Hmm... I never thought it was something to be taken seriously, but there's a little thing on how it supposedly works (basically like a spam filter).

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I did that a week or two ago. When I pasted a Lost recap into that, I got Joyce, which is way too apt for a page hit generator (not that I'm anything approaching Joyce, but the nature of recapping + the nature of Lost is very Joycian). When I pasted fic into it, I got Atwood (Buffy fic) and the guy who wrote Fight Club, whose name I'm too lazy to Google (VM fic). I understand Atwood got Stephen King, which tickles me.

eta the reason I really posted

This morning, I had to run to the store really early. I saw a man and he spawned a whole book in my head (not like that; he wasn't particularly hot or anything). I'm going to sleep now and am praying I get a Stephanie Meyer-esque dream of the whole damn story, because thinking is hard. Heck, learning enough about my Macbook to set up the document was hard enough.

Hey, Cindy, did you ever get the email I sent?

Oh Amy, I did and totally spaced on it. I'll reply right now. Thank you!

Mass romance novel publisher going all in on e-books

Dorchester Publishing, which describes itself as the "oldest independent mass market publisher in America," has decided to ditch its mass printing business to go digital- and print-on-demand only.

One more chapter left to take the word cutting scalpel to though I might end up neutral on word count do to some changes that come from -t's comments.

Then the short epilogue which won't change and I'm done again!

After that, back to the last round of revisions, save for a final go through to fix grammar, punctuation, and typos.

Mass romance novel publisher going all in on e-books

The whole thing is a cock-up of monumental proportions. They sold all of their best authors to Avon in January, they've been behind on payments to authors for years. This is just last-ditch and if they survive the year, I'll be shocked.

They really should have declared Chapter 11 over a year ago and reorganized.

Dorchester has always been more than a little shady, yeah.

Yeah, they seriously put the skeeve in skeevy. I mean, I've had three agents and all three refused to submit to them on principle. That tells me a lot

I always felt bad for their editors -- they were even more understaffed and overworked than we were at Kensington. And they had a guy there named Chris who was a real sweetheart.