Just when the publishing world seems upside down and no one but Casey and Jeff are getting big advances and new contracts, there’s a story about two guys who were arrested last week for vandelism.
Now how does vandelism fit into publishing, big advances and getting published? Well, they vandelized a sign. They corrected spelling, or fixed the grammer or did something to make certain the sign was correct. And they’ve been doing this for 6 months, all over the country.
Why? Because they’ve signed a publishing deal for a book. A $175,000 deal. A book with signs…before and after they’d vandelized them.
So there you have it friends. Working on rewrites and agents and going to conferences, and spending hours and days and years on the choice of words and character development…Come on! Get a camera and a buddy and hit the road. How hard can this getting published thing be?
We’re over-thinking it. Casey…how about a book of crazy tombstones. Jeff, why not a book with short bios of authors who should have made it and never did. And me, I’m going back to Key West and just make a coffee table book with crazy quotes from the nutcakes who live on the beach. Let’s all get $175,000 advances this year. It doesn’t sound that hard, does it?
Don Bruns