So, under what name are your books published?

I don't know Stephen King although my best friend lives close to him. I
think Stephen King is a great writer but I don't read him anymore. I don't
like his subject matter.

Salem's Lot scared me so badly. I was sitting alone in a field in the
mountains one night and I swear the trees started closing in on me and it
was all Stephen King's fault. Haven't read another of his since.
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"Broomhilda" wrote:

What a wonderful mind you have. Ever think of taking up writing for a
living? I think you would probably outsell Stephen King.

No one outsells Stephen King. Though you may not have meant that, in fact
Stephen's a pal; he wrote a generous introduction for one of my books
years ago. That was an anthology of new writers & when I told Stephen
these unheard-of folks would not be easy sales on the strength of their
names, he lent his, writing a long juicy introduction commenting on each
tale. This insured that the volume became a bestseller on genre lists,
which in turn made it easy to sell a second volume. That's old history
now, & a few of those then-new writers have gone on to great success,
others have never been heard of since. More recently: at start of this
month I sold a tale called "A Bottle of Egyptian Night" to a major
anthology; I had a collection of my own tales issued in December by a
Canadian publisher as THE DEEP MUSEUM; & I have my own edited-series
called "Grim Maids," collections of Victorian women's supernatural tales
(volume 5 appeared last November as THE EMPIRE OF DEATH, complete weird
tales of Alice Brown, with my monograph on her life & works for
introduction; & will turn in a new volume within a couple weeks after a
final revision of the long introduction, that one'll be issued as THE
DREAMS OF GHOSTS, complete supernatural tales of Annie Trumbull Slosson).
Then just three weeks ago I was called up by Fox television who want to
option an old novel of mine for a mini-series. Productions almost never
follow mere options, but I immediately turned the negotiation over to my
agent to try to get the most possible for the mere option since odds are
against my ever getting anything else out of the deal. Though if I ever do
get to see it produced by Fox, woo-hoo! Fox's vice-pres asked me to
imagine Lucy Lu starring, so even as "just talk" this has been a bit of a
thrill.

Even with some slightly noticeable success, however, it's a stupid way to
try to make a living, & it has made me the opposite of rich -- though at
least I've not had to have any boss but myself for a couple of decades.

-paggers

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Wind chims in gardens are horrifying. They are noisy & annoying &
disturb
the natural sounds a garden can engender with birds & crickets &
rainfall
& rustling leaves & water features.

When some loon collects ten to sixty rackety hanging bits of ugly-ass
chimes to dangle all around the edges of their home, they make
themselves
a nuisance to their neighborhood. Such collectors should be shot dead
by
their own drug-dealing teenagers during a drive-by, the corpse buried
under dismantled windchimes & left to decay right there on the
broken-down
porch of the chimester's trailer house.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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