A couple of posts back I mentioned the Jenna Glatzer interview with Ed Horrell. An archival copy is posted on Ed Horrell's site now (and btw, Ed's site is beautiful and very professional in appearance; he should be very proud of it and really pleased with his web designer).
I've been listening to the interview as I write this and it's wonderful! Jenna has a very natural way about her, it's a pleasure to hear her and Ed have a conversation. She starts off the interview talking about freelance writing, her experience and then gives some great advice. Then she and Ed talked for quite a while about PublishAmerica.
I won't give you a run down of the entire show because you should listen to it yourself! But I will comment that one of PA's former authors was mentioned briefly. His name is Kevin Yarbrough and he sent PA a story titled Eli Smith and the Purple Pony to test whether or not they read the manuscripts they were sent. (They claim to be selective and to reject 80% of submissions) He wrote 30 pages then copied the same 30 over and over and sent that in. They sent him a contract and then were clued into the facts about the manuscript. You can read how PA handled that over at AW.
Kevin has been posting on AW for quite some time and he writes about topics other than PA as well. For example, I found some analysis of my place in the universe:
Dawno's power isn't related to anything that she has done, but a consequence of the Universe. I did some checking on this when I first read it and this is what I found, better yet, hypothesised.
On July 23, 1957 there was a giant sunstorm that caused the Aurora's to become more magnificent. With this the Earth's electromagnetic field shifted slightly. When Dawno was born her presence upset the balance of the electromagentic field thus causing a disturbance in the fragile Space-Time Line. The disturbance has, for some reason, caused a massive influx of bad things to happen all over the Universe. Influenza outbreaks, flying sunflower seeds, Alf's bad breath, and the uprising on the far away planet of POZ (though this planet is far away, from reality that is, it has taken years for it to feel the effect of this occurence).
The Space-Time Line is being bent to the point of snapping because of her birth. From what many scientist have agreed on (scientist being me, myself and I) it has been proven that if Dawno were to ever kiss Shemp or publish a book with PA then the world would end.
So, in all essence, it is all Dawno's fault.
Of course, if you know me, you already knew this.
Posted by Dawno at May 9, 2005 08:07 PM