PUBLISHIN' HoL [Archive]

FRANCIS K.

11-02-2003, 06:49 PM

Can anyone provide me with detailed info on how Danielewski got HoL published?

DeathandMaiden

11-02-2003, 07:04 PM

He didn't publish it. It has always been. Like salt. Salt is always there. The book is like salt. It has never not been; it always has.

ass_shaped_smile

11-02-2003, 07:21 PM

Who the fuck is Danielewski?

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 08:59 AM

You guys are so... thoughtful, and... creative, yes; creative and thoughtful.
Faggots.

Ra-ra

11-03-2003, 09:05 AM

Flattery will get you nowhere images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

sal

11-03-2003, 09:09 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:
Can anyone provide me with detailed info on how Danielewski got HoL published?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think he just did what people usually do when they have something they want published. He sent it to a whole lot of publishers hoping for someone to take the bait.

DeathandMaiden

11-03-2003, 09:28 AM

sticks and stones, don't you know.
But whips and chains images/smiles/icon_wink.gif
Flattery will get you everywhere HA HA HA!!!!!!!!

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 10:43 AM

Detailed, sal, I said detailed.

fatwoul

11-03-2003, 12:13 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:
Detailed, sal, I said detailed.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Please, sal, allow me:

I think he just did what people usually do when they have something they want published. He sent it to a whole lot of publishers hoping for someone to take the bait, you twat.

Is that enough extra detail for you, cocksucker? images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 12:17 PM

No it's not. Where's the detail in that? Again, where's the detail in that, twat?

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 12:19 PM

Sal, I believe you to be a kind individual.

I love arguing with dumb monkeys.

fatwoul

11-03-2003, 12:33 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:
...I love arguing with dumb monkeys.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well then maybe you should go find some, or I will hit 5000 sooner than I expected. images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 01:01 PM

You are quite proud of the number of posts you've acquired huh?
That's pretty neat. I can't beleive that you have that many.

Ellimist

11-03-2003, 01:08 PM

F.P. = fucking pathetic or futile parishioner?

Just find addresses of some publishers.
Try www.vintagepress.com. (http://www.vintagepress.com.)
By "address", I mean actual physical address. Why the hell did you come on here to ask where to publish a book? Shit.

After getting these addresses. Send them a letter asking them to review a copy of your manuscript and see if they can publish it. You may or may not get it back. They will also send you a letter accepting or rejecting your book. It is much like getting into college. Fix the problems in your work and send it again. Each revision, send to more publishers.
http://www.google.com USE IT. Find publishers.

Guess what... I just made all this shit up. How hard is that to figure out? Goddamn, I am tired of stupid people.

[ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: Ellimist ]

fatwoul

11-03-2003, 01:15 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:
You are quite proud of the number of posts you've acquired huh?
That's pretty neat. I can't beleive that you have that many.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not including my few HoL-related posts, I think I have about 25 posts to every dumb-ass n00b who has come around here trying to be clever.

That is because it usually takes me about 25 posts to get rid of them. images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 01:38 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ellimist:
F.P. = fucking pathetic or futile parishioner?

Why the hell did you come on here to ask where to publish a book? Shit.

Guess what... I just made all this shit up. How hard is that to figure out? Goddamn, I am tired of stupid people.

[ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: Ellimist ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I did not come here to figure out how to publish A book. I came here to find out how Mark Danielewski published HIS book.
Understand yet?
I know how books are published. I'm a published author. I've done it.
Go to sleep.
Thanks,
Futile Parishoner

[ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: F.P. ]

FRANCIS K.

11-03-2003, 01:40 PM

And you, FatWoul. You will never get rid of me. For I am much, much smarter than you.
You MOOK!

fatwoul

11-03-2003, 01:44 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:
And you, FatWoul. You will never get rid of me. For I am much, much smarter than you.
You MOOK!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Of course you are. You're a published author!! images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif

Well, so am I, so to speak, and I can tell you that you are just a sack of shit tied up in the middle.

Have a nice day. images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

ass_shaped_smile

11-03-2003, 02:35 PM

My aunt works at a big printing firm in New York and I asked her how a writer goes about getting something published a little while back. She said that just sending a manuscript to a publishing firm never works, they just dont look at them. What you have to do is get an agent first who will then take the mauscript to the publisher. Thats the way she described it at least, there might be a few success stories out there of people that just went straight to the publisher but from the way she described it it seems unlikely.

kitsune

11-03-2003, 04:06 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:

I did not come here to figure out how to publish A book. I came here to find out how Mark Danielewski published HIS book.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There are only so many ways one can have his book published. What exactly do you wish to know? What publisher? How he was accepted?

We aren't psychic, you know!

sal

11-03-2003, 11:00 PM

Well, you're sure not helping us much. You could, for instance, tell us what kind of details you're interested in?

DeathandMaiden

11-04-2003, 09:21 PM

Ahhhh, but don't you see cousin, there are some things that you must learn the hard way: just asking will never a real answer for you to find, shall you. But on the other hand, providing the answer in this house of horrors yourself will allow you to discover the true question that your answer desires, savvy?
Or, on the other hand you can do just as I have done and tap into the colon that is Fatwoul's fingers like so many people have done (I must admit... I've had the pleasure of his/her... you never know on a message board now do you... "productive" words) and learn the hard way that you yourself must the answer to provide in order to learn what your question really was.
Or a third route to the question or the answer or even the total thereof that you wish to seek may very well be that you need to read some of these texts backwards rather than forwards, then may you know the correct combinations of answers to questions and questions to answeres that you may desire, if that is indeed your wish.
But cousin, there are so many pitfalls to this meathod that very few survive such travels, and those who do return... spew forth mounds of shit and stare wildeyed at the sun for long hours, screaming of such sights that the very echo of their voices would drive the already somewhat of precarious nature over the edge to insanity.
Wasn't there something about MZD doing the typsetting all by his lonesome? I don't know. Look it up.

DaethisJain

11-05-2003, 12:13 PM

hmm.

Stencil

11-06-2003, 03:51 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by F.P.:
I know how books are published. I'm a published author. I've done it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

What book have you had published?

Anyway, as I see it, Danielewski apparently put a version on the internet for friends to read, then word of mouth helped him get it published in the way he wanted it, then it was (re-) published on i-universe in weekly segments in order (I'd guess) to build more of an audience then it was published in book form. Some disagree with elements of the above (e.g. that there was ever an internet edition).