# "Hey, my new book's out!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268 "2001-01-29T15:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/41 "2001-01-30T16:01:25Z")
Oops, simul-post! Cluck—This is my 4th book, and I am in the throes of my 5th, to be published in “aught-two,” as my old first-grade teacher would have said. I write about old movie and theater stars, mostly full-length bios. I only make a teeeeny bit of profit on 'em, after spending a fortune on research and photos, but it’s “what I do.” Everyone needs something to get them out of bed in the morning and not toss themselves under the train on the way to work . . . I’m just happy (and lucky!) to get published. I have finally found a good house I’m happy with for my bios (the University Press of Kentucky), and if I can do a book for them every four or five years, I will be as merry as a grig. [I’m already cute as a bug’s ear] ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/42 "2001-01-30T17:37:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…Thelma is VERY SENSITIVE about her nose. > > Poor little thing with that great honker and her head all bowed down under the weight of it… \*\* Is it some kind of sacriledge that he referred to Toddy AND paraphrased from a Beatles movie in the very same post? And now since I am in the library, I’ll just wander over to bio and see if they have anything from the scribbler in question… ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/43 "2001-01-30T17:55:42Z")
So…if we do drop the $$ for the book, will you autograph it for us? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/44 "2001-01-30T18:49:21Z")
Autograph it? I’ll tuck you in and read it to you at bedtime! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/45 "2001-01-30T18:55:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Jodi—Umm, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but $35 IS the paperback cost. Yeah, I agree, it’s ridiculous, but it’s a small publisher and would’ve been, like, $45 in hardback. Well, what the hell. I’m in. 🙂 Ramen for a few nights is a small price to pay for great literature. Who was it that said, “If I have a little money, I buy books. If I have a little more money, I buy books and food.”? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/46 "2001-01-30T19:10:47Z")
Damn it, Eve! How do you inspire such fanatical devotion? You have them all clamoring for your hand, and I can’t even get anyone to write a short review for me on Amazon. Must be because you’re a Grande dame, and I’m a Short Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/47 "2001-01-30T19:26:12Z")
Damn, I’d tuck **BunnyGirl** into bed and read to her for _nothin’._ ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/48 "2001-01-30T19:56:23Z")
:eek: 😃 /Mae West voice/ Why don’t ya come up some time and…see me? /Mae West voice/ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/49 "2001-01-30T20:07:13Z")
Bunny—I am VERY impressed that you got that Mae West quote correct!!! Ike—You’ll tuck anybody into bed for the price of a half-pint of Night Train. Or, so I’ve heard . . . . Jodi—Yowsah! You definitely get an autograph! Cal—The only way I can explain it is my books have a certain, ummm . . . Well, slutty showgirls, sex, tragic death, drugs. You know, that sorta thing. Throw a coupla slutty showgirls into your books, it really does work wonders. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/50 "2001-01-30T22:32:08Z")
Eve, a question: When a friend authored a book, I seem to recall her telling us that while she loved seeing her “rank” rise on Amazon’s site, she actually got less cash for Amazon sales than other sales. Of course, I think the other sales she was talking about might have been direct from her (she had a stash). Anyway, is there an advantage to you (or your little publisher) for us to order it from a local bookstore over Amazon? Or directly from the publishing house? Or from YOU? You’re not a ghost researcher for “Scandals and Mysteries” are ya? They seem to like to feature the occasional silent film star. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/51 "2001-01-31T00:51:40Z")
slight hijack… I’m at my desk today and my boss shouts out “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” I joke back, “shouldn’t that be ‘I took the road less travelled?’” as I go into her office. She said “Funny. OK, who said it?” I shrugged, then said “Mae West.” She just about freaked. She accused me of looking at her computer screen and cheating. She couldn’t even believe I had heard of Mae West. In truth, it was a guess, but it just sounded like something she would say. Anyway… um…$35 to get Eve to tuck me in at night? Where do I send the check to? Seriously, my friend’s mother absolutely loves classic movies. I’m not sure if that extends to silent films, but I’ll ask her. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/52 "2001-01-31T02:17:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > **Anyway, is there an advantage to you (or your little publisher) for us to order it from a local bookstore over Amazon? Or directly from the publishing house? Or from YOU?** **Eve** will be coming to YOUR town soon, like the Beverly Hillbillies. **Manhattan** will be driving the Model T, **Alphagene** ’ll be carrying the shotgun, **SaxFace** will be the one in the daisydukes, **Eve** ’ll be sitting up in the back seat with her beribboned straw hat waving at everyone, and I’ll be in the trunk, on top of a big pile of books, playing Scruggs-style five-string banjo. Have your cash ready. Cash sales only. Silver preferred. ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268/53 "2001-01-31T02:57:13Z")
I went and ordered my copy before even learning Eve was gonna come read it to me and tuck me in 😉 Though I do wish i had thought to ask about buying it directly from her. Or from the publisher, but I am guessing from the publisher doesn’t net her anything more from the sale. -Doug [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-my-new-books-out/52268.md?page=2)