Spanky's massive ego on display

[TheDukester]

This whole thing is worth a read:

http://kjablog.com/?p=1116" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But, by all means, do not miss "Peak 4." It's pure comedy gold.

Also, the entry mentions Anderhack seeing a bear (our dream! except the bear needs to be attacking!), and almost dying of hypothermia (our dream! just take out the "almost").

For a peek (yuk-yuk) into the incredibly screwed-up psyche of Kevin J. Anderson, this is a must-read.

[merkin muffley]

Peak 4

First bestseller

First movie deal

Friends and acquaintances want to borrow money all the time

Other writers begin sniping at you for your “undeserved” success

Critics blast you because you’re “too popular”

What a horrible person. I'm stunned. He never lets me down.

[SandChigger]

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Peak 2

First novel sale

Qualification for Professional Society membership

First photo or review in a science fiction news magazine
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Professional society membership?

He means SUCKY FUCKY WANKY ASSHATS!!! Yea!

[Kojiro]

Hey... what's blocking the sun? Oh, it's just KJA's swelled head.

[Hunchback Jack]

Peak 4

First bestseller

First movie deal

Friends and acquaintances want to borrow money all the time

Other writers begin sniping at you for your “undeserved” success

Critics blast you because you’re “too popular”

What a horrible person. I'm stunned. He never lets me down.

Holy shit, that quote is not made up! It's actually in there!

What an incredible insight into the morass of ego and insecurity that is KJA.

HBJ

[lotek]

why would someone want people to know this about them and be proud of it?
really weird...

[Omphalos]

Man, that was painful and disgusting. For an author he has no idea about how to use metaphor and simile.

Someone tell him he forgot to mention, "accomplished courtroom expert," in peak #4,

http://tau.solahpmo.com/viewtopic.php?f ... litigation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[D Pope]

Nothing thrills a goal-oriented person more than a List.

Things to do/ new goals for KJA;
1) Die
___a) in a fire
___b) in a freak micro recording accedent
___c) under Jabecca
2) Die again

[Sev]

Bloody hell, he never lets us down, does he - in ways of showing what a pompous asshat he is

Peak 4 is fucking priceless...

[Robspierre]

The disconnect between Keith and reality is just fucking huge. He will never get it.

Rob

[inhuien]

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Peak 5

Realise my failings

Understand the difference between internal and external truths

Stop living vicariously through the creativeness of others

Say sorry

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edit to add. I really do feel sorry for him you know, I live a modest life with my wee family in a wee tenement but I am happy. I don't think he ever is, are there any candid photos of him honestly smiling or are they all pigeon chested bravado?

[inhuien]

So the hole post was just a convoluted advert for this shite

Don’t miss the next Superstars Writing Seminar, Jan 13-15 in Salt Lake City: no-nonsense business and career advice for the serious writer, taught by six bestselling writers, Kevin J. Anderson, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Brandon Sanderson, Dave Wolverton, Eric Flint, and Rebecca Moesta.

http://www.superstarswritingseminars.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I don't feel sorry for this waste of space any more, thanks for reaffirming my stance smalldick.

[Apjak]

Are James Patterson, John Grisham, and Dean Koontz comfortably perched and satisfied on lofty Mount Everest?

So these are the authors he emulates. What do they all have in common?

They are at the extreme end of "financial success" for authors.

...

[Sev]

I'll say they're at the extreme end - according to the BBC, they are 3 of the top 7 highest-earning authors!

And I laughed at Keith's assertion that they aren't resting on their laurels, but ever striving for higher peaks to climb - bollocks - Patterson, for one, doesn't even write his own books any more. That's why he's scheduled to release 12 books this year alone.

[Freakzilla]

Patterson, for one, doesn't even write his own books any more. That's why he's scheduled to release 12 books this year alone.

Wow! Makes KJA look like an amature!

[SandRider]

I had high-hopes for Grisham once ... thought he could be the new Faulkner ...
he certainly captures many of the truisms of Southern People, good, bad, & ugly ....

but the cocksucker can't write outside of the "write-what-you-know" trap;
then Hollywood started dumping the Stupid Money on him ... I think Tom Cruise kidnapped
his soul, too ... he's dangerously close to being on my "Hack/Disregard" list, altho I haven't
read anything of his in quite some time ...

he came close to "classic" with the autobiographical one about growing up on a cotton farm
in Arkansas - seems like it was called "The Painted House" or something ... I think Hollywood
bought that one and sucked the Art right of it, too, but I'm not sure .... still tho, it was mostly
"autobiographical" .... to be a great novelist, you've got to be able to write what you don't
know ... and nail it ...

anyway, that's not why I clicked "reply" ...

Holy shit, that quote is not made up! It's actually in there!

I'd like to point out (again) that despite the vicious internets-rumors,
we of the OH seem to be (mostly) a painfully honest bunch ...

[edit] like when some novice stumbles across a particularly venomous Chigger comment, and gets all twisted in the britches and starts tossing out baseless (and disprovable) accusations ... like the whole "hacked into Keith's Treehouse" episode ... Chigger told us all right then about the fuck-up in the log-in procedure, and then told them ... and eventually they fixed it, but it's still out there that "SandChigger hacked the KJASF site" ...[/edit]

we don't make shit up - we don't have to .... we just copypasta the snippets that seem
to fly over the heads of the General Public ... and even if taken "in context", you can
always count on TheKeith to say something ... outrageous, preposterous, vain, silly ?
take your pick ...

[Kojiro]

I'll say they're at the extreme end - according to the BBC, they are 3 of the top 7 highest-earning authors!

And I laughed at Keith's assertion that they aren't resting on their laurels, but ever striving for higher peaks to climb - bollocks - Patterson, for one, doesn't even write his own books any more. That's why he's scheduled to release 12 books this year alone.

How the hell does an author get away with that?

[SandChigger]

How the hell does an author get away with that?

Fans stupid enough to buy the books.

Which ties it back in nicely with McDune, no?

[Hunchback Jack]

Holy shit, that quote is not made up! It's actually in there!

I'd like to point out (again) that despite the vicious internets-rumors,
we of the OH seem to be (mostly) a painfully honest bunch ...

I agree. My surprise came from that quote looking like a satirical summary rather than something Keith would actually write. How wrong I was.

HBJ

[TheDukester]

My surprise came from that quote looking like a satirical summary rather than something Keith would actually write.

Oh, man, if only I could write comedy that good. I'd quit my day job.

[reverendmotherQ.]

My surprise came from that quote looking like a satirical summary rather than something Keith would actually write.

Oh, man, if only I could write comedy that good. I'd quit my day job.

KJA, the bastard that he is, makes me wonder how the hell bad writing manages to succeed. OH, right, cause its all about mountain peaks, voice recorders, and some poor lady typing up what you vomited out when she plays back the tape.

That formula doesn't even make any sense.

[Robspierre]

That formula doesn't even make any sense.

The formula is the lowest common denominator.

Rob

[TheDukester]

Exactly right. And there's quite a few of them, and most of them are completists.

Spanky and Bobo could release six McDunes per year and there'd be preeks by the truckload waiting to snap them all up. The "gotta have 'em all!" thing is one of the main reasons I loathe most things about SF/Fantasy fandom.

[D Pope]

The "gotta have 'em all!" thing is one of the main reasons I loathe most things about SF/Fantasy fandom.

An embarrassing fact, I continued to buy Cards Ender books even after the poor guy lost interest in writing them. Optimistically, I guess you could say it's the power of that one great book. I'm not sure I want to examine the darker reasons.

[Aquila ka-Hecate]

Exactly right. And there's quite a few of them, and most of them are completists.

Is this a typo, Dukester?

Did you mean to write 'complete tits'?