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publish or perish

Author:
John

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Date Posted: 21:17:55 09/13/02 Fri

Ken, I found a copy of Futures Magazine at Borders today. I was so proud to find your story there on the shelf for lucky people to discover. I wanted to buy a copy, but the cover price was an astounding $10.95, and I'm quite broke at the moment.

I'm curious as to why you use a pen name, especially when the small blurb about the author tells everyone your real name. It was great that they also mentioned your web serial. Ken, you have arrived! I'm so happy for you and very proud, as well. Now, about those film rights...

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[> Subject: Re: publish or perish

Author:
Jeff
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Date Posted: 08:51:58 09/15/02 Sun

Careful John, you start mentioning movie rights to DL, he breaks out in a cold sweat, the walls seem to be closing in on him, the floor of his condo seems to slip at an angle like a Batman's villian lair, and he hears a ringing in his ears. I've seen DL start to peer out the living room window, sure of himself that a chimp, wearing a a business suit,smoking a cigar, and carries merchandising contracts from Hollywood conglomerates. I'm familiar with Hollywood using human albino contract hounds, but his chimp visions shows his psychalogical fragilty when the subject of expansion and franchise potentials from movies to gameboys to apparell merchandising.
Its best to just respond with "Thats nice DL, thats very nice. Its a good thing." Anything else can lead to DL perceiving you as an 'agent' of corruption. I recommend John that you retrack your statement before DL starts hallucinating that you resemble Lancelot Link.

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Re: publish or perish

Author:
Jeff
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Date Posted: 15:37:38 09/17/02 Tue

This sucks!! I went to Borders today...sure enough they don't sell FUTURES here in the midwest. Apparently there is some boycott taking place as the magazine seems to not print stories about or taking place in Wisconsin, therefore the Wisconsin franchise owners have joined forces to make their stand. So, I can't get it AND Futures website doesn't allow for check purchases AND I couldn't find an address to receive check orders. Those people need to get their acts together and pronto.

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Re: publish or perish

Author:
DL aka Ken
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Date Posted: 21:24:15 09/22/02 Sun

>Ken, I found a copy of Futures Magazine at Borders
>today. I was so proud to find your story there on the
>shelf for lucky people to discover. I wanted to buy a
>copy, but the cover price was an astounding $10.95,
>and I'm quite broke at the moment.

I know, don't worry. I am going to buy all of you a copy and mail them out. (I get a discount)

>I'm curious as to why you use a pen name, especially
>when the small blurb about the author tells everyone
>your real name.

There's already an author that goes by the unremarkable moniker of Ken Foster. Can you believe it? It's probably a pseudonym, too. Anyway, I like the way it sounds.

>It was great that they also mentioned
>your web serial.

Actually, I wrote that, marketing genius that I am.

>Ken, you have arrived! I'm so happy
>for you and very proud, as well. Now, about those film
>rights...

I'd like to thank the Academy of Obscure Fiction Anthology Magazines for this honor...