Showing posts with label literary agents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literary agents. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 August 2019

THE ENDEAVOURS

A long time ago now I had a friend who was not very bright, and that is putting it mildly.

He was viewed as someone that was unemployable and would never get a job while I was viewed as someone that would achieve many things.

Since we lost contact I have ..


  • Been to College
  • On to University
  • Screwed over by Uni after turning down a PhD working in medicine
  • GCHQ were later interested in offering me a job as was the MoD
  • Symptom after symptom I was told could not possibly be linked but later proved they were, took 13 years plus
  • Realised corruption
  • Gathered evidence on corruption
  • Ignored by Fake News, including the irrefutable proof
  • Wrote a book based on facts about said corruption ..
  • Had single literary agents show shock and said I needed a much bigger agency
  • Bigger agencies went 'meh'
  • Started blogging and attracting viewers at a fast rate
  • Then numbers starting behaving suspiciously
  • Started up several other blogs in things that are not only popular but I know a lot about .. cycling miles and spending a lot of money to do it, likely over £40,000
  • Government eyes lit up at my numbers offered to help .
  • Then pulled support
  • Then my ad revenue froze
  • Then my YouTube numbers were played with and was so damn obvious you had to be an moron to do this they way that they did
  • Then I went to Twitter .. and there ..
  • Followers raced past  my Blog follower numbers in three weeks, in what had taen my 6 years on Blogger
  • Then those numbers started playing up
  • Then I was targeted by large organisations hell bent on getting me off Twitter
  • For telling the truth
  • During this whole period of what is now 8 years I have had no benefit, no support and zero money
  • Also during all this I tried to get help and justice with my disability, yes I am disabled
  • Organisations, Doctor and others would react with shock and anger at finding out what had been occurring
  • Then, like my going self-employed and without reason help was pulled at the 13th or 25th hours
  • Even my daughter said WE was being targeted
  • She has been abused several times in all this time
  • During this time through a realisation and gathering of evidence ..
  • Worked with GCHQ and MI5 and other than a phone-call later telling me I am a genius .. it was rather one sided and I got no .. reward nor acknowledgement for it
  • Recorded Police Detectives taking my statement concerning the above .. was called a genius at the end of the five hour ordeal
  • Posted that on here ..
  • She was a grooming gang and domestic violence victim
  • Stabbed in the back, lied to, persecuted and bullied off Twitter during all this by social workers and Police
  • Lies were told not to pay money for her, even having cervical cancer, or her three special needs children
  • One child was given to his paedophile father and taught to say 'F*ck Jesus' when he met his mother
  • They confiscated two cars for no reason, one of which I bought for her
  • Media Agent found out about one court case .. said he would end all her worries .. financially .. promised books, magazine series and TV series .. pulls at the 11th hour
  • Take A Break Magazine offers to do a Go Fund Me .. pulls at the 11th hour
  • Meanwhile on social media I see a great many people telling very obvious lies in books, newspapers and on TV and yet ..
  • They get highly paid for it?!
Now here is the thing ..

It is of no doubt to even the Doubting Thomases any more that I know, I have mad MANY apologies, that I was right and that I have been targeted for many years and have had someone .. somewhere .. stepping and and thwarting any plans to.

So why have none of the names successfully met me?

If I was so bad and so wrong .. and while being able to reach so many people, because their attempts to thwart me just had me come up with alternatives, why not take me to court and get their fake news to cover me?

Meanwhile I am now back to trying to up my high resolution photographs for the photography side of my plans they screwed up in 2017. Not without issues, pain, failure three times in a row once and heart issues .. not to mention anxiety and difficulty travelling through s motion sickness that was ignored by the NHS for 8 years!

I have been blocked by Lord Adonis, Labour Left Voice, Mike Stuchbery, Owen Jones, Professor Brian Cox and many others.

They do NOT like me talking up Donald Trump at all, nor grooming gangs and not climate change despite the fact I am very obviously only interested in the truth and therefore the facts.

I have been hammering Jeremy Corbyn in recent times as well as John McDonnell and consistently have asked them if they have explained that wrong-thought leads to wrong-vote and would mean they would do away with elections?

I have consistently asked this to put the question into people's heads and have done this for many months.

I have slowly watched them drop in the polls .. to about fourth and dropping .. I am also a headache to the leftists in America, Hillary Clinton, Ilhan Omar and friends along with Momentum and Hope Not Hate and others.

Since I have been on Minds.com my followers raced up to 997 .. then dropped three months ago by 200 and then only crawled upwards. First three months I get 997 .. next three months I do not manage to acquire 203 to get over 1,000?

GAB also raced up and then stopped a few months ago and has since only crawled upwards .. should have gone over 2,000 three months ago and not reached 1,800.

Same as Twitter, except thats now over 6,000 .. 

Only one this has not occurred on is Parler.

Just a coincidence? Yeah people and computers do not work like that and now Twitter has changed and no one can keep track of tweets, even their own! I claim this in intentional and the thread goes mad .. many likes and there in lies the rub ..

My likes grow all the time and yet my followers do not and I am afraid to say that these are linked .. always say the same things .. about the same subjects .. about the same people.

The numbers have diverse enough, them being incompetent, that its obvious that they are messing with them.

So the only conclusion I hope people reach from all this is that they are scared of me either telling the truth and due to the way I come across more and more people will believe it ..

.. or that I will realise the truth in something and people will believe it?

Out of ..

  • Marxist agenda
  • Globalists Agenda
  • Climate Change and Global Cooling/Ice Age
  • Grooming Gangs and Muslim Migrants
  • Or perhaps all of the above?
I often ask myself if I will EVER .. find the answer?!

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

CAP IN HAND TO HELPERS

OK then I will put up this one for now and to show what I am doing right now.

As plans 'A' and 'B' have not worked out yet, due to time for the former and God knows what to the latter, I am trying something else.

I suppose in a way it kind of works out this way as I have referenced these kinds of people previously and on several occasions.

There are many out there, organisations that is, that offer to help and claim to help people in tricky situations and plenty of them claiming to help disabled people.

Although in my experience, the same with charities, I have always ended up being ASKED FOR A DONATION than being offered help.

Also it is high time, now that I have gathered mountains of evidence, to approach for legal representation. If your the enemy I want to sue ... NO I HAVE NOT APPROACHED BEFORE! Well that is not since I started blogging.

There is this unfair 'Statute Of Limitations' to get around and they will no doubt ask me why I had not approached a legal firm before ... except for that I did!

As everyone seemed to both be lazy and not realise that if they had bothered to spend one hour with me they would realise it was an open and shut case, as I would not prove to be found dishonest in court, I did not get anywhere at all.

So I set out to get a whole raft of evidence as I did not want to get to a meeting the next time only to fail at that hurdle. I wanted to leap all hurdles laid out before me and so I continued on until I got between 6 and 12 from each and every one of them.

I far surpassed these figures with many of those that have failed to do as they are paid to do by the British taxpayer. Because this flawed attempt to save money has only cost the taxpayer ten times more over time at a minimum.

Do not pay to fix people now and you will pay to keep people for year after year until financial ruin is upon you.

Oh, wait?

LMAO!

So I am approaching legal firms, charities and literary agents but the last one has not gotten very far and also another industry full of not very bright people. Quite naive, in fact, in many cases and really need to go back to school to learn mathematics.

As they all seemed to be obsessed with money and things that cannot lose they should therefore be bloody good with their mathematics.

If they were then maybe they would stop wasting their time looking for the next JK Rowling and Harry Potter type series that will no doubt be a copy and would not make a single percentage point of what JK Rowling has achieved.

I have also had to apologise for my videos as my SIXTH camera took a tumble and I thought it was OK but pictures are fuzzy and when shooting video the lens vibrates.

Yes, yes I should have replaced this last year but I was helping someone else out. I did think I would get some funds back from the endeavour to get a replacement but it has not happened. Now is the time this becomes important as the Spring is finally here and Summer not far behind!

I should get something about two weeks from today but I am at a loss to pay more and go skint, and I have to already to replace this damned thing, or pay less and get other things I need too?!

I used a Sony with a 50x zoom lens and do I pay under £300 for one of two cameras in the region of 65x zoom or closer to £450 for an 83x zoom?

I need this to continue getting films for my YouTube channel and pictures for my blogs and as many of these are animals, especially birds, the bigger zoom is vastly more appealing! I am sure people taking pictures and films of birds and avid bird watchers would fully understand. In fact ANY animal expert would totally understand my predicament.

So things are moving, the weather is turning milder and I am becoming more animated, at long last, and after hobbling to the nearest ATM on the FIFTH day of back pain with my walking stick being the only thing that got me there, the pain finally subsided.

Mind you, it did get too much and I piled on 150mg of Tramadol on top of the 100mg I left the house on! Well it was either that or phone for an ambulance while out but it makes no difference because in the eyes of health professionals your wrong whichever of these you decide to do. The exact same applies to the government and they have been trying extremely hard to get that into the mindset of the British people.

This is what Iain Duncan-Smith was getting at by stating you risk splitting the nation down the middle. Except they have already been doing that which, provided your not a complete moron, most people noticed by the choices made in the last general election?

By this I mean Scotland and England. The Scots looked like they wanted out and the English in turn voted for that which Scotland hates. AT least that is they way it appeared to me as even I did not see the Tories getting in the way they did. In fact I did not see them getting in at all.

See? I do not always get it right! But it does turn out to be a rare thing, me being wrong and I do not like being wrong while at the same time have no fear in holding my hands up and admitting when I am wrong. But then did I not just do that?

LMAO!

Here is a video of a few letters sent off which may help others with the addresses on the envelopes ...


As I stated ... errr ... somewhere this is WAVE 2, waved one I completely forgot to record!!
Oh well.

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

LITERALLY THE LITERARY

There have been a few things I have been waiting for a long, long time to start.

This one was waiting for my to take a trip out of town for a month or two. That kept getting delay after delay and now is not happening at all. So there is something that is not occurring along with this endeavour but there is some hope that it will within a matter of weeks.

However I will still not be out of town.

Now I will follow this up with updates as things progress, or go sideways or go backwards and likely the last two, which is why I am posting this endeavour up.

I have absolutely no doubt that there will be hoards of people that will feel some emotion or other like familiarity, recalling disappointment and confusion. I know because I had this before.

When I did this last time, four years back, things were confusing.

If you have not worked it out by now I o not like confusing and I do not like being left in the dark, I tend to get really miffed bout it. Lol.

So what I decided to do, without the other things taking place or occurring ... well not to my knowledge and not yet, I typed up a report regarding everything I do, everything I have done, all my blogs and all my subjects.

Of course this is primarily about all my data and the corruption.

I decided to test the water and sent off a wave of letters, less than half a dozen I think.

I then decided to send of s second wave of around eight or more and then filmed the envelopes upside down, in the video below, and then post about what I was about to do. Sort of an analysis and a piss take of those that think themselves a cut above those that go cap in hand to them.

Yeaahh they are not going to like it.

But they will only have themselves to blame.

Well some are not going to like it.

Now what riled me previously was this same thing I get ion a lot of professional industries, even below that of the professionals themselves, of this attitude that there way is the only way to do things, should be obvious, attitude that everyone does it the same way.

The problem with this attitude? All three attitudes are completely and utterly wrong and everyone that has contacted more than one literary agent will know that even font types, sizes, line spacing and even which chapters they want will differ from one agent or agency to the next.

Morons.

Well ... morons, if they have that attitude and more so when they are patronizing.

Now for me literary agents started to pop up because publishers become too big for their boots and I remember being totally confused that you would not speak to the publishers directly as an author. How effing insane that is.

It appeared to me when I become embroiled in this that the agencies were becoming too big for their own boots and I wondered how many years away we were before Literary Agents Agents started popping up? Literary Agents Agents Agents, anyone?

If I wanted to buy an Aston Martin I would not say, 'No I do not want to deal with you, can you end the car over to a Ford showroom and I will buy it from them?' LOL! Or vice-versa.

Although I expected to report a particular thing I did not expect it to happen so soon and I expected only to report in in part two ...

But what with a six page report and a three page letter there is no way that anyone could answer what I sent off already, which is one reason I like to do things in waves. But they have.

Meaning?

They did not read the included report and certainly failed to visit a single blog that I provided them?

This literary agency also stated it was not a subject they do, which is quite bizarre because all the agencies I have on my list were specifically picked out because they publish non-fiction.

Remember my subjects? Corruption, Amphibians, Reptiles, Fish, Computer Science, Astronomy, Self Help, Orchids, Photography, Music and films among other things.

So along with sending a reply far too quickly, that is idiotic Bell Lomax, I also od not fit into their non-fiction criteria and they never bothered to look at a single blog?

How do these people make money?

Actually as I typed that I wondered if things with one companies might be some sort of tax front? It is inconceivable that someone that not only has my broad spectrum of knowledge, done all this with my blog and still going would be dismissed so quick by so called literary professionals?

Maybe some people just make a living only acting as agents for mimicry authors that take something that ha made tens of millions, like Harry Potter, and settle for a tiny percentage of that with each publication?

There is a whole bloody library or hugely popular things and it turns my stomach when I see people mimic other things and even in the title ... I simply want to throw up.

I saw the title "Fifty Shades Of Black" somewhere the other day and was like "WHAT?! REALLY?!"

Someone said to me the other day how hard it is to get published and I said "You ever been in a bookshop or library? How many things do you walk straight past? How many really crap books get published?" he said "Yeah, that's true!"

I do not right crap! Or lies of fabrication!

I said from the beginning this blog was a series of traps.

I also mentioned several times throughout that some of the industries would not be dealt with until the end. The other one has been falling into said traps all along and like everything else, because for some reason people do not believe or act upon one single thing alone, I had to do this and keep doing it year after bloody year until I had enough to make things incontrovertible.

If people could be bothered to look.

Which is kind of ironic if they do not because it is one giant self help book regarding almost everything! LMAO!

This Roccat Ryos MK Pro professional keyboard I have because PC Worel (there)sold me a refurbished and badly dammaged (there) (Solid aluminium plate) Corsair Vengeance K70 Keyboad. For the past month this Roccat has being missing keystrokes, adding keystrokes and drivingg (there) me up the effing wall.

You cannot even buy professional stuff without getting crap!


Friday, 8 August 2014

THE AUTHORS & THE AMAZONIANS

I was speaking to two friends recently about how I completed three books, many others stated but not finished, and how the publishing world is a nightmare.

I explained how literary agents seem to be only looking for the next Harry Potter, Star Wars or some other rip off of an adjust five theme or format. Or they are only interested drivel about celebrities lives because there are no end of people that seem to think that this is the be all sand end all to their lives?

Well maybe not drivel at times but only a tiny fraction of them for me.

Instead of championing something new, bold and that which can possibly cause a riot, metaphorically speaking, they look for similar things to that already done that made the most cash? It does not work like that! Everyone knows that the sequels are never as popular as the first film so why would you look for a blatant rip off? It's bloody dumb in my estimation!

But they do!

Then you have these self publishing outfits who will contact wannabe authors and praise their writing, despite responding so quickly it's obvious they have not read a single damned word of it! Sharks then!

In my discussions over my blog I do explain that one hope I had was that interest in the books I wrote, which are both forerunners to this blog, would eventually cause a literary agent or publisher to want to read them?

Added to this the fact that I had 140,000 visitors and counting and over half a million to my Google Plus profile would help matters?

I also explained that since I started this blog I had not approached a single person regarding the publication of any of my three books and that even lately it has not crossed my mind and I had not thought due one moment about doing so. I am not even sure when I would do?!

Possibly when my oldest blog, two weeks shy of being two years old, had acquired 100,000 visitors in total? It had around 38,000 to go to reach that milestone. I have not worked out how long that would take either!
I have never thought about approaching Amazon about publication either but that's because the old traditionalist in me, despite my BSc in Applied Computing, likes the idea of paper based books! This surprised many fellow students at University when a debate was held over Digital Libraries! They had me down in the digital books camp.

So it generated a bit of interest when I spotted this report regarding a disagreement between Amazon and a publisher over the pricing of books. First off I immediately assumed Amazon was in the wrong due to their behaviour of late over several things, corporation tax being one. But as I read it seemed that the publishing house were trying to keep the cost of the books artificially high which despite the lack of overhears want to increase their profit margin?

What it does not explain is how the cut that Amazon takes compares to the costs of overheads for publishing paper based books!

As for authors well many have signed an open letter to be published in a famous tabloid to state quite clearly to Amazon that they are disappointed in them, their greed and their tactics and to stop it at once, in a round about way. Though some authors declined to sign this petition.

But then another wave of authors have actually signed a letter in defence of Amazon?! Hmm I wonder if they are fully aware of their tactics?

This could turn out to be an iron clad example of how people make snap decisions without possessing all the facts? The very reason that my corruption blog exists!

It matters not that life is to busy or that the time cannot be found because this is how the evil ones get away with things. They use these excuses and in all honesty if you cannot take ... no afford the time to take stock of certain things out situations then we are doing something very wrong. Perhaps we have been for a very long time and doing these things fur so long they have just become the accepted norm?!

I think it's time to take stock and say no more! Because as more and more situations like this arrives those that make snap decisions may end up feeling and more importantly looking very foolish indeed!

We are in the age of the Internet where everyone gets to find out everything ... eventually! You cannot hide anymore or have lane excuses. It's time to realise that bit bothering can have very adverse effects on what you do ... or even what you earn?!

Many may not agree and this is their prerogative but then so are the pitfalls and punishments if you gamble and get it wrong!

There are many whispers going around that many seem to believe are true facts of the most unlikely people. They may or may not be trying to control things getting out and most of this is via the tabloids and TV News media. If this is the case I can assure you that this is a mistake, non greater than the news media groups that may have decided to do add they are commanded, regardless of the benefits that may be on offer. The truth will out in the end.

When this eventually happens then I am afraid to say that I stated this king before now but a while row of houses made of cards will all be blown to the ground by the incoming storm!

In the meantime I will try to remember this story and see what occurs once the open letter has been published? They seem to be selecting authors to punish to get back at the publisher which is not fair no matter which way you slice it.

Friday, 31 January 2014

THE AUTHOR OF BAD TIMINGS

LMFAO you will find this one funny...

Now having reached the one hundred thousand post I was thinking if the things that will likely happen this year and wondering whether to just WAIT for them or actually find some time to contact them myself.

One of those was literary agents and/or publishers.

I was about to close down my hotmail page when I spotted something and was half way through a bottle of Krystal, metaphorically speaking of course, when I read the whole thing...


I mean yeah I figured that if I was at this long enough that maybe sonmeone would be interested in printing my stuff?

I mean I did all this that is on here, I wrote three books, two on all this and can write a third too. I have attracted 100,000 visitors and this is rising all the time. I had long planned to try and break into being an author!

However I never thought in a million years it would be about politics and corruption! I never dreamed I would be running around recording all of these corrupt and lying people either! Hell, I did not even know the corruption was as bad nor as widespread as it was!

If someone had come to me ten years ago spouting all this I would have dismissed them as crazy. Well that is why I decided years ago to record it all before making a right tit of myself online, lol.

I had started writing a multi book science fiction set as that was what I always wanted to do, and would you believe it five chapters into that books I still posess the public services come along again and turn my life upside woen and yes I was a Fibromyalgia sufferer nback then and long before. Cheers NHS, lol.

Just for a moment there and just at the worst possible time I get sent this damned email, fancy sending emails out to aspiring authros with the words "three book deal offer"? Especially to someone that has WRITTEN three books and techinically can write three and have long stated as much on here all in the corrption area?!

I just had the bloody other email about being a Senior Medical Writer too?! Lol, are they taking numbers and getting in line?! Bring it...ON!!!

LMAO!

It is that PESKY test once again, naff off!! Lol!

Sunday, 19 January 2014

THE 2014 ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Right will we will just make a little note about this statement about how it is all over and we have turned a corner as far as the economy is concerned.

I have heard this so many times in the last three years or so it's annoying.

But this particular one states that it is not just Britain but the entire world that had turned a corner?!

So as we are still in January 2014 and this states growth for this year I thought I would post it up.

To be honest it is hardly putting your neck in the line to say this about the UK as we have had growth figures despite the fact I do not see it and neither does anyone else and is so small it is laughable. It is not putting your neck out because even if the numbers remain the same this will still be classed as growth but still not feel like it.

To be honest if figures remained like this I seriously doubt I would notice an improvement until around the time I am due a pension or have about 5 years to go,  lol.

A sudden and fast growth meaning it would take only a couple of years to get seriously going again for people to notice and I would financially benefit from this, literally. Plus it would rise very fast too!

Several times I have considered placing a donation button on here and have mentioned this several times. I considered it then decided I would give it a month then out it up here and then changed my mind, lol.

I thought about putting one on this month and changed my mind...again. A change in the economic recovery for the better and at an increased speed means I would never ever consider that damned button ever again!

But as anyone that has followed and read enough of this blog already knows I just do not think that will happen. Not anyone soon and that is two years before the growth increases significantly enough to notice.

Of course there are several other possibilities of turning my 18 months of work and three written books into a good financial gain but...

1) There are financial difficulties with most people
2) Some staff of certain... Industries do not know as much as they think
3) Certain companies you should be making money from are con artists and sit on their arses making billions while you work for years for FREE!!
4) NO PRIZES FOR GUESSING WHO NUMBER 3 IS ABOUT! LOL!

There are also many other possibilities too but all the possibilities are just educated guesses and I really do not know how long each will take.

1) The entire blog is a giant CV you could say.
2) There are several things that could convince a solicitor to offer me their services.
3) It could also appeal to literary agents and publishers for two subjects I have written books on.
4) It could appeal to literary agents for half a dozen OTHER subjects I have YET to write books for.

Of course what you have to factor into all this,  which some jealous types and slow working types have not, is that the more people that visit and read the more visitors I get of each of the industries I will paint appeal to.

Obviously I know realise that they would have needed to have read enough as well as listened to enough to make then realize they had something her on their hands,  or right under their noses so too speak, lol.

They also would likely need to see this also of my dozen different blogs on different subjects, or even the four other subjects I might start blogs in this year?!

Of course this benefits me once there are two or more of each type and each one then wonders if any others in their field will beat them past the post?! Lol.

Of course there is the negative aspect or flaw of all my ideas asking these lines...that I only speak to moral and compassionate people and there are simply very few out there?! One in a thousand? One in a hundred thousand?! One in a million?! Lol.

For any others I likely just scare the living daylights out of them.

Still it is the very start of 2014 and I have attracted a little under 100,000 and rises by several thousand each week. In a few months time this week be rising by 10,000 per week and then after time 20,000 each week.

So I and my blogs are well on their way to teaching some very big numbers indeed. I do not know how big the numbers well be or even when. But there is a little under a year to go and of course there are dozens of possibilities in that time that can make things move along much faster...

1) More people realise the facts are actually that and it goes viral
2) My factual stories hit tabloids and/or TV news and it goes viral
3) The currently being covered FOI requests show the real facts and comparisons and it goes viral
4) Someone I have covered, have secret studio from our letter from hits the news and everyone ends up on my posts about them
5) Several Literary Agents take notice of the blog and I get an offer
6) Several solicitors take notice of the injustices along with the facts and I get an offer

Of course it is still pie in the sky... Except there is only one sky and a fair few pies! But then regulars do know I like to stack the cards in my favour,  so too speak lol.

Global economy 'at turning point' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25741060

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

THE NURSING OF AN AUTHOR

Its if funny how things go sometimes.

This is the first time in a few weeks I have typed out a post as I am doing now! It is the way I prefer but seem to have trouble getting around to doing. I am on my laptop which I have not spent an evening on for a week or two and each time I have not gotten around to posting on a few of my blogs though the material is there?!

Most of my blogs of late have been done on my iPhone 4S which is linked to my faulty Motorola as I can now do much of my typing without want to smash the faulty Motorola provided to me by Very to smithereens! Cool!

Now there is a local lady I know that used to be a nurse and she is a regular customer in my friends store. Her daughter was on the some drug as me, Gabapentin, and just like me it started off very good and then rapidly went down hill after a couple of months. Even right now I am feeling ill and this is down to the drug, though I have dropped the dosage now from 900mg to just one 300mg pill before I go out! But it STILL makes me ill and light headed. Angry about the fact they gave it to me KNOWING that I cycle is an understatement. The lady I refer to I know not her name but would not state her real name here anyway. After a chat where I told her what I had experienced and what I had collected she asked for this blogs address along with a couple of others. Of course I provided her with it and thought how interesting it would be over time to have someone who was previously a nurse study what I have here?

That was a few months back now.

Several days back I was outside my friends shop talking to another mutual friend I will call Jeremiah. He was asking me my opinion on the purchase of one of two types of snakes and I was giving him my opinion. The nurse I refer to had entered the store without me noticing and on her exiting she suddenly said...

“I was just telling your mate who owns the shop that YOU should definitely write a book!!”

I thanked her for saying it and off she went. But then as I stood there smiling that someone had suggested that I should, for the umpteenth time, I turned to Jeremiah and said “Oh hang on...a book about what?! She asked for at least THREE of my blogs and may have been more? Orchids, exotic animals, British Wildlife and the Corruption one! Well that is four and she did not mention which subject!”

LMAO!

When Jeremiah had finished his cigarette we re-entered the store and I asked Steve what she said and which subject she was referring to and he smiled and said “CORRUPTION!” and I said “Did you not tell her I had already written TWO?!”

It is nice when someone suggests that thought not quite as easy as it seems! Many that have known me previously and including those that urged me to do what I do originally suggested I wrote a book on the subjects I know. Corruption being one. Well I did so and previous to starting them along with during and AFTER writing them every now and then it was suggested that I write them. There were one or two that found out I was writing them and said “Why are you doing that? Who is going to be interested in that?” I always answered that for every one that thinks it was pointless there were ten that suggested that I do it so that they were in the minority!
Quite bizarrely it turned out that Literary Agents seem to agree with the negative people and I have NOT approached a single Literary Agent since I stared my blogs. NOT ONE! Also I might add that the people that were negative towards the books are not any more. In fact they peruse this blog gleaning it for information and to keep a track on what I am doing. There may even be those that keep a check just in case I suddenly decide to approach Literary Agents and something comes off? Or maybe they think I might suddenly get media attention?! Who knows? I myself do not really think about it all that much.

Though lately and every now and then I do ponder the approach of Literary Agents but I do not like what the industry has become and nor do I like the attitudes of Literary Agents as in my experience most of them are not too bright and suffer delusions of grandeur.

To show this as an example the majority of people think I should be published except for those that suffer the dreaded green envy!! What these have not realised is that saying one thing is great but if you keep saying it then the day you are proved wrong you are going to look the fool and only have yourself to blame. Not that I care that much, lol.

No my plan was that with the blogs all manner of people with all kinds of careers on all different levels would come here. Eventually those that I have been unsuccessful in hiring would then approach me. This stops me wasting MY TIME with people that are not going to bother reading that much before the manuscript I took time to spell-check, money to print out and send just has the first few lines read and then ends up on the slush pile as they want the next Harry Potter?!

I also know that the publishing houses, or at least the reputable ones, do not want clones of what has been done but want the next NEW THING. While literary agents only see dollar signs and want the clones hoping to get even a tenth of the cash J.K. Rowling made for her agents!


In the meantime I will just potter about and continue to ponder all that I witness and whether I would decide to approach these agents at some point in time?

Monday, 15 July 2013

THE CALLING OF THE BLACK SHEEP

This is a very sad story indeed and I guess explains what one Doctor said to me in a conversation about getting into publishing!

A Cuckoo's Calling had already one over critics as well as an award I believe. What I found if genuine interest that J. K. Rowling used a different gendre in her pseudonym?! The name used was Robert Galbraith.

But it had only sold 500 copies and was claimed that it was intended to remain under the pseudonym. This 'accidental' release if the fact that J. K. Rowling is the real author I thought was regraded due to low volumes of sales? So now it is reported that 500 copies were sold but within hours if the secret being revealed it has now jumped 5,000 places to the vet top of Amazon's sales list?!

5,000 places in a few hours?!

I thought it was only intelligent people read books?! Thought we were all geeky bookworms?! Now it reveals that peoples choices when it comes to buying items is utter crap!

It was the exact same book as before! But now it is revealed it is somebody famous it goes out the door like stink?!

Madness. As a professional myself I would want anything I do and within I say to be taken on its merit. But because the name if Martin Haswell had become famous, or infamous lol, for whatever reason. After all I never wanted to preach uh this blog I wanted people to see for themselves, teach then to take time out to see for themselves. Not blindly lead people as I am no leader. One I feel I have done it then I am done. End of story. Hence all the evidence I could possibly get my hand on over the years and put as much as I thought I needed to on here.

If this book had been Harry Potter book then I would but be paying about it. If it had been a book related to Harry Potter, like Beadle the Bard we would not be having this posted.

In answer to something a Doctor said to me I said 'but why do you have to be famous or first off write about someone famous to break into writing?! That is so wrong!' And she agreed.

This is another factor of literary agents I dislike but it is driven my the market and because people follow daft things like names and NOT subjects.

It is like watching flocking sheep just following one another while bleating away while jockeying for position in the queue to the tills?! People without minds of their own buying something and the reason is completely lost on me.

Oddly I had thought that when u had published my own books I could also write several others on a whole list of subjects in non-fiction mostly science.

I also have 5 chapters of a 4 volume science fiction novel I never managed to finish from 8 years ago, thanks to lack of proper support by those I've already covered.

But I thought with one name it would be difficult to write books on different subjects and even given the impression through contact with various literary agents that this would be hard to do.

Well it seems not now?!

LMAO!!

God, no wonder I have had difficulty getting through to people and why it had taken me do very long to achieve this?!

It also makes me realise why the electable parties of most countries seen to be in pairs, it voted into power based on a choice of only two despite others?!

Maybe this is why voters are fooled because the government know that when not happy with one and out of all choices there us only ever one other they vote for?!

Hmm maybe it is somehow designed like that or perhaps something to do with the human psyche?! So much for multi-tasking?!

LMAO!