Last year, on June 29th, you wrote an OP titled: The most ubiquitous organism on the planet is not alive.

I printed it off then, I am filing it now, and I'm more impressed with it now than I was a year ago (when I was impressed enough to print it off and put it in with my To Be Filed materials).

https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2130002

The content of this (especially with the right artist or other kind of graphic specialist) would make a really excellent YA ("Young Adult," means: age ten up, younger for gifted kids) book.

Your explanations are clear, and the subject is scientifically important for kids who are going to wind up in some kind of science-affected profession.

I don't have any agent or publisher contacts anymore (most of them have died--which is kind of sobering for me to realize), but you COULD do this, and the finished product could be a very good seller among science-oriented and/or gifted kids.

My best suggestion is to subscribe to PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY and read the applicable articles and news squibs in every new issue. Over a year or two, you WILL connect with an appropriate agent and/or publisher. (You don't have to worry about artwork. Artwork is the publisher's responsibility, not yours....and do NOT put any of your own money into this on a speculative basis. Any money you invest in an attempt to make your pitch more commercial is almost certain to be money wasted.)

Second best suggestion is to find the writer's groups in your area which have real, honest-to-God, professional writers in them who have a track record selling books (to publishers, and to the public). If you can't find any on your own, Google: Sisters in Crime (your state). Doesn't matter that you're not contemplating writing a mystery, or that you are not (I presume) female--most chapters of SiC are composed of professional, and professional-ready, writers--and as with everything in the creative arts, contacts are ESSENTIAL. Over a period of months, maybe a year, you will find the "someone" who knows "someone else," who will then "introduce" you to the publisher or agent who will be able to sell your debut book. In the meantime, you will learn a ton of valuable information and advice.

And if you aren't interested in writing and selling a professional book, that's okay.

Just know that you have what it takes, and that I saved the print off of your post, and it is going into my permanent files because it is so good.

Thank you!!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2019 03:54PM by Tevai.

I see Kori not as a writer, but as a 'codifier' ...he gathers bright, sparkly baubles of information that appeal to his latest obsession and presents them to us, his semi-captive audience. And then usually ends up angry that we don't ooh and ahh at the pretty things.

And anyway, all of us ought to write a book.

elderolddog Wrote:
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> I see Kori not as a writer, but as a 'codifier'
> ...he gathers bright, sparkly baubles of
> information that appeal to his latest obsession
> and presents them to us, his semi-captive
> audience. And then usually ends up angry that we
> don't ooh and ahh at the pretty things.

In this case in particular the "pretty things" can be of great value to kids growing up. The underlying value of what he wrote in the referred-to post leads in many valuable directions, and for kids who are going to be tomorrow's adults, getting a head start on these directions of inquiry can be important. [It's changing "your" direction by only 1%, but keeping on going in that "same" direction. You wind up in a radically different place than where you initially intended "to go."]


> And anyway, all of us ought to write a book.

All are called, but few are chosen?

Less smart aleck-y said: Many people "should write a book." Comparatively few actually do.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2019 04:03PM by Tevai.

You must be a fave of your grandkids.

No one could turn me straight but mama tried.

no one could steer me "right" but mumma tried! mumma tried! mumma tried to raise me better with her pleading ninety nine, that leaves only me to blame... cuz mumma tried.

Ummm... Am I missing something here?

Tevai, please explain how copying and pasting from wikipedia makes someone an excellent writer. I don't even see any original content in that thread you linked. It's all copy/paste, as far as I can tell?

What's up?



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Aloysius Wrote:
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> Ummm... Am I missing something here?
>
> Tevai, please explain how copying and pasting from
> wikipedia makes someone an excellent writer. I
> don't even see any original content in that thread
> you linked. It's all copy/paste, as far as I can
> tell?
>
> What's up?


If the writing is from Wikipedia, I did not know this.

I guess this makes the writer of the Wikipedia article the one I should have directed my good words toward?

The credited writer of the post was koriwhore, and I accepted this as factual.

What a drag it is getting old.

You think Mick still sings that?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/15/2019 12:08AM by babyloncansuckit.

Another copy and paste from the Rolling Stones!

Thanks, but Kori is dead, killed by Admin, who told me to pick a name and stick with it. So schrodingerscat it is.
I'm kinda obsessed with phages. It used to be herons. I am a sculptor and I sculpt animals. I am fascinated by ancient life forms. My partner says, "He used to have a heron addiction, but now he's going through a phage."
In our town we have an Earth Day celebration every year that includes a "Procession of the Species" which is a parade where everybody makes illuminated animals and parades them down the street with music and dancing. The whole city turns out and its a lot of fun.
This year I made a giant dancing T4 Bacteriophage. Before the parade started I was walking my phage over to the start and an elderly little lady came up to me and said, "Is that a T4 Bacteriophage?"
I said,"Why yes it is. How did you know?"
She replied, "I'm the Queen of Phages!"
I told her it was an honor to meet her and I was quite familiar with her work.
She told me she was 80 and still runs a phage lab at the local college that she's been running for 30 years. And she invited me to a phage conference this summer where 200 scientists come from all over the world every year to talk about phages. She welcomed me to come and bring my phage, which she said was awesome. I got a picture of both of us wearing our phage shirts with a giant phage hanging over her head.
So next year we are making a giant Ecoli bacteria float and the Phage Queen is going to sit on top of the bacteria in her phage throne, with phage puppets bouncing around on poles above the ecoli bacteria.
My partner works with her and told her my plan and she said, "Well, we better get working on that hadn't we?"
When, not if, I pull this off, I can die a happy man.



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schrodingerscat is a superb name.

Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> schrodingerscat is a superb name.
Thanks. I chose it on a whim, after a random off topic discussion about Schrodinger's Cat.
I went by Koriwhore for about 18 years, since I resigned, or longer.
I got a big laugh at an ExMo conference open mike once when I introduced myself as Koriwhore, with a W.
Haha
But the only constant in the universe is change.