their reading skills.

[radiumlabs.livejournal.com]

NO they could not do that really ? How can i be shocked anymore.

"Night Travels of the Elven Vampire"

[aceris.livejournal.com]

Just the mere mention of that 'book' still makes me giggle ;)

Re: "Night Travels of the Elven Vampire"

[callistra.livejournal.com]

It was a great review.
:-)