johngalt

Thanks for the werd.
My advice - www.iuniverse.com
I had a literary agent shopping my book for four years.
Nothing.
Not surprising though. The publishing industry is hurting.
My book is never going to be mainstream.
The main character is a stoner
There is new publishing-on-demand technology that came out a few years back that is finally stabilizing. For a relatively small fee iuniverse.com adds me to their catalog after I upload the material to them. That gets you an ISBN number which means that any bookstore can find your book and order it. You are responsible for the PR. There is a decent royalty arrangement with the publisher. If you are looking for a publisher to pick you up and do a media campaign. You bettter commit a heinous crime or something because the only unknown authors that are getting picked up are the ones with some kind of name recognition. At least with iuniverse you have control over your marketing strategy. All you need is a little initiative.

thanks dude

Sad about the friend. THus is life...
I don't know what last email you misread. Refresh my memory?

Thanks for the condolences.
The whole misread thing is not worth rehashing but for the sake of clarity I will publicly embarass myself once again.
I sent you an email inviting you to the art show on Haley.
You responded saying that you were actually at the show, but some how I read it is a though you thought I was trying to fuck with you so I got all defensive. But then a couple days later I reread it and it occured to me that you were just saying how peculiar it was that I invited you to an event that you were at. That is why I am a dork.

Hahahahahahaha! I just got your email, and funny enough, my roommate/bestfriend is kind of dating one of the artists and I was there. Now I'm 'fraid. This is all getting a bit too weird!