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A convicted killer. A published author.

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by QYFW, Jul 3, 2017.

  1. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

  2. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    If he thinks things look bleak now, wait until he sees that first royalty check.
     
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  3. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

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  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    All you have to do is murder someone to send your kids to college.

    Last year, Jarrett Haley, the founder of a small literary magazine, Bull, gave a selection of the stories to a literary agent, Sandra Dijkstra. A few days after she signed Mr. Dawkins, Ms. Dijkstra sold the stories to Scribner for a low-six-figure advance; Mr. Dawkins’s share goes into an education fund for his children.
     
  5. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    How bad do you want to be a published author? Bad enough to kill?
     
  6. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    He'd have nothing to write about if he hadn't killed someone and gone to prison.
     
  7. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

  8. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Reminds me of the great SNL sketch with Eddie Murphy as Tyrone Green, the Angriest Poet of the Bedford-Stuyvesant School of Poetry. This is the best known segment thereof. The piece -- can't find the whole thing -- begins with Swifty Lazar, literary agent, saying, "I tell my clients: If you commit a crime, we'll talk."
     
  9. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    It's just hidden under a different title ;)
     
  10. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    [QUOTE="QYFW, post: 4253987, member: 149538

    I sure do read more when the politics thread is shuttered.

    [/QUOTE]
    Worst part of that is that super dink @YankeeFan is now popping up in disparate forums. I liked him largely confined to the politics thread where he could retweet shit and argue in defense of the moron in chief. Now he's like the undead walking around aimlessly.
     
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  11. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    Now I picture Yankee Fan as that guy on the end credits of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "Grrr. Arrgh."
     
  12. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Worst part of that is that super dink @YankeeFan is now popping up in disparate forums. I liked him largely confined to the politics thread where he could retweet shit and argue in defense of the moron in chief. Now he's like the undead walking around aimlessly.[/QUOTE]

    In the words of Starman, suck it up.
     
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