The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114877 Message #2456277
Posted By: bankley
03-Oct-08 - 07:52 AM
Thread Name: MotH--from Murdoch
Subject: RE: MotH--from Murdoch
I had a friend who was a really fine author, among many other things, he once wrote a 1200 page book/CD-Rom called 'The Encylopedia of Survival" and also 'Surviving Terrorism'... which became quite popular in places like Montana.. anyhow, he also wrote a lot of short stories and articles... some were published, in 'Hustler', (The World History of Hooking), 'Ladies Home Journal', 'Redbook' etc... great sense of humour... shortly before he died he showed me a folder of all the rejection letters that he rec'd from diverse companies and publishers.... over 120 in all... he intended to turn this material into yet another book.... he was truly funny... I learned a lot from him, mostly to just keep plugging away and not take it too personally.... oh yeah, this is the same man that was awarded the Meritorious Servive Medal by JFK for helping diffuse the Cuban missile crisis... another funny story...involving lots of Vodka, Marlboro smokes and Russian Officers..
The best place to sell CDs is still at gigs... so lots of luck with nailing down some quality 'live' work in the not too distant.. The cyber-tools are useful in that respect....