Oh, Hec, I bet you have the same shot that they all have...

Better I hope. The two books I've already published (making me a known quantity as a writer, and from a publisher's perspective a safer bet) and an endorsement from Kim (whose book is just available now, and has had the highest presale for any book in the 33 1/3 series) should get me closer to 50/50. I hope.

Oh well, I thought my pitch was strong. It's a good representation of my writing style and how I'd approach the subject, so if they don't like it then it's not the right fit.

OK, my pitch is sent. I know my relative anonymity and inexperience works against me, but, hey, we'll see. I know at least 4 other writers who are sending in pitches, too, most of whom have far better credentials than I. But the pitch was a good example of my writing and, I think, a compelling story about a great album (I went with Shoot Out The Lights), about which there's only been that crappy RT biography published.

Good luck, Corwood, I really want to read it.

Hec, dawg, didn't mean to short your CV...minimize any of your props. Much music geek book -ma for all y'all, though.

Hec, dawg, didn't mean to short your CV...minimize any of your props.

Yeah! Quit minimizing my props.

::checks his propers for shrinkage::

Sorry, Corwood. My post looks kind of puffed up and asshole-ish on review. I'm just crossing my fingers like everybody else.

Hey, I don't think I went after your basket, symbolically or otherwise.(There was that dream that time, but I digress.) But I did not think about the other book. My bad...another slow morning.

Hey there, Musicarinos!

What is something obscure yet obtainable I could get for a fifteen year old who's room is covered in pictures of Sid, Nancy, and Johnny Rotten for Christmas?

Sid and Nancy probably isn't obscure enough, but does s/he have a copy of The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle?

Yo, Trudy, what's your spending range?

Sorry, Corwood. My post looks kind of puffed up and asshole-ish on review. I'm just crossing my fingers like everybody else.

Not at all! I didn't take any of this out of your post. I'm just trying to keep my hopes realistic. With my relative lack of credentials, all I have to offer is my narrative idea and, of course, my personality and charm. Neither of which really come through in my pitch, now that I re-read it (and this assumes that they don't just exist in my head). Oh well.

Yo, Trudy, what's your spending range?

Um... if something is awesome I have siblings who will go in on it with me so short of putting her up for a week at the Chelsea I don't really have one.