[narf poit chez BOOM]

This is priceless: http://www.lulu.com/content/102550

To qoute from the baen forums (Since you need to register to read):

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Subject: If you remember Eye Of Argon....
Author: Wyman Cooke
Date: 28 Jan 2005 11:42 PM
...and Naked Came The Stranger, then you'll get a kick out of this:

Publish America claims that they reject 80% of the books submitted to them. That they are _not_ a vanity press. So James D. Macdonald, of Mageworlds fame, decided to test the claims. He cooked up a bad plot and got around forty folks to play along. They each got a list of the characters in their chapter, along with a line or two of plot. No clue as to what came before or after. The finished, if you can call it that, novel was submitted to PA. PA bit, hook, line, and sinker. To quote James:

"You can read the manuscript at
ftp://ftp.sff.net/pub/people/doylema...Manuscript.rtf

You can read the acceptance letter at
ftp://ftp.sff.net/pub/people/doylema...acceptance.rtf

You can read the sample contract at
ftp://ftp.sff.net/pub/people/doylema...g/Contract.pdf

End quote.

Don't eat or drink while reading.

There is actually a call for this novel, despite PA's withdrawing the contract. You can find it at.

http://www.lulu.com/content/102550

Wyman


To summarize why I admired the Gipper: He was put on earth to do two things: kick butt and chew gum, and he ran out of gum around 1962.---Jonah Goldberg.

And I forgot to mention one other thing; the authors were encouraged to write as BAD as they could.
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