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" I will study and get ready and someday my chance will come." - A. Lincoln

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Happy birthday [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]!

Brdgt, this is for you

Jeff VanderMeer explains how he came up with the idea for "The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases." Writers like Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, and others contributed stories of fantastic and strange new diseases.

http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/v/vandermeerjeff.jsp

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A writer will need another job if she has to depend on Canadian sales alone. She will have to teach creative writing. In Canada, a country of more than 30 million people, a novel is considered to have sold respectably if three thousand copies leave the shelf. You do the math: 3,000 x $3.20, minus 15 per cent, minus hundreds of dollars in expenses, minus your advance on these royalties, divided by four or five (depending on how many years the book took to write), equals, on a bad day, a fairly deep sense of futility.

-Caroline Adderson