Let Me Profit From Your Work
February 27, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Entertainment
Have a poem? Want it published? This guy will put it into a book. Voila! Now you’re published!!!
want to get published?
Reply to: ass@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-02-23, 10:56AM CST
I am a published author, and I am in the works on putting a book together on poetry. So, if you would like to get your stuff published, I am looking for some entries, so just email me your stuff in word form and I will take a look at it. You can submit any kind that you like and as many as you like…..good luck.
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This ad is from a published author. In this day and age it can mean he has a best-selling novel or a blog that no one has seen. Thanks to the Internet anyone can be published and being published doesn’t mean what it used to.
It looks like Mr. Published Author is putting together a book of poems. Except he isn’t putting his own poems into the book, he’s looking for other people’ s poems. So what’s going to happen to the profits? Who’s taking the take? Well…it appears it’s not the people who wrote the poems for Mr. Published Author’s books. Why it’s none other than Mr. Author Himself. What a generous person he is!
“Stuff,” he or she says. Some poet.
What does “I am in the works on” mean? How about “I am in the process of,” Mr. Published Author?
And how nice of him to offer to “take a look at” your hard work, which he’ll stealing from you if he deems it good enough to make a buck on. Priceless.
I wonder if someone should tell him that “included in the Poetry.com vanity anthology” is not the same as writing a book?
If this guy really is genuinely published (as in through a proper non-vanity publisher), which I doubt he is, then that makes it even worse than if he’s just some ass who doesn’t get how it’s supposed to work, because he’d have even less excuse not to know better.
CL is rife these days with “write my book for me” ads. Everyone’s “compiling stories” for their proposed books… no one writes their own books anymore. Is there some huge market all of a sudden for non-fiction anthologies? And are people really so vain that they’re willing to write a thousand-word piece that puts money in someone else’s pocket… just to see “themselves” in typewritten form?
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