I would rather not sell it at all and just find investors to help hire a celebrity Ghost Writer, which would cost, like, 250,000 or something. The company that hires these writers out, guarantee the book to be a New York best seller. From my understanding, a celebrity ghost writer is someone who has written many books for others that have become “best sellers” and are at a point in their writing career to produce these best sellers often. Unfortunately, we just heard the term ghost writer when we watched that movie with Pierce Brosnan so our understanding of the term is limited and we can’t be bothered to do five minutes of Google research.
You amuse me. And now I give you tons of free publicity. You naughty jokesters.
We will share our story with someone in person only and not over the internets. Our story is too valuable to be spread pubicly and will give a lot of new ideas for movies, action figures, cereals, and book series that should belong to the buyer.
Heh. “Pubicly”. You did that on purpose. Right?
Right?
This is yet another laffalot internet time waster. Therefore, more LOLCAT required.
Hey, you can’t make this stuff up. It’s up on ebay, and thanks to Jeremy Avery for the hat tip.
Alas, no bids so far.
I am selling my story that I have been creating for 10+ years. (not constantly writing, but of piecing everything together in a cohesive manner) It can be compared to stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Indiana Jones and other titles in those categories. This is a really great story I have. This story needs to be completed by a professional writer or Ghost Writer. I am by no means a writer.
Oh, stop.
OK, maybe it’s mean of me to mockity mock this, because it is clearly off the hook. But once in awhile, a publisher comes forward to ask me why I don’t write a Very Bad Freelancer series to go along with my Very Bad Publisher series. There are scores of deluded, untalented, diva-like goofballs out there making life miserable for perfectly nice publishing companies.
Well, conflict of interest (yeah, that’s it,) ’cause I’d have to squeal on my fellow freelancers (and, perhaps, me,) so no.
But I can point you to this utterly daffy ebay auction with a $3,000,000 starting bid, and a buy it now price of $10,000,000. I took a screen shot in case this thing evaporates tomorrow.
I would rather not sell it at all and just find investors to help hire a celebrity Ghost Writer, which would cost 250,000. The company that hires these writers out, guarantee the book to be a New York best seller. From my understanding, a celebrity ghost writer is someone who has written many books for others that have become “best sellers” and are at a point in their writing career to produce these best sellers often.
If George Lucas offered to sell his idea of Star Wars, would you have bought it?
No.
I will share my story with someone in person only and not over the internet. My story is too valuable to be spread publicly and will give a lot of new ideas for movies and book series that should belong to the buyer.
I bet JK Rowling thinks her story is too valuable to be shared publicly! Clearly, she should never have let that publisher put it into print. Now the cat is out of the bag! I know who killed Dumbledore.
This story will bring in endless fame and money to anyone who takes it. I do not have money to hire a Ghost Writer and I do not want to die with this story untold.
Must…stop…laughing…
And for the people reading this post who think I’m crazy for asking this amount of money for it; this kind of money is a drop in the bucket for large corporations. If it sounds like too much money then you are not the kind of buyer I’m looking for.
Well, OK then.
I know a Hollywood A-list screenwriter or three who doesn’t get that kind of money for a proposal, or even a final screenplay. It’s too bad Spielberg is such a skinflint. Otherwise, he could afford you.
Oh, look, I didn’t notice before. He’s thrown in free shipping.
For a $3,000,000 CD, I sure as hell should hope so.
The stack of completed Gone to Amerikay pages is bigger than the stack of uncompleted pages. Huzzah!
Gone to Amerikay is written by Eisner-nominated author Derek McCulloch, and its story spans several generations of the lives of Irish immigrants. Hardest thing I ever drew in my life. Prouder of it than I can express. And very excited to near the end of this journey.
Tangentially related, this article on anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass and his 1845 tour of Ireland, Scotland and England, an experience which had a profound effect on his ideals and later abolitionist adventures.
Douglass in Ireland found new avenues for self-expression that he’d never been afforded in the United States. “I can truly say,” he wrote to Garrison, “I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life since landing in this country, I seem to have undergone a transformation, I live a new life.” Speaking before Irish audiences — and feeling un-shadowed by “slave-catchers” and others who would do him harm — Douglass basked in a new confidence. And he came to view his fight against slavery as belonging to a larger, global struggle against all social injustices.
Irish balladeer Ken O’Malley sings “O’ Ro’ Se’ Do Bheatha Bhaile”. Thanks to Ken for allowing me to rave about his music here!
Jughead is perfect, and I must say, but for that bad dye job, Archie is kinda tasty. The fake freckles look like acne, though.
For those who don’t know, a few year’s back, I was asked by Archie to do a miniseries in my style for their new line-up of comics. Love Archie Comics, but the pay and contract offered were pretty bad. So bad, I was better off self publishing A Distant Soil.
I noticed uber-producer Michael Uslan doing some books for them, and I assume he got a better deal. One of the things in the contract is that you can’t do parodies of Archie Comics, or do anything that might show Archie in a bad light, which might include posting this nifty fan film. Who knows? I was unable to get them to clarify contract points, and we shook hands and walked away. Alas.
Too bad, I would have enjoyed the assignment. I got offered better work later, so it all worked out in the end.
I’m sure my original Archie prelim sketches are around here someplace. I’ll have to dig them up.
Absolutely lousy weather. Must stay offline so I can preserve bandwidth and load some Gone to Amerikay pages to DC’s FTP.
