Comments on: News flash! Novelists on strike!

By: Elizabeth Wiggs

Elizabeth Wiggs — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:29:24 +0000

Did you catch the reference to Pomona College in there? Props to the Sagehens! Maybe one day we’ll be as much of a household name as the Ivey Leagues….

By: april

april — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:43:43 +0000

Oh, I had to explain the Richard Bachman to my husband. I don’t think he’ll find it as amusing as I do.

By: FatherRay

FatherRay — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:04:51 +0000

By Gosh and by Golly!!! This is wonderful! This cloud does have a silver linining! One man’s goose is another man’s gander, don’t cha know?

Maybe NOW some ignrnt publisher will will publish my lackluster Best Seller “For Who the Ding-Dong Rings” - it has no redeeming virtues whatsoever - but I am sure it is just what they are looking for!

The last rejection letter said something about the right time being related to flying pigs …maybe NOW the buggers won’t be so persnickity.

…and maybe… just maybe I can also find a buyer for my 3,728 page novella that is holding up one corner of my bed.

Sorry gotta go …and make grass while the moonshines and strike while the grits are cold ….opportunities like this only happen when jupiter is cussing at mars ….after all it is in the stars right?

By: wendy roberts

wendy roberts — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:21:04 +0000

Cracked me up! The best part was when it said “at least one novelist may be breaking the strike by writing under the pseudonym ‘Richard Bachman.’” LOL!

By: april

april — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:05:53 +0000

I love The Onion. I see the paper copy in the newsstands, but I haven’t picked one up yet. The best part is coming online, reading one story, clicking on a link to another and wasting like 2 hours.

I love the little throwaway lines like so-and-so is a computer analyst and avid golfer. Funny stuff that only readers/novelists will find funny, I bet.