Vacancies

[Dandontdare]

Ugh. Grits.  Never was there a more disappointing food experience.

I can vouch for that. Imagine porridge with the taste removed and gravel added.

I can make tea.

Cheers! milk two sugars, ta. Anyone else, while he's up?

As for the vacancies, I think that there are loads of jobs I could do if I was thrown in the deep end, but there just happen to be thousands of people out there who are actually qualified and experienced.
Bastards.

[Roger Godpleton]

Hell, the last time I was there, I was carefully kept away from one part of the studio because I wasn't allowed to know what was being done there[/quote

Could this be a Judge Dredd MMO? Or Grand Theft Dragon?

[Roger Godpleton]

Hell, the last time I was there, I was carefully kept away from one part of the studio because I wasn't allowed to know what was being done there

Could this be a Judge Dredd MMO? Or Grand Theft Dragon?

[Mike Carroll]

... There's good money in novels...

Bwahahahaaaaaa!

Oh man, now that's funny!

-- Mike

[House of Usher]

... There's good money in novels...

Bwahahahaaaaaa!

Oh man, now that's funny!

-- Mike

Argh, you sod! Just as I was about to supplement my meagre income as a community education tutor by dashing off a couple you go and dampen my enthusiasm.

[Mike Carroll]

Sorry, Ush...

The truth is that 99.9% (at least) of novelists don't even earn the minimum wage from their books. I work between 60 to 80 hours a week, often more, and I'm still not earning as much as I would working a 35-hour week in McDonald's... And that's with fifteen published novels behind me!

But don't let that discourage you too much: you never know, your novels might hit the big time and really take off! Just, y'know, don't go spending the money until you actually have it!

Mike, impoverished author
Visit my website to learn more about my books, or even buy some. At the very least, click on my AdSense links so I can earn a few pennies! http://http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm

[JOE SOAP]

... There's good money in novels...

Only if it's chick-lit.

[Jim_Campbell]

Bwahahahaaaaaa!

Oh man, now that's funny!

Mike ... I didn't say that there was good money writing novels. There was a very telling survey of US science fiction writers done a few years ago that should give pause to anyone thinking that they can make a living from writing novels (remember that those numbers, although from 2005, are in USD ... divide by 1.65 for a figure in Sterlng, True Believers!).

Publishing novels is a different story entirely. These things are relatively cheap to print and are certainly cheap to commission (not that I need to tell you that). Distribution -- actually getting the bloody things onto shelves -- is the real challenge for a new publisher, since shelf-space is finite but if you can crack that, then it's a fairly tidy little business model (with a nice VAT refund every year from HMRC to sweeten the deal).

Cheers

Jim

[Tiplodocus]

I work between 60 to 80 hours a week,

Perhaps some form of Speed Typing course would be in order?  

Anyway, that's novels. I plan to make my millions by writing comic scripts...

[Jim_Campbell]

I plan to make my millions by writing comic scripts...

Step Three = Profit!

Cheers

Jim

[Emperor]

You could comfortably see all of the Command Module in about 30 seconds, and there's really not that much to see, unless a bunch of people sitting at desks and working on PCs is an unusual sight in your life.

So are the droids kept in the basement?  

[TordelBack]

Well of course. They need to be kept close to Mek-Quake at all times, so that the noise of his hrrrrrrggh Big Jobs keeps them motivated.  We wouldn't want another Space Girls incident, now would we?

[House of Usher]

Visit my website to learn more about my books, or even buy some. At the very least, click on my AdSense links so I can earn a few pennies! http://http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm

Cheers, Mike. I enjoyed looking at your website. Some cool stuff there, and fantastic reviews too! You must be doing it right. I wish I had written as much (or indeed anything).

Impoversished author

Cheekily I ask: have you ever thought about getting a job?  

[Emperor]

Well of course. They need to be kept close to Mek-Quake at all times, so that the noise of his hrrrrrrggh Big Jobs keeps them motivated.  We wouldn't want another Space Girls incident, now would we?

Very good points. I was having flashbacks to the whole "Santa murdered my dad and stole his shoes" incident and was getting nervous.

[soggy]

Ok seing as nobody has commented on this aspect of the story, does this mean that Abaddon Books are soon going to be available as eBooks?