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I'll say O, because it is orbiting in space and an astronaut orbiting in space is weightless.

In my opinion, advertising doesn't sell books. So that leaves publicity and word of mouth. To get publicity you need to already be a celebrity, or be unique and outrageous. To get word of mouth, your book needs to be so incredibly good, or so different, that people will talk about it instead...

And even if you do get published, you probably won't make enough money to live on. (A friend of mine published four books and never made enough money to quit his day job.)

"Reunification" rumors have really heated up in the last couple of days. We'll see.

That was hard. I'm going to go have a beer and watch some sports before my testerone level drops dangerously low.

Actually, I do consider the lead characters in a Margret Atwood novel to be symbolic of all women. (I received better marks in grade 10 English when I did that.) Since no one else has taken a stab at the symbolism of The Blind Assassin, here's my best attempt at a B+. Society expects women...

I read Carrie and liked it. I always find the book "that made an author famous" interesting.

It's pretty simple. I’m really not into horseracing, but I watch the Kentucky Derby. I'm not really into college basketball, but I watch March madness. People who aren't hard-core racing fans will watch what everyone else is watching. That used to be the Indy 500, where the best drivers...

I read it a long time ago, but that's what I remember too. I thought she was very weak and unrealistic. Romance isn't really Hemingway's forte. I've read some of his Spanish Civil War short stories. They were excellent.

Plus, some non fiction writers make up just as much stuff as fiction writers.;)

I want to do the racing school at Mosport. Do you race yourself?

guilty. Sweet car and probably one of my favorite turns. I'll never forget Zanardi's pass there. That's got to be fun.

I certainly hope so. I just got back from stinking up an indoor cart track, but that's probably only interesting to me. What are the five forums?

Did you read it?

"For the first time in his life, you might say Dan Brown is trying to create literature." http://www.slate.com/id/2138483/

If you have an uncle niece marriage in your family, you have the beginnings of a "platform."

For 99% of fiction writers, the pay sucks too. I often wonder why so many people want to be writers.

You're maturing right before my eyes. I didn't think you'd be able to ignore the praise for Dan Brown. Good for you. What an amazing character arc.

What inspires authors? Hunger.

I don't really care how many people buy a book, just whether it's good. If it's good, I'll tell other people to check it out.