I can't claim it's great literature, or that it's literally great, or that it's particularly literate, but it's a Book !
In fact it's an Electronic Book. It's fantasy. It's Catch 23 meets Harry Potter, meets Game of Thrones, meets the Hobbit, possibly with acid involved. they certainly drink some interesting tea!
Anyhow, if you Dollars to throw away, why not throw them my way, for a funny Ebook!
Link below!
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00XJTETCY
And you are...?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 14, 2015, 05:10:03 PM
And you are...?
I am going to go with "a spammer we will never hear from again".
Tammy, thank you for your post.
Going by your email, you appear to be a real person and not a bot. As such, you should know that while PD does allow members to advertise their own products, we do prefer that members be active parts of the community before doing so.
Yeah, what Cain said, feel free to promote your book, but unless I know you better or you tell me more theres not a hope I'll pick it up.
Quote from: tammywilding on June 14, 2015, 12:40:14 PM
I can't claim it's great literature, or that it's literally great, or that it's particularly literate, but it's a Book !
In fact it's an Electronic Book. It's fantasy. It's Catch 23 meets Harry Potter, meets Game of Thrones, meets the Hobbit, possibly with acid involved. they certainly drink so interesting tea!
Anyhow, if you Dollars to throw away, why not throw them my way, for a funny Ebook!
Link below!
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00XJTETCY
Catch 23 is several seafood restaurants.
Also, according to urban dictionary it is:
Quote1. Revenge for the happening of a catch or catch-22.
2. A consequence for lies or a deceptive course of action.
3. An act of solving a problem by creating a larger problem.
Harry Potter = Ridiculously stupid and inconsistent magic system. Also, irresponsible authority figures.
Game of Thrones = Almost no magic. Also, main characters die.
The hobbit = A story where the hero consistently saves his employers by using common sense, apparently he is the only one who has it.
So we have irresponsible authority figures, important characters die all the time, and common sense is uncommon. In this damn boring setting I would bloody well
need acid to keep awake.
The rest of your post makes me not want to read anything you write.
Well, it's just a socio political comedy, but hey , if you don't want it, you don't have it!
SO, how do you contribute to a forum then?
Who am I?
I'm just another ordinary person who has written a book.
Do I need special qualifications or permission to do that?
Quote from: tammywilding on June 15, 2015, 05:55:53 PM
Well, it's just a socio political comedy, but hey , if you don't want it, you don't have it!
SO, how do you contribute to a forum then?
Who am I?
I'm just another ordinary person who has written a book.
Do I need special qualifications or permission to do that?
No, Tammy, no special qualifications are required. However, while we in fact encourage our members to post their work or links to the sale of their work, we also prefer that they BE members.
Up in the Richard Nixon School of the Arts subforum, there is an introductions thread. Why not post there, and tell us a little something about yourself?
(Watch out for Nigel, though.)
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?board=2.0
The introduction thread is stickied (ie, it's in the top 5 threads on the page at any given moment).
Quote from: tammywilding on June 15, 2015, 05:55:53 PM
Well, it's just a socio political comedy, but hey , if you don't want it, you don't have it!
SO, how do you contribute to a forum then?
Who am I?
I'm just another ordinary person who has written a book.
Do I need special qualifications or permission to do that?
Is this also how you introduce yourself at dinner parties?
HEY BUY MY BOOK why yes hello I would enjoy some salad.
HOW DO YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF OR CONTRIBUTE TO CONVERSATIONS
WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
I LIKE TO BUST INTO RANDOM SOCIAL SPACES AND BE LIKE, FUCKERS, BUY MY BOOOOOOOOOOK
It's supes effective.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 15, 2015, 06:56:00 PM
Quote from: tammywilding on June 15, 2015, 05:55:53 PM
Well, it's just a socio political comedy, but hey , if you don't want it, you don't have it!
SO, how do you contribute to a forum then?
Who am I?
I'm just another ordinary person who has written a book.
Do I need special qualifications or permission to do that?
Is this also how you introduce yourself at dinner parties?
HEY BUY MY BOOK why yes hello I would enjoy some salad.
Sounds almost as appropriate as chatting with your girlfriend's dad about fisting when you first meet him.
Once upon a time I was a member of the Science Fiction club at UMass. We had the moderate honor of being the second largest library of science fiction books in the northeast (damn you, MIT). We were also a bunch of lazy college students and behaved as such. So, one day we realized that there was a mailbox for the club at the Student Union, and nobody had checked it for months. The officers went up there and grabbed a package that had been waiting no shit for at least 3 months. It said "chicken and cheese enchiladas" on the side. "Keep frozen."
The suspicious package was brought down to the campus center basement and a large trash can prepared to dump the contents into as soon as the seals were broken. Someone cut the tape and inside...
Was a pile of books.
The letter inside went something to the effect of "This is my book. I'm really terrible at promoting myself, but I am really good at giving things away. Please take these copies of my book and hand them out to people, and maybe someone will like it!"
I still have a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas on my bookshelf.
Your creative marketing campaign pales in comparison.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 15, 2015, 09:41:20 PM
Once upon a time I was a member of the Science Fiction club at UMass. We had the moderate honor of being the second largest library of science fiction books in the northeast (damn you, MIT). We were also a bunch of lazy college students and behaved as such. So, one day we realized that there was a mailbox for the club at the Student Union, and nobody had checked it for months. The officers went up there and grabbed a package that had been waiting no shit for at least 3 months. It said "chicken and cheese enchiladas" on the side. "Keep frozen."
The suspicious package was brought down to the campus center basement and a large trash can prepared to dump the contents into as soon as the seals were broken. Someone cut the tape and inside...
Was a pile of books.
The letter inside went something to the effect of "This is my book. I'm really terrible at promoting myself, but I am really good at giving things away. Please take these copies of my book and hand them out to people, and maybe someone will like it!"
I still have a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas on my bookshelf.
Your creative marketing campaign pales in comparison.
:lulz: That's still one of my favorite stories.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 16, 2015, 02:02:46 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 15, 2015, 09:41:20 PM
Once upon a time I was a member of the Science Fiction club at UMass. We had the moderate honor of being the second largest library of science fiction books in the northeast (damn you, MIT). We were also a bunch of lazy college students and behaved as such. So, one day we realized that there was a mailbox for the club at the Student Union, and nobody had checked it for months. The officers went up there and grabbed a package that had been waiting no shit for at least 3 months. It said "chicken and cheese enchiladas" on the side. "Keep frozen."
The suspicious package was brought down to the campus center basement and a large trash can prepared to dump the contents into as soon as the seals were broken. Someone cut the tape and inside...
Was a pile of books.
The letter inside went something to the effect of "This is my book. I'm really terrible at promoting myself, but I am really good at giving things away. Please take these copies of my book and hand them out to people, and maybe someone will like it!"
I still have a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas on my bookshelf.
Your creative marketing campaign pales in comparison.
:lulz: That's still one of my favorite stories.
I was worried I might have brought it up here before. Oh well, still relevant.
Wow!
I've read the posts made in reply to my innocent post.
All the posts seem to be from people with anonymous names, pseudonyms.
And they are all so negative!
Truly Greyface appears to rule in the hearts of the membership.
Well, as an unemployed person, I cannot afford to just give away my books.
They only cost £1.99, or $3 anyone who cannot afford that, really shouldn't bother reading my books!
They clearly need the money for more important things!
Thank you again
I would have said for your patience and forebearing with a new author, but there is nothing to thank you for.
Good luck with your lives.
i hope you find some measure of happiness, for your jaded souls, or minds for the atheistic amongst you!
Tammy, My name is Michael.
Let me make it clear that no one has asked you to give away your book for free.
All we asked was you interact with the community a bit before pushing your book, we appreciate you for posting it, but when you are promoting something that's for sale no one here is going to buy it unless you at least make an effort to introduce yourself.
Quote from: tammywilding on June 23, 2015, 10:56:19 AM
I really thought that walking blindly into an established community on the internet, ignoring the local etiquette, hollering about my book, and wandering off would result in sales instead of abuse!
fify
Well I'm sure insulting the userbase will convince them to buy your ebook.
"HEY STRANGERS BUY MY BOOK"
"uhhh... who are you? Maybe you could introduce yourself and let us know why we would be interested?"
"FUCK YOU, YOU ARE MISERABLE MEAN NO FUN MEANIE-PANTS"
Brilliant marketing approach!
Did you take marketing advice from Ben Mack?
Hi tammy,
You seem to have failed to notice that everyone is actually being supremely reasonably and calmly, gently explaining your faux pas to you.
I feel as though you may be the kind of person to miss details like this.
For this reason, having read your bio, I would like to respectfully suggest that when your friend, after you had 'spouted and waxed far too lyrical online', suggested "you should write a book," what they were in fact trying to communicate to you was "please, Tammy, it's 2am I don't want to read your Hagrid/Tyrion slashfic, especially not as rendered by Facebook's messaging service. Go and write these ideas somewhere I don't have to engage with them."
So straight, so square, so greyface, so non discordian, so out of here.
Can't find out how to delete my account, would one of you squares do it for me?
Quote from: tammywilding on July 02, 2015, 06:00:07 PM
So straight, so square, so greyface, so non discordian, so out of here.
Can't find out how to delete my account, would one of you squares do it for me?
1. You guessed it. We're the FAKE Discordians. The real ones are 3 doors down on the left. How clever of you to see through our ruse.
2. We don't delete accounts. Sorry.
This will teach me to be nice to new folks.
Which was a bad idea. I need to go back to the tried-and-true methodology of shitting on them from a great height.
It's better than smiling at cheap hucksters.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6d7uXAXX6nlWjQdLqs0TdGQzD5kITZNL506XmXRuW_8=w596-h556-no)
Quote from: tammywilding on July 02, 2015, 06:00:07 PM
So straight, so square, so greyface, so non discordian, so out of here.
Can't find out how to delete my account, would one of you squares do it for me?
so long.
So where and how can I get a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas?
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 02, 2015, 09:32:03 PM
So where and how can I get a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas?
It's on Amazon! hxxp://www.amazon.co.uk/Terrapin-CAPTAIN-Megaloman-Sidekick-Squidley/dp/0963433229
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 02, 2015, 10:19:00 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 02, 2015, 09:32:03 PM
So where and how can I get a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas?
It's on Amazon! hxxp://www.amazon.co.uk/Terrapin-CAPTAIN-Megaloman-Sidekick-Squidley/dp/0963433229
That is delightful! And only about six bucks with shipping! Sold.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 02, 2015, 10:19:00 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 02, 2015, 09:32:03 PM
So where and how can I get a copy of chicken and cheese enchiladas?
It's on Amazon! hxxp://www.amazon.co.uk/Terrapin-CAPTAIN-Megaloman-Sidekick-Squidley/dp/0963433229
I am highly upset that there are only two reviews, this sounds great.