# Still MORE shameless self-promotion! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311 "2000-03-29T14:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/1 "2000-03-29T14:04:00Z")
OK, I know I sound like I’m bragging—but really, I’m just excited and want to share this with you guys—my publisher has just posted a site for my new book: [http://www.uky.edu/UniversityPress/books/annaheld.html](http://www.uky.edu/UniversityPress/books/annaheld.html) Any of you wanna critique the sample chapter? It’s too late to make changes, but any over coyness or clunky phrasing can be taken into account when writing my next book . . . Again, please bear with me, this is just my way of jumping up & down and yelling “woo-hoo!” in a Homer Simpsonlike manner! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/2 "2000-03-29T14:51:00Z")
How do you do it? T.V. interviews, AMC, writing biographies. I write fiction and the amount of research I have to do is close to annoying. Yet you do all of this plus, you are here at this distracting, production reducing, addictive, board. Kudos ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/3 "2000-03-29T17:38:00Z")
Well, the first thing I noticed was that the _Publishers Weekly_ quote misspells “succumb.” More as I read… * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/4 "2000-03-29T17:41:00Z")
Oh, and the _Booklist_ quote misspells “producer.” I’m going to go away and read the sample chapter now… 😃 ## Eve honey, am I impressing you with my laser-sharp proofreading skills yet? Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/5 "2000-03-29T17:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Biggirl: > How do you do it? T.V. interviews, AMC, writing biographies. I write fiction and the amount of research I have to do is close to annoying. > **Yet you do all of this plus, you are here at this distracting, production reducing, addictive, board. > Kudos** Don’t forget comma spice-inducing. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/6 "2000-03-29T17:45:00Z")
Whew! I’m going to have to print that out and pore over it to see if I can improve it at all, or only “improve” it (I’m sure you know the difference). I’ll email you my edits if you really want me to…some people say they want your criticism when they really just want you to tell them it’s wonderful. (I am not, of course, insinuating that you are one of those people.) * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/7 "2000-03-29T17:48:00Z")
Well, good for you for allowing my alma mater’s publishing company to produce your worthy book! * * * Been here so long he’s got to calling it Home. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/8 "2000-03-29T17:52:00Z")
Karma, you really have it in for me dontcha? I’m sure you meant comma splice, but I’m not nitpicking. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/9 "2000-03-29T17:55:00Z")
The book jacket is beautiful, Eve. Congrats on all the fabulous reviews! I started reading the chapter, but it’s too long to tackle at work, so I’m printing it to read later. Looks like it’s going to be a fun read. * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/10 "2000-03-30T06:33:00Z")
Eve Golden once again picks up her brush, and with bold, sure strokes, paints for us yet another portrait of a bygone era. This time, the spotlight is on Anna Held, the charismatic and enigmatic darling of Broadway at the turn of the century. Golden’s meticulous and scholarly research reveals to us such little known facts as Held’s Jewish parentage, her previous marriages and an estranged daughter, while deftly weaving a tapestry of sights, sounds and events of a magical era that is long gone. We discover that, were it not for Held, there might never have been a Zigfield Follies. Golden takes us by the hand and leads us to Paris to introduce us to the Folies Bergere, bring us back to new York and shows us Broadway as it was, takes us behind the scenes and into the lives of the famous, the almost famous and the infamous. She leads well, for she knows the way. In conclusion, buy this book, or I will hunt you down and kill you. * * * Dubbed _The Skunk of Holes_ by some putz who’s name I have fortunately forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/11 "2000-03-30T06:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Biggirl: > **Karma, you really have it in for me dontcha? > I’m sure you meant comma splice, but I’m not nitpicking.** No baby, your commas are spicy! OK OK OK, let’s not let the irony of typos in corrections go unnoticed. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/12 "2000-03-30T06:56:00Z")
Karma, would you please fuck off back to the pit where you belong? And if you must post to these threads, would you kindly contibute instead of hijacking? Thank you ever so much. Putz. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/13 "2000-03-29T19:04:00Z")
Thanks, y’all, I hope you enjoy it! Boy, this thread sure jumped up around lunchtime! Wally—Are you hinting that you want to be quoted on my back cover? “Buy this or I’ll kill you!” says WallyM7 of the SDMB! Chef—What I really would like is STYLE critiques; if my publisher spelled something wrong (there are a few missing punctuations and misplaced itals in the piece online, which better not show up in the book!), I don’t wanna know, as it’s too late to fix. But if you think I’m being overly glib, or not glib enough, or use run-on sentences, etc. Y’know, things I can watch out for in my next book. —“Airy, Fairy Eve” ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/14 "2000-03-29T20:05:00Z")
Eve Golden, looking for tips and tricks on writing techniques? Eve, you’re not a rookie. You’re a wordsmith, a published author. What can we tell you? Okay, here’s my advice: Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it. By the way, don’t authors get a bunch of complimentary copies? To _give_ to pals? Love your stuff, pal. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/15 "2000-03-29T20:17:00Z")
Hey, pal— I get ten (count 'em!) free copies, all of which I have to use to bribe people to help me with my NEXT book . . . ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/16 "2000-03-29T20:29:00Z")
Okay, I’ll spend the 50 sheckels, but you have to autograph it. I’ll pay for the S&H. None of that generic _Best Wishes, Eve Golden_ crap. It has to be personal, so that my friends will eat their livers. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/17 "2000-03-29T21:19:00Z")
Wally, Eve autographed my copy of “Vamp”. The result? All of my friends are very jealous - the message was a personal inside joke and hilarious any way one reads it. Our Eve doesn’t dissapoint! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/18 "2000-03-29T21:22:00Z")
Yes, Sax, but have your friends eaten their livers yet? Judging by the binge-drinking at the NY get-togethers, that must be some eatin’! ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/19 "2000-03-29T22:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Any of you wanna critique the sample chapter? \ Eve, you’re really asking for it when you say that around here… :o * * * _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311/20 "2000-03-30T02:04:00Z")
Eve! What are the names of your other books again? I look for your name every time I go to Borders, but I never see it. I am desperate for that Theda Bara book! And now that I’ve got a credit card, I may have to do some shopping online. 🙂 Unless you wanna send me a free copy… 😃 * * * This space blank, until Wally thinks up something cool to put here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-shameless-self-promotion/15311.md?page=2)