robert eggleton
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A writer who is running a contests nominated my novel for entry. We chatted a little by email and she raised the above title that I rephrased into a question. She said that there was a fine line between the two. I've thought about it and have no answer. So, my introduction is to ask you this question.
I'm a psychotherapist in a children's mental health program for poor children. My project (notice that I didn't mention the name of my novel or web site) was created to raise money for the prevention of child abuse. Half of author proceeds are donated to a nonprofit agency (tax receipts avaialable) and the other half goes in a special fund to pay for advertising the sequel. (Also notice that one is never called spam if one pays to advertise.)
Since I'm inexperienced, I followed the then available directions: write, submit to publishers, get profesional reviews, resist self-publishing no matter how long it takes, and try to make friends in cyberspace. I was great at everything except the last part. I was excellent with professional reviews, especially from once famous science fiction authors and even The Missouri Review. I am poor at making friends. Frankly, I don't want to make friends on the internet. That's probably why I'm so bad at it. I feel like I'm pretending to be your friend just so you will buy my book.
So, as an intoduction I'm calling for volunteers. What would make this project work would be a bunch of people who want to help stop child abuse in West Virginia selling my novel. Our child abuse rates come close to third world countries. The version of the novel that was published is adult (I had three versions saved: children's, mature, and adult. I shut my eyes and clicked. So, volunteers should not be children, survivors of abuse that could be triggered by the domestic violence that is in the first chapters (the novel was reviewed as "laugh out loud" in parts, and as "satirical" and funny in another review), but the first part is horror. And, Piers Anthony advised that my novel is "not for the prudish...." This leaves out members of the Christian right as potential volunteers.
Please consider this worthwhile cause as you chat with your friends on this forum and elsewhere. The project is easy to find. Google my name. Thanks.
And, if you find out the answer to the above question, please post it so I can avoid being called the new "n word" for my labors. It's discouraging and I usually come home from work emotionally drained. Being called a bad name just makes me want to quit and take a nap.
I'm a psychotherapist in a children's mental health program for poor children. My project (notice that I didn't mention the name of my novel or web site) was created to raise money for the prevention of child abuse. Half of author proceeds are donated to a nonprofit agency (tax receipts avaialable) and the other half goes in a special fund to pay for advertising the sequel. (Also notice that one is never called spam if one pays to advertise.)
Since I'm inexperienced, I followed the then available directions: write, submit to publishers, get profesional reviews, resist self-publishing no matter how long it takes, and try to make friends in cyberspace. I was great at everything except the last part. I was excellent with professional reviews, especially from once famous science fiction authors and even The Missouri Review. I am poor at making friends. Frankly, I don't want to make friends on the internet. That's probably why I'm so bad at it. I feel like I'm pretending to be your friend just so you will buy my book.
So, as an intoduction I'm calling for volunteers. What would make this project work would be a bunch of people who want to help stop child abuse in West Virginia selling my novel. Our child abuse rates come close to third world countries. The version of the novel that was published is adult (I had three versions saved: children's, mature, and adult. I shut my eyes and clicked. So, volunteers should not be children, survivors of abuse that could be triggered by the domestic violence that is in the first chapters (the novel was reviewed as "laugh out loud" in parts, and as "satirical" and funny in another review), but the first part is horror. And, Piers Anthony advised that my novel is "not for the prudish...." This leaves out members of the Christian right as potential volunteers.
Please consider this worthwhile cause as you chat with your friends on this forum and elsewhere. The project is easy to find. Google my name. Thanks.
And, if you find out the answer to the above question, please post it so I can avoid being called the new "n word" for my labors. It's discouraging and I usually come home from work emotionally drained. Being called a bad name just makes me want to quit and take a nap.