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Oh. You surprise me. And I suppose you think 666 is perfectly innocent as well?

Wow, I thought everyone on the planet knew that 13 was big trouble. A lot of people opt out of being 13 years old these days. They go straight from 12 to 14. Unless they're in a coven of wiccans or something.

Now, you KNOW my hair must look way better than that! But the spork is very attractive.

N: Hi Doc. Your fly is open. DS: Um, er, Novella. Do we have a session today? N: Yeah, sure. I made it under a different name though. Gloria Mundi. That’s my pseudonym for my new book. DS: Novella, you really should use your real name for therapy. That way I know who will be here. So...

This article lends some good insight into the mechanisms that may have lead to the plagiarism: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/books/27pack.html?pagewanted=1 Interesting to note that an editor who was at Crown when Sloppy Firsts was published then worked on Opal Mehta at the book packager...

Hi Doc. You’re not busy are you? Well, novella, I was just leaving. C’mon, give me ten. I just took a cab all the way from midtown. Well, if you must. Sit down. Yay. Think I’ll lie down today. Phew, I’m beat. What’s the problem, novella? Well, that’s something I figured...

"DOC, HI, IT'S ME NOVELLA. I'M GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE. I WANTED YOU TO KNOW. I'M ON THE ESCALATOR AT MACY'S AND I'M GOING TO LET IT SUCK ME IN AT THE TOP. I'M SERIOUS. I CAN'T GO ON. I'M GOING TO GET SUCKED UNDER THE FOURTH FLOOR MENSWEAR. DON'T TRY TO STOP ME . . . " silence . . . ...

Geez, I don't understand what happened with this thread merge. Sticking my post there without any comment from a mod looks really stupid. If someone is going to shift stuff around, would you please at least post a comment as to what went where, and why? Plus VR is the listed thread author, so it...

The chick got something like $2M in advance. Pedestrian writing, juvenile story, plagiarizing . . . what more could a publisher want? Apparently she hired a 'manuscript development team' to rewrite and market the MS to publishers. Wonder if they're the ones who ripped off the other book...

Today's session N: Hi Doc. Nice shirt. They’re coming back. DS: You like it? My mother gave it to me in 1978. N: Let’s not go there, doc. DS: Well, I was just going to say that she had these very long, smooth nails . . . N: Ahem. Er. 100 bucks an hour? Hello? Where was I . . . ...

Doc, nobody understands me. If I had only eight fingers and two were made of cream cheese. . . forget it . . I can't explain with all these people around. How's you're neck wound?

Isn't anyone following this? More interesting developments from the monied ranks of bigtime fiction . . . does anyone believe that amount of plagiarism of one other author could be accidental? Anyone not up on the story, see anything related to "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed" as relates to...

Duh, I've been waiting near the elevator bank for, like, months. I was trying to stalk you, doc, but I forgot what you looked like. You're so normal and everything. I've been doing some powerful chocolate for probably three days. Whoa. I can't see my own eyeballs.

Your question reminds me of the wonderful book The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess. As I remember it, it has three parallel narratives, one of which is about Freud, one about Trotsky, and one about the end of the world. It's a great, fascinating novel and nobody mentions Burgess anymore...

Isn't every great line that you've ever heard so context-driven that alone it seems meaningless? Isn't that the beauty of a film or a book, that it gives context to the great lines and scenes of life? I have to say that one of the reasons that I write is to solve this problem of context. Without...

"Leave the gun. Take the cannollis."

I believe he's named Greg Iles. If anyone is searching for this author, they would never find this thread as is. Perhaps a mod could intervene?

No more Mr. Nice Guy, hey Moto? Seriously, MSx, this isn't the most effective way to make a pitch. Try writing the book first, at least part of it. Then you ought to read up on how to sell it. I'm not even sure what half your post actually means.

Why, oh, why would you ever consider not getting into Anne Rice to be a shortcoming on your part?

Seems like just yesterday this subject was discussed at length. Doesn't anyone remember this? http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=6163&highlight=suicidal