My dream was to see the publishing of my memoir, "Figures, Story of My Life," which was the story of my life. I was a figure painter and I wrote about it and what things happened to me and what happened after that. After I couldn't get a publisher to read my memior and then an agent wrote and said "this is unreadable", I went to the Internet to see how I could get it published. Pub Publishing was the first to respond, and said they'd like to publish it, but I didn't like the looks of them. They mostly published stuff like how to fix a boat and getting women on it. So then after I contacted them, that's when things started to happen. Other publishers, hearing about my work, contacted me and soon there was a kind of a kind of bidding war. Page Publishing, with there really cool websight, won out, and soon I signed a contract to publish my meomir with them. I worked with an editor who found all the typoes in my book and suggested some things I found out later to be bad advice, like putting some things in it that wernt true, like me doing "it" in a barn with sheep and stuff like that. I went along with it because I really trusted the editor, "Marshaw," and I really needed to get my greatest creation on print. So then I see soon and it's being marketed as a book about sex with farm animals and that's not what the book was about, at least not yet. It was about groin up in Wichita not on a farm but a convenient store. Marshaw said her boss needed more sex scenes and I said okay and she said with animals and I said wait what no, and she said sorry, just do it and the next book won't have to have any of it so I wrote a scene about doing it with a donkey and then a hog. That's better said the editor now what about a duck or something suprising. Now I don't know if any of you ever herd of a duck and a person doing it but I can asure you its not possible, trust me. Even if you could who would want to read it? Come on I said at some point, do you want this book or not. Turns out they did, but it became this other book about farm animals and doing it with them and it was starting to sell, like A LOT, but then I didn't get a single royalty check until my friend the lawyer wrote them a letter threateneng to take them to court, of courts he wasn't going to do that, just blufing. Then when the royalty check came it came with a note to send another manuscipt, and I did, my story about my ziplining accident, when I smashed against some rocks and went into a coma in Tennessee until someone found me and they took me to the hopsital. I never heard back from page, and then I heard they were a "vanity" publisher, which is you pay them and they publish your writing, not just the $5000 editing fee like they charged me, but more for promotions and things like that. And sure enough, yep, they wrote asking for more money. I was so dissapointed I never wrote back, just gosted them which is all they deserve.
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