Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:49:44 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Guy wants to give us free copies of his book
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Interestingly, N Lynch said:
>Sometimes even free is too much to pay.

That about sums it up.  While I have some sympathy for the guy's creative
impulse, he should hang onto his day job.  This is the kind of thing that
people are paid by publishers to glance at and reject.  Nobody should have
to actually read it.

My first thought was that he had vanity pubbed his stuff, but the copy on
his website looks too tacky even for that.  I bet he's doing his own
version of print-on-demand. . .OTOH, if he can afford to vanity pub several
novels, perhaps he can afford to pay us to read them.

Barry