"He stole my family lands and tortured my sister Madrene. Think Hitler on a longship."
When I was sixteen years old, in the year 1000 AD, my father, myself, and eight of my brothers and sisters boarded a longship. We left behind at Norstead, my family's estates, my brother Ragnor and my sister Madrene, both of whom you've met. While in Iceland, or Greenland, or wherever the hell we ended up, a strange storm overtook us, and we saw a vision where this elderly woman was praying.
When we woke up, we were still in our longship, but we had landed in modern-day California. Ragnor and Madrene came here later, at different times
Are you really suggesting that she read those dino erotica books?Ok, this looks like a fun one, thanks Athene!
Maybe we can have the "Girl and triceratops in hot steamy action" .
If she did, she wouldn't be able to post her reactions. So in the interests of seeing all of her suffering, let's not encourage this.Are you really suggesting that she read those dino erotica books?
My current status is this:
Thanks to McDonalds. So I will update when I can D:
Trashy romances aside, there will always be Vanity Publishing. First, some backstory:So let me get this straight, this was actually published? How?
Then some storytelling:PublishAmerica described itself as a "traditional publisher" and claimed to accept only high-quality manuscripts for publication. Its website further stated that the company received over 70 manuscripts a day and rejected most of them.
At one point, PublishAmerica posted articles on their AuthorsMarket website stating that, among other things:
Science-fiction and fantasy writers have it easier. It's unfair, but such is life. As a rule of thumb, the quality bar for sci-fi and fantasy is a lot lower than for all other fiction. Therefore, beware of published authors who are self-crowned writing experts. When they tell you what to do and not to do in getting your book published, always first ask them what genre they write. If it's sci-fi or fantasy, run. They have no clue about what it is to write real-life stories, and how to find them a home. Unless you are a sci-fi or fantasy author yourself.But, alas, the SciFi and Fantasy genres have also attracted some of the lesser gods, writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters. Obviously, and fortunately, there are not too many of them, but the ones who are indeed not ashamed to be seen as literary parasites and plagiarists, are usually the loudest, just like the proverbial wheel that needs the most grease.
And the result?:The distinctive flaws of Atlanta Nights include nonidentical chapters written by two different authors from the same segment of outline (13 and 15), a missing chapter (21), two chapters that are word-for-word identical to each other (4 and 17), two different chapters with the same chapter number (12 and 12), and a chapter "written" by a computer program that generated random text based on patterns found in the previous chapters (34). Characters change gender and race; they die and reappear without explanation. Spelling and grammar are nonstandard and the formatting is inconsistent. The initials of characters who were named in the book spelled out the phrase "PublishAmerica is a vanity press."[7]
Under Macdonald's direction, the finale revealed that all the previous events of the plot had been a dream, although the book continues for several more chapters.
Now get back to reading time traveling viking seals:The completed manuscript was offered to PublishAmerica by an unrevealed person not usually associated with fiction. The manuscript was accepted for publication on 7 December 2004.[2]
The hoaxers reviewed the contract with legal counsel, and made the decision not to carry the hoax through to actually publishing the book.
On 23 January 2005, the hoax was publicly revealed by the authors. On 24 January 2005, PublishAmerica retracted its acceptance, stating that after "further review" the novel failed to meet their standards.[8]
Actually, is this a sequel to something? Is there a first book about the adventured of a teenage viking in California?
Because it seems like this story is just glossing over a lot of...story.
I noticed. Putting Viking Seal in google gave this as its first result:They don'tactually have any connection with each other which is standard for a romance novel series.
*shakes fist weakly*I think this is the part where I get to feel a bit smug about my near-immunity to food poisoning.
Could be worse. Can always be worse.
Yes, she could have told me not to eat it.
Then again, last night I nearly upchucked, while on the throne, so had to use bathtub nearby.Yes, she could have told me not to eat it.
(I would have never heard the end of it)
McDonalds burgers actually settle my stomach if I'm feeling sick.