P
P is a great letter, isn't it? You can do so many fun things with it. Oh! I know -- let's do PublishAmerica with it.
PublishAmerica -- the most patently penny ante poseur of all the vanity presses.
PA has been likened to a pirate ship plundering the literary seas, pandering for fresh blood.
PA is a purveyor of paltry advances and parsimonious at royalty time, with nary a pang of guilt.
PA is a parody of a publisher, printing out piecemeal some pretty puerile pap. PA is without peer when it comes to punishing its authors with pejorative abuse.
PA loves to propagate putrid propaganda, loves to induce paroxysms of pain with their penchant for pedestrian, punitive prose.
PA is a parasite over whom the proverbial pendulum is poised and prepared to propel it toward perpetual perdition.
Are you pissed off with all the Ps yet? I know I am. In parting, let me just say:
You wouldn't give matches to a pyromaniac. You wouldn't hand an axe to a psycho. You wouldn't knowingly add ptomaine to the potato salad. So, why would you hand your prized manuscript over to a poseur like PublishAmerica? Pass!
Miss Begotten is one of my pet names for myself, for Southern Gothic reasons best kept to myself. Miss Begotten tries to speak plainly, but sometimes she tends to babble -- parenthetically, of course. It's never my intention to offend (and usually that's true - except on those [maybe not so] rare occasions when I mean it very friggin' much) but it sometimes happens, so if you're unusually easily offended...
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They do, indeed. Copiously. LOL.
Hey, have fun working through "Unmasking PA." That one's mine, too. And feel free to visit the board as time permits.
Thank you very much, TRW. Those Tone Letters are most telling, no? Oh, and listen, I was pleased to link you -- you have some great information to impart. You're now an official "Resource."
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