Posted on 07/01/2025 3:50:50 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
So far my tweet has gotten 17 views.
Best of luck!
Professional editing: loved and praised story and declared it worthy of publication.
Self publish: thousands of dollars to a ‘reputable’ publisher; chintzy, probably AI generated cover art with no relevance to the book; ditto for website; a few phone calls with advise which wasn’t relevant to the story; a box of ego boosting prints; zero sales despite promised promotion.
Paid agent: promises with zero results.
Multiple rejection letters: no interest without large social media following of at least 1,000; need to ‘spice up some romance’ and add some LGBQT to get audience (keep in mind that I promote Christian values without overt religion).
I’ve written multiple manuscripts in various genre over the years because it is better to write than watch just about anything in media. I share, and people like them, but no money in it aside from a few monthly $ on Amazon Kindle.
Seems most people want shallow characters (superheroes) and continuous action. Compare blockbuster movies of today with the heyday on the thirties and forties. And only a small minority reads any more.
Who is e and why do we have to pay him/her to get Twitter followers?
This thread will die down but keep us updated on your progress. I wish you well.
I had an undergrad “thesis” published in college
Dr Brooks was my “agent”
It’s still there on micro fish or whatever
It was an extensive study on the bias of the media in the south during the civil rights era that had just ended
I favored the freedom rider side
I’m sure my homies here are like no way our wardaddy did that?
Were you high?
Well yes in fact very high the entire time lol
I went to publishers and tv folks from Georgia to Texas
And in Mississippi I already knew a lot of them
The Hedermans and Emmerichs and Hodding Carter
It was actually a quest and I enjoyed it
I got like a 500 dollar grant for it afterwards
Oh hell, why wouldn’t I believe you? You sound like you always have ( so do I! ), and this does sound like something you would have done. :-)
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Thank you, and I shall :-) The other night I thought it would be fun to put together a mock-up of what the cover might look like. Less than two hours into that I discovered an image - well within public domain - that will be perfect for it. It’s a beautiful picture that fits the title and themes incredibly well. I like to think that is definitely a “God winks at you” moment :-)
"...we will watch your career with great interest."
Regards,
Yes and if you promoted it I understand views would increase.
I wish we had a like button
By the fact you are asking this question, you are like me before I took the author path. Let me walk you through what you will learn, if you begin to get successful. I am the only person who walked this path and stayed independent enough to tell you how it works, save for maybe Vox Day (Theadore Beale).
I had a great idea for a political book based on a flash of insight I had in the biological sciences, linking reproductive strategies in animals to ideology. I thought, like you, it worked like we are told, and you write a good book and people buy it, and the machinery exists to facilitate that. But it is nothing like that.
The top of our social hierarchy is all degenerates and criminality. Rep Gary Condit gets investigated over Shandra Levy, and he has semen from five different men in his bed. Lindsey Graham is reported to have a male escort issue, and had a juicy little sidestream of income from USAID. Billionaire Peter Theil’s boy toy took a swan dive off a high rise, and he is really just a frontman for CIA, because CIA prefers their private sector tech companies have civilian faces. The pilfering of our Treasury is beyond measure. Pedophile blackmail operations like Epstein’s are everywhere, and they get more degenerate every day, as society comes to accept or tolerate more degeneracy every day. It is no longer enough to have an affair behind your wife’s back.
And the most surprising thing of all is it is all organized, and moreover, the whole system of our society is organized around the criminality and degeneracy at the highest levels.
You live in a giant, controlled psyop. It appears to be run primarily by something like CIA in the USA, but the command flowsheet probably runs up to old money families in Europe and the mideast.
It has spent decades, building a civilian-spy network like the Stasi, with neighbors in each neighborhood assigned to watch everyone, spy on them, even listen in their houses, and run their children in the schools to build files on the other kids. That is how bad it is at the top. They have to have that level of control.
As the civilian informant network grew, CIA was also pressing into the civilian sector. It began innocently enough, asking something like IBM to backstop a NOC’s cover. But then IBM was suddenly backstopping like 200 NOCs, and rival companies were outcompeting the CIA-supporting company, so CIA maybe used agency assets to give IBM an edge, and then IBM hired CIA executive when they retired, except you never really retire from that work. And then they had IBM preferentially hire civilian informers, and pretty soon most companies were owned by this thing, and filled with civilian informers who were spending all their spare time doing vehicular patrols for domestic surveillance.
Books are a big thing with this conspiracy, and they have made sure the literary agents are in the conspiracy, as are the publishing houses. There are two reasons for that.
In trying to become an author, you are looking to be given a microphone, and some cash from the op’s slushfund. They don’t just do that, because you may see what I have seen and they are not going to just give you the reach of a microphone they own, to expose them. They need to know you are on board, and will keep your mouth shut.
You would prove that one of several ways. Operating in domestic surveillance and selling out your neighbors and friends from when you were a kid would do it, because your hands would be dirty. You could join the Freemasons, and swear your oath to lucifer, and maybe do other things like some child-bride ceremony, or some rumors claim some kind of anal-sex ritual (probably just for blackmail and not really the ritual), and that would probably get you in. Literally you could try sleeping with underaged girls, or doing drugs, etc. If local surveillance liked you, and you are trying to be an author, and you can be blackmailed through something like that, they would report it all and you might get drawn in there because you could be controlled. That is why ever time Hunter was doing something degenerate, he flipped on the video cameras. It was not for him, it was to give this thing blackmail, so he was a trusted agent. Other than that you would have to be family of somebody in, and be vouched for.
The second reason they would not want you is, publishing houses are not really about selling books. From what I have seen their real gig is as a money laundering operation to pay off the more powerful agents of this thing.
The thing is people do not buy books. So when Hillary gets a $5 million advance for a book, that is a payoff of some kind for something, by this thing. In order to make it back, the publisher would have to sell more books than it will ever sell. Vox Day has done the math, and it never works out.
I doubt, unless you have a relative in the conspiracy, you will get any deal. Those are strictly for people in the secret society of surveillance people and others in the conspiracy.
Now you can self-publish, but the problem is, if you are successful, you will get a microphone, and they do not like that. My book was very popular, people came to my website, AnonymousConservative.com/blog, and still do, for news and commentary. I ended up with an audience.
If you begin to see such success, the first thing you will get is harassment surveillance. The local surveillance people will come out of the woodwork, and begin following you menacingly all around. They will listen in your house, and when you talk about them in your living room, they will drive cars back and forth in front of your house, revving the engines, honking the horns, yelling, all sorts of stupid stuff. They might have their kids target your kids in the schools, as that is a thing as well.
I didn’t back down, so the next step is they beam you from nearby houses with microwaves and other things, probably much more advanced. You body will vibrate, and it is basically Havana Syndrome, which is much more common than the media has told you. Here is a page where I recorded some of the attacks. I even have a thermal video of a beam heating a piece of foil I put over me to show the beam:
https://americanstasi.com/gently-rapping-at-my-chamber-door/
Here is fourth in command of the NSA, Bill Binney, talking about them doing it to him and his wife:
https://rumble.com/v2std78-bill-binney-and-katherine-horton-directed-energy-weapons-4117.html
From there, they will begin knocking you out with some kind of beam they have. I have gotten that more times than I can count, and Bill, in the interview above, IIRC, says they did it to his son while he was driving.
Basically the intelligence community took over all of these things. You are trying to be someone with an audience, but they are not allowing that right now, because they are busy trying to psyop the country into slavery, and they do not want anyone standing up and speaking the truth to people.
Honestly, the goal of those in the IC right now is to put everyone in a boring cubicle job, while they raid the treasury and run off with the money. By trying to write something good, you are not in your cubicle where you are supposed to be.
If you want to see the surveillance you will encounter, stop by AmericanStasi.com.
If you still want to do it, I think you will end up having to self-publish.
It is crazy, and nobody will tell you it works this way, but that is what I wished they taught in school when I was growing up.
Wow; the only thing you left out is government collusion with the Greys.
Well, there is a chapter in my book where I share about the time I ran for public office (it started as a joke on live television and soon took on a life of its own). I conclude the chapter with asking readers to consider running for office also, that is what the Founders wanted: a people governing themselves. I tell the readers that America isn't meant to belong to the powerful and well-connected.
That would probably put me on their radar for sure, I suppose.
Thank you for sharing that. I admit that it put a damper on my spirits, a bit. But it is something to think about.
I clicked the “promote” button. Doing that starts at $25 in exchange for being put high in people’s feeds for a little while. I don’t have that kind of disposable income. I suppose a pauper without much of an audience is all I’ll be consigned to be LOL
Keep trying: JK Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before Harry Potter was published. She sold over 600 million copies of the seven books.
Research book publishers that do not require agents and submit with a killer pitch.
How To Sell Ebooks
https://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-sell-ebooks.html
His books have sold over four million copies worldwide.
What Are Average Book Sales?
https://stevelaube.com/what-are-average-book-sales
How I Turned 1 Ebook Into a Full-Time Business
How to Create, Market & Sell your eBook
https://medium.com/@hazelparadise/how-i-turned-1-ebook-into-a-full-time-business-081fa487280b
Google: how to sell your ebook
There are all kinds of help links
Here is Bill Binney in two interviews, former 4th in command of the NSA on 9/11, and so famous in those circles, he was played by Nick Cage in Snowden. He is known as the greatest mathematician and cryptologist NSA ever had. I have talked with him, he is a great guy.
https://rumble.com/v2std78-bill-binney-and-katherine-horton-directed-energy-weapons-4117.html
https://rumble.com/v6jevfg-the-still-report-bill-binney-directed-energy-weapons-4664.html
Since leaving the NSA, “They” moved into houses next door and began beaming him with microwaves through his walls.
Bill and his wife think they knocked him out, they think with some kind of beam weapon through the walls at night, came in and injected him on multiple occasions with a weaponized MRSA. A friend who works in intelligence/biowarfare told him that was their assumption, and he now turned his bedroom into a vault, locked from the inside, and the MRSA infections stopped, though he did lose both legs.
They implanted some device into his legs, maybe during his surgery, and he cannot find a doctor to take it out. Apparently all think it is government, and they are either approached and told to leave it or they just know not to remove government implants. Bill has since interacted with other elite intel employees who also have implants they did not consent to get, and thinks many, from CIA to FBI, are likely knocked out in their homes with the beam while sleeping, and teams come in a covertly implant them so those at the top can keep better track of them.
Bill moved, they bought the houses around him again, began beaming him again, and began with the “impact weapon” which I have seen firsthand in my house. It is a through-wall weapon which causes an impact of force on the target, almost like a poltergeist effect. I recorded the beam from it on a thermal camera, heating a piece of foil I placed over me to catch it. Using that weapon, they blew two holes through steel sheets Bill installed to try and shield from the microwaves. Watch the interviews.
If you live a drone life, like most people, and never take them up on the lies about how free you are, you will never see this stuff. But for those of us who have seen how the country works, we can not imagine being blind to it.
You have to understand, at the top, the world is Darwinian. They have just told you all the lies to keep you pacified - nobody would seize power brazenly, you control the government, you elect your leaders, the court system is not compromised from judges to clerks, everyone must obey the laws, there are no through-wall directed energy weapons being used on the populace, nobody assigned to live in your neighborhood is listening in your house like the Stasi did. You could be a billionaire, or a famous author, or President if you wanted to.
But it is not like that. The sharks at the top have the top walled off for themselves, and you get to run on the treadmill. You can only understand by trying to take them up on one of those lies.
You would never make it to becoming a billionaire, they would intervene to thwart you, but if you did, and you assumed the laws were protecting you, you would not last long. Get into politics, and be successful, and be principled and don’t fall for the honeypots, or drug parties, or other tricks. Surveillance will come out of the woodwork in your community, and follow you everywhere. You can look at the first page of my site to see what it looks like.
This is why they have such an advantage. Good people like yourself literally cannot imagine the people running things are not good people just like you, who would do what you would do. But they are not good people. They are sharks, and they think your goodness is weakness and stupidity.
God Bless, I hope you never have to deal with it.
You will have surveillance keeping tabs on you, they probably have a house next door, too. That whole world is not really politics. It is power, controlled by the sharks of intel from the shadows, using controlled assets/actors who play politicians.
There is a “modelling” website almost nobody has heard of, run by an Israeli guy, IIRC who was mostly known for his porn endeavors. It was full of “Models” who had put up profile pages, but their pics were not traditional glamour shots. They were clearly poorer girls trying to take pics by swimming pools in their Daisy Dukes, and the site kind of looked like an escort site, more than a modelling site. Run by an Israeli.
The amazing thing was how many big name conservative women today were posting profiles to that site ten years ago when they were broke and nobody. Tomi Lahren, Candace Owens, Lauren Boebert, and a bunch of others. Even the ditzy blonde Dominion Voting worker, Melissa Carrone, who testified sitting next to Rudy about how she saw election anomalies, had a page.
The theory is it was an escort site, those girls went on calls, blackmail vids were made, and then they were brought into politics and promoted up because they were now assets and controlled.
It is a dirty business, precisely because it has been taken over by intelligence.
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