Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:26:36 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How to sell books.....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 1/13/2006 08:40 AM, Eric Jablow wrote:

>On Jan 13, 2006, at 12:21 AM, Mike B. wrote:
>
> > At 1/12/2006 07:44 PM, Eric Jablow wrote:
> >> what Harlan Ellison pointed out as an extreme
> >> example of the idiot plot.
> >
> > "Guy vs. evil corporate managers, while the rest of the population
> > does
> > nothing to improve their lives."  Way too realistic...
>
>No, it's the "Marshal allows assassins to get off their
>spaceship and enter the mining base without
>stopping them at the airlock."

No, it's the "fan didn't pay close enough attention to realize that he
didn't know which passengers were miners and which ones were assassins"
one. ;-)

>It's the "Mining union refuses to protect their workers
>against corporate managers."  A mining union?  Let's
>all sing, "In Harlan County there are no neutrals here.
>You're either a union man or a thug for Sheriff Blair."

I doubt there was a union.  I got the impression that the miners were
little more than slaves.  After all, what are they going to do, quit and
walk home?  You want air, you work...

>It's the "Doctor doesn't know about lividity when drawing
>blood from the dead miner."

Well, the character had pretty much given up and was working on drinking
herself to death...until the new town marshal re-awoke her caring.

> >> Now, ask Oprah how to market books....
> >
> > Who?
>
>You haven't read about how the latest book she's featured
>has turned out to be fake?

Of course.  I was joking.  The book hasn't necessarily been proven to be a
fake, but it has turned out that critical parts of the story aren't as
non-fictional as was purported.  Can authors be sued for fraud?

-- Mike B.