Monday, January 15, 2007
Seven, the number of posts with actual news
Ho hum........
Todays post by Anya sees more piffle about how hard it was to write the book and even more reminscing about being homeless.
From the amount of whining she does about it, you'd think she had been homeless for years instead of a few months but I guess she has to keep harping on about it as you can bet your bottom dollar that the book promotion will feature homelessness as the tag to draw unsuspecting gullible readers in.
It really does look like she can't be arsed writing anything of note these days and every posts highlights the fact that the entire blog is merely a stopgap till the book promotion gets into full swing.
Even the links have been changed to self congratulatory and self promoting.
Does anyone even read it these days?
I only do so out of a keen sense of duty to my readers but with so little happening these days, it seems that the impetus has been lost and Harper Collins made a big mistake in throwing hard cash at a homeless bum with no story to tell.
Not that it stopped her coming up with something to justify the bundle of moolah though!
The last post with any actual news was way back in November (when she confessed to losing her mind).
I can't help feeling that when the book is finally released and the blog is pointed out as the source of it all, those dozens of new readers who pop along for a butchers are going to be sorely disappointed with the actual content.
Much like we are everytime she posts..............
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Just checking up on things on both sides of the Wandering Scribe fence, haven't been around for months. I can't believe you're still at it mate. Got me wondering, not that it matters, are you sitting on a manuscript but can't get a literary agent? Then along comes a woman who seems to luck into a lot of publicity and a book deal. Am I tracking? So, either you're a poor pathetic loser boy who can't hold down a job, or a real writer who spends too much time researching why people continue to guzzle gin, in the first person. Snap out of it, man. If you mean to kill this woman, get on with it, so we can read about your sad story. Or write a book and get rich doing it. That should show her, eh? Or are you in cahoots with her -- you know -- good cop/badcop action, a PR ploy to sell the book? Seriously, go write your own book. Looks like you have the staying power and a pretty fertile mind, too. And get a girl, a young one who is fond enough of you to keep you in smokes and copy bond. She'll help keep the creative juices flowing & your mind out of the gutter.
Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
I hate to burst your bubble regarding all your wild and fanciful notions about the reason d étre for this site but it does what it says on the tin.
No hidden agenda.
No book to sell.
No axe to grind on Anyas head.
Just here to offer a bit of balance.
Hugs and kisses in a marathon runner stylee........
Queen Anya of Lanewayshire
Just musing aloud... but does it strike anyone else as odd that, when (allegedly) homeless in a car and living on the breadline, WS found the time to write endless reams of fluent tosh, yet now, with the comfort of a roof over her head (and a jutty-out kitchen), some serious dosh in her bank account and no need to scrape a living, she can't manage even a post a month ? I would have thought the contrasts between the laneway and the house would have provided ample material for huggy-feely introspection.
Also, the latest post, 15/1/07 - "But at least it's [the writing] over now". Well, excuse me, but where does that announcement leave this post, dated 21/11/06: "It is done. I did it...it's finished...out there...being chewed, and heavily scribbled, over by my editor, in green ink. But I did it, it's over".
Unless, of course, the publishers read the original text and thought "****, we're in big trouble - call the ghost writer - FAST !!"
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