On my way

[Odin88]

I thought this was as an appropriate forum as any for this. I have been writing short stories and essays for years. I have never bothered to attempt to publish any of them as I do it solely for my own amusement. But Joanne has been bitching at me to submit them to Doubleday, Random House, Zebra, Tor, etc...

Over the next several months I won't be here much as I will be assembling my archived works and writing new stories. Contrary to my often choppy and mispelled posts here, I am not a bad writer. I have one fucked up imagination and if I can get paid for it, why not?

I am more of a "short story" writer, but eventually wish to write full length novels. I have already fleshed out the first 3 short stories I plan on sending in to Doubleday. In total, I will send in no less than 20 to be published in a collection. ( If they buy them of course)

My main motivation is to get the fuck out of Dodge, as the saying goes... Joanne and I both share the same dream- to live in the midde of Nowhere, North Dakota in a huge old country farm house. (Fully remodeled with all the amenities of course) No more wage-slavery, no more city life with douchebags and nigger assholes... It would be wonderful. I can write like Hemingway when the mood strikes me and to be able to sit at a computer for 4 or 5 hours a day playing around in my imagination and getting paid for it.... Fuck me, where do I sign?

We have spent hours talking about it. A country estate with a beautiful house, a barn, some horses, a couple of dogs........ A fireplace in the bedroom, canopy bed with white silk sheets and a bear skin blanket.
I am retiring from "public service". I am tired of the human race and the shithole my country has become.
The boys in the NSM will be pissed at me, but I am tired to my soul of all of the bullshit. I am 32 years old and as a convicted felon, my prospects for "retirement" are bleak, at best. I am stepping down and embarking on a new era in my life. My current job is fantastic, but as soon as I get that letter back from any publisher who buys my work- guess what? My ass is self-employed.

I don't think I'm being selfish here. I think Chicago Avenger and others would understand. If the white race and America is going to be saved, its not up to me to do it. Do it yourselves! Over the years I have given everything I had to my cause, and it all came to nothing. (Just watch your evening news....) I am going to live out my dream and write my books and live in seclusion in the country and watch this whole mess unfold.

I am an asshole for feeling this way? I think not. A first time author, right out of the gate, can expect to sell his first novel for around $50,000. An entirely average showing for this is around ten to fifteen thousand copies. A publisher will normally sell a paperback at around $8.99. This in the neighborhood of $100,000 in total sales. So the publisher will get back the $50 grand advance they sent you and make around $40 grand in profit. And of course they have thousands of clients so the numbers add up into the hundreds of millions of dollars. There are also the royalties to come later....

I am beginning this morning. All of my files are ready and I am going to start editing them today. I love you guys and I love my new job, but if I can tap away at my keyboard and cash in $50,000 paychecks every few months, can you blame me for doing so?

[Odin88]

The collection will be titled "The Slums of Vahalla". No real reason for it, I just like it. The first 5 stories are fully edited and ready to go. I need to get another 15 or 20 done. Wish me luck!

[darkpassenger]

Yeah get away from the ass ugly niggers man.

You've put in your time both figuratively and literally for the white race.

You've earned your rest and besides if everything falls to shit and a revolution happens at some point in our future you'll be on the frontlines again anyway if for no other reason than pure survival.

[Southern Belle]

I FULLY UNDERSTAND!

It's 17 miles to the nearest town for me. (pop. 20,000)

8 miles to the nearest town with a (one) grocery store (pop.330)

3 miles to the nearest convenient store

I use a lot of gas in my V-8 Dodge Ram pickup, but that's the breaks, living in the country.

Sure is quiet out here. The crickets are deafening at night! :jest

Yeah..once you get off the road to my house..its 1.2 miles in the woods with nothing but kinfolk around me. There is a apt complex about half a mile to the left (where the nigger parked his car to try to break in my garage) but its mostly older folks. When we complete our move to the new house..I'll be another mile or so deeper in the woods. This is the view I have now

http://www.jimmyvaliant.com/1751.JPG

and I'm still too close to niggers

[Had enought]

I understand and wish you the best of luck in your new quest!

I live out quite a ways in the sticks and it’s real nice.

Only a couple niggers within about a 7 mile radius and only a few more out to a 15 mile radius. The nearest traffic light in any direction is over 17 miles. More deer than people here that’s for sure.

Get a country place and enjoy the good life Odin!:cheers

[JT Buckmaster]

Best of luck, my friend. I hope I can come visit when you make it big. I'll fly out during the winter months so I'm not quite so tan. Wouldn't want to offend my hosts! :lol

[SST]

You do know how to turn a phrase Odin. I have been fortunate enough that a fella actually published a couple of my stories. Main thing, you will get many rejections, do not be disheartened. If you hit the right person with the right story, at the right time, you will get published. Timing is everything, persistence is paramount, and the will to express yourself is most important of all. Good luck, and I would love to see your ideas.

[Odin88]

Yeah..once you get off the road to my house..its 1.2 miles in the woods with nothing but kinfolk around me. There is a apt complex about half a mile to the left (where the nigger parked his car to try to break in my garage) but its mostly older folks. When we complete our move to the new house..I'll be another mile or so deeper in the woods. This is the view I have now

http://www.jimmyvaliant.com/1751.JPG

and I'm still too close to niggers

Goddamn sis, thats beautiful! North Dakota was flattened by the glacier about a hundred thousand years ago, but we do have some incredible countryside here with nice rivers. I hope to sell enough books to buy about 200 yards of riverfront property and build my lady's palace along it.... It looks like you live in a truly beautiful area. Good for you hon! I too have had my fill of concrete, niggers and sirens.

I no longer hunt or have any interest in blowing away woodland critters, so I want to put out bales of alfalpha and hay a few dozen yards from the house for the deer. I am a half-assed photographer and it would fun to collect photos of the wildlife out in the country. We have fox, coyotes, deer, badgers, weasels, ferets, etc... From the center of Fargo, all one needs to do is drive for 20 minutes and you are in "Wild Kingdom"..:lol I want to stay near Fargo, but out west in the Badlands there are herds of wild mustangs. ( no bullshit- Theodore Roosevelt national park is crawling with wild horses and bison- how cool would that be?)

If not for Joanne pestering me, I probably would have just continued to write for my own pleasure and alll of my work would have sat in my steamer trunk for years. I never really thought of attempting to publish any of it because I write for my own amusement. I was digging through the trunk a couple months back and she wandered into the room and asked me what I was up to. She looked through a few of my stories and she said, "Bill, why the FUCK are you wasting your tiime cooking in a goddamn restaurant?" I got a little defensive. "I like to cook baby." Her reply, 'You're a dumb ass! Publish this shit and buy us a house in the country...."

As Joanne controls the vagina in our relationship, I chose to comply. Otherwise she would hold it hostage and we certainly can't have that......:lol

[TobyWhipper]

As Joanne controls the vagina in our relationship, I chose to comply. Otherwise she would hold it hostage and we certainly can't have that......:lol

A man who gets it! :lol

Good luck in your venture and don't forget to check back once in awhile. :thup

[Berserker]

Awesome stuff! You will have a blast Odin88, and of all people I think you deserve it.
When you publish your book, sign some copies for the Chimpout eh?
I cant wait to read it.
Onward soldier, seclusion and nature is calling you!!!
:rock:rock

[NiggerHater]

A first time author, right out of the gate, can expect to sell his first novel for around $50,000. An entirely average showing for this is around ten to fifteen thousand copies. A publisher will normally sell a paperback at around $8.99. This in the neighborhood of $100,000 in total sales. So the publisher will get back the $50 grand advance they sent you and make around $40 grand in profit. And of course they have thousands of clients so the numbers add up into the hundreds of millions of dollars. There are also the royalties to come later....

Best of luck.
Over here, any contract signed for first time authors has clause stating advance is refundable to publisher if xxxx amount of books not sold to public.

Apart from that we get 10 pence out of every Pound (the rest covers publisher costs).

Negotiate online publishing rates, thats the future, not paper.

Think of getting reputable agent to represent you, he/she will open doors instead of getting rejections from publishers, well worth the success fee.

Then buy big house etc. thumbsup

[newport t. maplebacon]

good luck. and i do mean good luck.

i don't want to rain on your parade at all, but i know an author who just had his first novel published and ive talked to him about the business many times.

remove any illusions of that $50k. you are more likely to be struck by lightning and win the lottery on the same day than recieve that. for a short story an amateur writer will recieve anywhere from $20-$60. my friend got maybe $1k for his novel and hes been writing for 20 years and has a pretty impressive resume and body of work. like any business youve got to pay your dues. unless youve had your nose to the grindstone paying your dues, facing rejection after rejection until youve built up a resume, no large publisher will give you the time of day, whether you have an agent or not. unless youre work is fucking amazing, its simply not as easy as it sounds. stephen king wasn't an instant millionaire, it took years upon years, getting rejected and 1/2 cent per word short story sales before carrie was published.

like i said, i don't want to rain on your parade. god bless you and more power to you, id love everybody to reach their goals. i just don't want you to put all your eggs in one basket and get frustrated if it doesn't happen for you right away. im an aspiring writer too and its goddamn hard man.

[swampthing]

May Ogma smile upon your efforts! Best of luck!