Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Larry Dierker back with Astros as special assistant
(blog.chron.com)
Somebody dig up McLean Stevenson…it’s been renewed!
Read More...Larry Dierker, who has been a part of Major League Baseball in Houston as a player, manager and broadcaster for almost a half-century, will rejoin the team as a special assistant to new Astros president of business operations Reid Ryan, the team announced today.
“I’ll be doing some writing and will be a right-hand man for Reid, mostly in the area of public relations,” Dierker said. “I get the feeling that I will gravitate to the area ...
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1. RepozTop Secret Briefing, Oval Room, White House:
CIA Man: "It is destabilizing quickly, the situation will likely blow up in 48 hours if we can't contain it now."
President: "But where can we find a man that can trade for middling bullpen arms that quickly?"
Everybody around the table looks grim.
Cut to Phillies front office.
That's not necessarily true in the brave new world of the Kindle and e-books in general. There's little capital outlay to consider for an author*, and the prospect of keeping 70% of the gross is tempting.
*) Though a serious self-publisher would probably buy some editing and proof-reading help.
Never heard from again.
Don't care what the novelist did
Will never will hear from Wade again.
I hope this is a joke and you're not that far behind the times. 'Real' publishers mostly today like to buy novels that have potentially wide readerships with themes they can spin into a series. The quality of a story doesn't have much to do with whether or not a 'real' publisher looks on it favorably.
There is 'real' self-publishing, vanity pressings, and totally delusional publishing. Have no idea where Ed's book belongs. Hope it's the first group.
I'm sure this is true on average. But then again there are many, popular or famous authors that claimed to have shopped around their ideas for years getting rejected dozens of times.
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