Posted on 02/06/2005 4:12:07 PM PST by Mongeaux
"Atlanta Nights" By Travis Tea. "Travis Tea" is a pseudonym for a group of (mostly) science fiction and fantasy authors who were amused by PublishAmerica's claim (at their authorsmarket.net site) that SF & F authors are "writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters."
So about thirty writers banged out a novel over a long weekend, writing it as ineptly as they could. Plot, characterization, theme ... none of them are to be found in ATLANTA NIGHTS. Grammar and spelling take a drubbing. The book was submitted to PublishAmerica -- and it was accepted.
"Each day, an average 78 new authors who are looking to find a book publishing company ask us to publish their book," PublishAmerica says. "We review not only the quality but also the genre of their work.... Like all serious book publishing companies we have to be picky as we can only accept the works that meet our requirements in both areas." Now you can see for yourself exactly how "picky" about quality they are.
Prepare to be amazed.
(Excerpt) Read more at lulu.com ...
And you thought YOUR writing STUNK??? LOL! Msg me for a link to the free .PDF preview version of the full novel.
Sounds like a sick joke we'd pull..
Unfortunately, we'd get in massive trouble for it in all likelyhood.
A "Better you than we!" ping.
There are worse ideas than what I come up with!
Say "travis Tea" really fast 3 times and you get the "Name" joke
Well....it is a vivid word picture.
If a bit stomach turning.
Travesty, I know.
k - just making sure. It took me a bit to get, but I am slow that way.
Described my writing quite well, so I got it.
*chuckle*
That IS a great idea for FReeperhood. Get a bunch of us together to each bang out a chapter ... Could be pretty damn funny.
I, for one, am encouraged im my writing by this abomination. I know I am not that bad and even if I am - I can still get published!
No set standards of good or bad in The Arts! Thank GOD for Liberals!
Was a bad idea that was thought up last year, to have a thread where everyone writes a different part in the next post.
Difficult in action due to many posting at the same time.
We didn't do it since we didn't know if it'd get pulled.
I agree - it could be some lefty symbolic tome in the "A Handsmaid's Tale" genre.
Seems like we did that a long time ago, during the reign of
Clintonius the 1st.
Amazing. Incredible. Mind-bending. Sweet. Coy. Surprising. These are all words. Some of them are found in this book.
Ha! That WOULD be a little tough to control!
I draw, and am somewhat upset that stuff that looks like my cat created it gets twelve grand.
"After reading Atlanta Nights, I had the same gut feeling about it as I did about my intestines after my last colonoscopy."
LOL!
"Some of them are found in this book"!
Yeah!
Unless a group of people decided to write from one character's point of view, another group wrote about the action, and there was some collaboration between the two to mesh the halves?
"The especially beloved and completely incoherent Chapter 34 was written by a text generator that had been fed some earlier chapters.
But the book's moment of true genius comes, not when one of the characters wakes up and realizes that all of the foregoing chapters were a dream, but when that happens AND THEN THE BOOK CONTINUES ANYWAY. "
I resent the implication that my writing does not, in fact, "stink."
How many of you boast of the fact that you were rejected for an (unpaid) position on the staff of The New York Press?
HA!
I'd like to see you top that.
(Smug grimace.)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
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