Celebrate With Me! I Am Published!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I recently Googled my name (I know, how pathetic am I) and discovered a listing in Amazon. It appears I wrote a book 25 years ago.

I have a very unusual first and last name. In fact, I think I’m safe in saying it’s unique in the U.S. So shouldn’t I know if I wrote a book?

25 years ago I was hired to write a handbook on geneology. I finished and, as these things often go, was never paid for it. I assumed the project never went anywhere. But apparently someone took my manuscript, turned it into a finished work, and actually listed me as the author!

No longer am I just a hack writer, ghost writing for clients and getting my name on an occasional magazine article. No sir. I now have an official, actual book credit. I’m not just a hack writer – I’m a hack AUTHOR.

Somewhere out there (in a small college library in Ohio, as near as I can determine) there is a book collection and I’m in it. I am an author. I am immortal.

I shall now light my pipe, mix a pitcher of martinis and await lunch at the Algonquin.

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You rock!

Bus kid attends a small college in Ohio, I shall have her peruse the stacks.

If she steals the book, will you sign it for me?

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It seems most small colleges in Ohio are in the same athletic conference as my school. Can you impart, maybe, which small college this would be?

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kunilou, you get to New York City and we’ll arrange a lunch at the Algonquin for you !!!

:slight_smile: Congrats, this is very cool. You gonna pursue payments for said book? Can I have your autograph?

Cartooniverse

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Congratulations! It’s a real kick when you learn that you were published years ago, but no one told you.

Happened to me, too.

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…without informing you? It’s not that this isn’t really freaking cool - it is - but it seems a bit strange. Shouldn’t someone have told you, not to mention paid you?

The only merit I have in this game is being used as a reference in a history essay. That was kinda cool, though.

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(I’m apparently a professor somewhere in the U.S. and I’ve written a bunch of books. So THERE!)

No, seriously, that rocks. Do you get to wine and dine and cheese with all the other hack authors now? :wink:

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The book is shelved at Cincinnati Christian University and according to their online catalog, it’s available. Think of it. Not only am I an author, but I am nourishing the minds of prospective theologians!

Yes, I suppose I should pursue payment, now that I know there’s tangible evidence that I did the work. However, the amount of money is so small (even in 1980 dollars) that it’s pointless to go after it.

I am, however, astonished that my name remained attached.

Besides, my friends, if someone offered you immortality for the cost of about 30 hours work, wouldn’t you seize it?

I found a copy available, and have ordered it. I shall get one of those fancy shadow box things and display my opus proudly in my study.

And look for my new sig line, coming soon.

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Yeah!!! Way to go!!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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Apparently, I am an author, too. :smiley:

Nah, I decided years ago that if I ever wrote anything, I’d go by Liz Michaels. So watch that best seller list.

Oh, yeah, and congrats, kunilou!!

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I too have Googled my name (doesn’t everyone?), with a pathetic dozen hits. Half of these are from relatives listed in online geneologies, while the rest relate to my connection to Jack the Ripper as father of one of his victims :eek: .