Random House to Adopt Agency Model Starting 3/1

[Beth_DeEtt]

For your consideration, a new title for this thread:

AGENCY MODEL: ZOMBIE HORSE OF THE APOCOLYPSE

With Bonus Off-Topic Material

Now all we need are a few great boddice-ripping, muscle-bulging, chick-lit covers.  Sounds like there are enough previous threads to furnish the back content for a series! 

[Nallia Distinguished Bibliophile]

Woohoo!  Page 6!  Silly page 10-ish people can't count or something.  That 6 is clear as day.

[Nallia Distinguished Bibliophile]

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Beth_DeEtt wrote:

For your consideration, a new title for this thread:

AGENCY MODEL: ZOMBIE HORSE OF THE APOCOLYPSE

With Bonus Off-Topic Material

Now all we need are a few great boddice-ripping, muscle-bulging, chick-lit covers.  Sounds like there are enough previous threads to furnish the back content for a series! 

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This is my new signature.

[HungerGamesPer…]

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Nallia wrote:

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Beth_DeEtt wrote:

For your consideration, a new title for this thread:

AGENCY MODEL: ZOMBIE HORSE OF THE APOCOLYPSE

With Bonus Off-Topic Material

Now all we need are a few great boddice-ripping, muscle-bulging, chick-lit covers.  Sounds like there are enough previous threads to furnish the back content for a series! 

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This is my new signature.

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Actually it is page 11.

[ABthree]

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Beth_DeEtt wrote:

For your consideration, a new title for this thread:

AGENCY MODEL: ZOMBIE HORSE OF THE APOCOLYPSE

With Bonus Off-Topic Material

Now all we need are a few great boddice-ripping, muscle-bulging vampire, chick-lit covers.  Sounds like there are enough previous threads to furnish the back content for a series! 

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See addition in bold italics above.

[Beth_DeEtt]

@Nallia:  LOL on your signature!  You were the one that first put it in my head, back on page... on page...  never mind what page. 

@ABthree:  How could I have forgotten the vampires?  Boddice-ripping vampires riding zombie horses of the Apocolypse.  Apocolypse Wow!   

[Doug_Pardee Distinguished Bibliophile]

Devon took one last swing at what had once been a magnificent stallion, but now was destined to become dog food. The heavy stick landed with a thump on the animal's flank, but it didn't have any more effect than the previous six hundred or so attempts. Agency Model just lay there, inert. And Devon's plow wasn't going anywhere, either.

He pondered the situation, then trotted off toward the barn. It was almost sundown before he'd finished the task of hitching up a team of six dead horses. Certainly that would be enough horsepower to make a furrow. Exhausted from the effort of dragging necrotic equines around, he sat down on a stump, took a long pull on his canteen, and wiped his brow.

Devon's girlfriend Ellie climbed over the nearby fence and ambled in his direction. "Hey, is that my peasant blouse you're wiping your brow with?"

"Um, no." He figured that the gloom of dusk would hide the evidence of his little fetish. Peasant blouse, handkerchief, they all look the same in the dark, right?

Ellie squared up in front of him, planted her boots a couple of feet apart, and parked her hands on her hips. "Is so. Gimme." She grabbed a corner of the fabric, but Devon held on. "I said, gimme!"

Devon tried to figure a way out of this pickle. It'd be bad enough if it was her blouse. It'd be even worse if it wasn't her blouse. "It's just my handkerchief." Quick thinker, that Devon. "Run home and see if your blouse isn't—"

He gaped at the horses. All six of them were standing, and they were pulling the harness tight against the whippletree. Devon lunged for the plow handles and caught them just in time; the plow sliced through the earth of The Apocalypse Farm, powered by the team of zombie horses. The blouse, alas, was firmly clenched between his hand and the plow handle, and Ellie's stubborn refusal to let go resulted in it being ripped right through the bodice.

THE END.

Bonus material: It's still National Grammar Day here, and you'll notice in the third paragraph that there are no commas around Ellie's name. That makes it a restrictive rather than nonrestrictive appositive. Commas are important.

[Ya_Ya]

Seriously Doug?  You rock.  

And this?

"Bonus material: It's still National Grammar Day here, and you'll notice in the third paragraph that there are no commas around Ellie's name. That makes it a restrictive rather than nonrestrictive appositive. Commas are important."

I swooned.  

[ABthree]

@Doug_Pardee

Definitely an "A".

Could've been an "A+", though, if you had only included

1. some apostrophes (or "apostrophe's", as people like to put in their posts), and

2. a vampire.

[ellsbells930]

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mpebbs wrote:

  I think calling anyone a fool for doing something you would not is a personal attack even if you do not name them. I also think using smilies to offset a really snarky comment is ridiculous, we are not fools in actuality.

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Ok --so you can have the OPINION that using smilies is ridiculous, but I can't have the OPINION that people who blindly accept prices on products are fools?   Hmmm..... seems a bit hypocritical.....Here's a smiley just for you:  

[HungerGamesPer…]

Agency model just lay there inert.

I can't lie, I laughed my face off!

[Doug_Pardee Distinguished Bibliophile]

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ABthree wrote:

1. some apostrophes (or "apostrophe's", as people like to put in their posts), and

2. a vampire.

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I considered putting in a vampire, but there's only so much you can do in first-draft flash fiction, especially when it's past your bedtime. And if there's any mercy in the universe, I won't be doing a second draft of this piece.

As for apostrophes, I did use the other type of apostrophe. In the sentence "Quick thinker, that Devon," the narrator directly addresses the reader. That form of apostrophe is generally frowned upon in modern fiction writing, but I must maintain my reputation as a notorious literary rebel.

[mpebbs]

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ellsbells930 wrote:

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mpebbs wrote:

  I think calling anyone a fool for doing something you would not is a personal attack even if you do not name them. I also think using smilies to offset a really snarky comment is ridiculous, we are not fools in actuality.

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Ok --so you can have the OPINION that using smilies is ridiculous, but I can't have the OPINION that people who blindly accept prices on products are fools?   Hmmm..... seems a bit hypocritical.....Here's a smiley just for you:  

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Even though this ship has sailed half way across the globe at this point...I said I found the practice of putting a smiley beside an insult ridiculous, yes that is my opinion. I did not, however call people fools. IN my OPINION there is a difference between opinion having and name calling.

[HungerGamesPer…]

Maybe we are taking the "random" in random house a little too seriously

[HungerGamesPer…]

Nalia:

I like your newest signature. I makes it easer to find this!  

Right to the story!

[chesspain]

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Htom_Serveaux wrote:

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shadowcat80 wrote:

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That actually is a bad comparrision because it isn't easy to pirate books, while with the right software you can rip a CD for mp3 format easily.  The publishers control the access to the e-book formats so, they can't really worry about the same issue that music industry had.

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It's actually very easy to pirate books.  It's exactly the same process as pirating music.  DRM is trivial to remove if you want to do it, and more than one application exists to do so.

But, the point I was trying to make wasn't that books *are* pirated, it's that publishers and some authors *believe* they will be pirated, and behave (with their pricing model and discouragement of ebook distribution) according to that belief.

I think their belief is unfounded, but it only matters what they believe, not what I think.

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While I am no fan of publishing houses or the Agency Model, I think it is naive to assume that DRM-free books would not endlessly be passed around, if not actually pirated.  Although there are some people, such as my former in-laws, who mail books around the country to each other after they have read them, most individuals do not go through the time and expense to find/purchase a mailing envelope, bring it to the post office, and then pay the few bucks it costs to send it to someone else.  Of course, there are some people who do pass around their books locally, but do most of these locally read books really end up through more than a few sets of hands?

On the other hand, how many more people would get to read a book without paying for it if copying a book (or even passing it around) was as easy as Copy...Attach...Send?

[Nallia Distinguished Bibliophile]

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HungerGamesPerson wrote:

Nalia:

I like your newest signature. I makes it easer to find this!  

Right to the story!

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The title was great on its own, but Doug's addition of the story elevated it to pure genius.  I couldn't just let it get lost!

[HungerGamesPer…]

I don't think I'll ever forget this! I have been laughing for 2 days straight!

[mpebbs]

So what can we do with attacking rabid werebunnies mwahahhahh, oh no wait...this sound more like a fox tv special.

[Beth_DeEtt]

*holding a light aloft for Doug*  AUTHOR!  AUTHOR!!!

Spoiler:  Ellie's a vampire.  Devon's troubles are about to get harrowing (see what I did there?).

Though I think we also need mpebbs' "ship [that] has sailed half way across the globe", in case of pirates.  Hope they bring their own bodices to rip.