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Psycho Hosebeast

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This Barbara Bauer person is still going about and threatening to sue people for perfectly legal activity.

Barbara Bauer is all whiny that she got listed on the “Twenty Worst Scammers” list when it comes to scamming people who want to become authors. Perhaps, instead, she should STOP SCAMMING WRITERS.

She’s now brought down a major forum for up and coming writers, called Absolute Write, by making irate phone calls and spewing retarded filth that she thinks are lawyer-speak. Posting this woman’s email address on the web, and thereby opening her up to spammers (same email address is readily available at her own website, BTW) does not make the company a spammer. Nor is spamming made illegal in the DMCA. Just… just… ARGH, JUST STOP SUCKING OUT MY INTELLIGENCE! You are SCAMMING people. You were CAUGHT. SUCK IT UP! ARGHQ@*)($&@WPODFJDS:8PWJF!one!:LKFDKSJ*STABSTABSTABBITYSTAB*

*breathe*

Barbara Bauer is much like those ignorant fools that would call in to tech support and demand that they wouldn’t have to pay their bills or that we have to Fix It Right Now because they know a lawyer. I don’t like Barbara Bauer or what she’s doing.

So I, like many other people, are linking Barbara Bauer to the aforementioned Twenty Worst Scammers list, thereby upping Google’s correlation between that list and her name.

Slacktivism? Maybe. Poetic justice? Certainly.

This is important enough to share.

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made this post about feeling like a failure sometimes.

Turns out that even the most successful often feel this way. Well, I’ve got something to share, and hope that admitting this helps to make me a better person.

Sometimes, I feel like an absolute, complete, and total failure.

This is not a call for sympathy, alert of current emotional state, or a need to come to terms. I just think you guys should know. :)

Horoscope

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Surveys show that 21 percent of the population say they’re “regularly bored out of their minds.” If those surveys included astrological data in their research, I bet they’d find that among Tauruses who suffer bouts of boredom, 85 percent are most susceptible to that state during the end of May and the first half of June. That’s why I encourage you to make dramatic efforts to keep yourself stimulated and amused in the coming days. Don’t fall prey to the lowest common denominator of plain old ordinary fate. Use your imagination to fill your schedule with novelty, intrigue, learning experiences, and high adventure.

Horoscope

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is a time when you must put one concern above all others: being true to yourself. Don’t you dare elevate other people’s needs above your own. Don’t you dare let their guilt trips manipulate you into watering down your interesting quirks. You have simply got to devote yourself exuberantly to your idiosyncratic dreams. You owe it to yourself to learn all you can about your innermost secrets and ripening mysteries. You need to be ingeniously obsessed with serving your deepest, wildest, most noble longings.

Looking for artists to work on a comic book.

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This started out as the super-secret project. I’ve let it stall countless times. The novel is done and out there (preview and novel are both still available here). I have no classes over the summer. I have a part-time work schedule. The brunt of my focus now lands squarely on the comic book. On Steven.

The plan is to have a different artist working on each issue. Characters will be recognizable throughout, but I’d like to showcase the talent of as many artists as I can. Also, with seven different artists working on seven different issues at the same time, I can have (in theory) the full project completed before I release the first issue. None of that pesky lateness that small comic publishers have become known for.

This is what I’ve got up on the web site:

Dark Eternity Publications is now accepting artist’s submissions for our primary comic line: Steven. If selected to work on the comic, you will be paid, provided the issue that you work on makes a profit. This is a serious (and yet friendly – heh) venture, and deadlines will be involved. Please do not submit if you can’t complete projects within reasonable time frames.


Please send all submissions to dave at darketernity dot net.

This is the email that went out to the current artists, in an effort to kick all of us in the butt:

Hey, all. I’ve got the defibrillator paddles out, and I’m doing this once again.

The Steven Comic Book will happen. Now that the novel has been released, and signings are getting scheduled, I’m going to focus on my next project. And that is Steven. There are some things that I will need from all of you, and there are some things that I will want from you.

Here are the things that I need. If these don’t work out for you, and you need to bow out, I will not take offense, and I will not be hurt. :)

1 – Character sketches. I need sketches for the main characters that are in your chapters by Monday, 22 May 2006. I’ve requested this before, and am going to have to insist upon it as a first step. There is some marketing that I would like to be able to do, as far as the website and flyers are concerned, and the character sketches are essential to that.

2 – Respect for reasonable deadlines. I need you to be able to respond to reasonable deadlines. I need to know if they’re not reasonable, or if extensions are needed, but I need deadlines to be able to be deadlines.

3 – Communication. I’d be a liar if I said that I’d been even decent about this with regards to the comic. I’m going to need regular communication and updates and questions and input and etc. and further and whatnot. I promise to return this.

4 – Straightforward honesty. If you’re unsure about something, please let me know, If you need extensions on deadlines, let me know. If you think that I’m full of the most rancid cow shit EVAR, let me know. :) I want to minimize drAma and miscommunication from here on out.

Here are the things that I want. Totally optional, but exceedingly helpful.

1 – Feedback and suggestions for the website. http://www.darketernity.net/ Pretty self-explanatory. I want it to be -good-. I may be getting a professional web designer in the near future, but I’ll still need your input for what you think it should be.

2 – Adoring affection and excessive stroking of my ego. Or not. ;)

If bowing out is the way to go for you, please, just let me know, and unsubscribe from the Yahoo! Group. We’ll still be friends, I promise. Heh.

If you’re interested, or know someone who would be interested, please make contact. I’m itching to get this moving again.

There has just been so much.

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said it well in her post.

Saturday night, at IPM, was a blast. The biggest surprise was Dgoe, who seemed to materialize out of a fine mist of Mountain Dew. Honestly, you can best get the gist of the party by listening to it live over at the website. Make sure that you snag the 05.06.2006 recording. Not so much of the drunken debauchery, but energy drinks and hugging and signing and clumsily reading and friends and awesomeness. Just amazing.

Sunday, at the Gone Wired Cafe, was also an amazing time. I ended up with about four hours of sleep, we drove back into Lansing (which means that drove back into Lansing), spent a few minutes at our house cleaning up a bit more, and then headed out to Clara’s to meet some family for brunch. From there, we went over and set up the signing at the cafe. After 2 hours, we were down to three books. Three minutes later, we were down to two. We called the people that had reserved books, but hadn’t paid for them, to see if they were coming. We sold out by 5:30.

I’m gonna say this again.

We sold out three and a half hours before the scheduled ending of the signing.

By the time 7 o’clock came around, we were starving, so we closed up shop and headed out for dinner. My apologies to and Scott Thom for this, but we stuck it out as long as we could. Benny went home and crashed, and I hung out with some peoples for the rest of the day.

For those that missed out, never fear. There is a likely, but unconfirmed, signing at Everybody Reads in June. Watch for it. :)