Why was your manuscript rejected?
EelKat gives feedback on why one author's book got rejected 150+ times.

By Wendy C Allen

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Wendy Christine Allen, 2019, able to sit up in a chair for the first time in years, and able to raise up my arm and wiggle fingers. This was when I started playing Witcher 3 on Twitch as part of my physical therapy to regain finger movement. Playing Witcher 3 daily from 2016 to 2019, is how I regained the use of my thumb and two for fingers on my right hand... it is also why I stopped playing Witcher 3 in 2019, once I had strengthen my two forefingers enough to start typing again. Wendy Christine Allen, Old Orchard Beach's Autistic Author, Artist, Illustrator, & Art Car Designer Counting Down to the September 23, 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978) If you are here looking for The Twighlight Manor series, The Crystonite Wars series, The Wild Years series, The White Rock Asylum for the Criminally Insane series, The Twisted Tales series, the Captured By a MerMan series, The Space Dock 13 series, The Kats of Planet Ptarmagin series, the stories about Miss Citten the Eel-Kat, or the stories about Etiole... ALL of those series were combined and consolidated into The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane Pink Necromancer series in 2014, so ALL the different series, are now under one series title. List of the published titles still in print: The Index of over three thousand stories in The Pink Necromancer series What the series is about, for those new here: The introduction to The Pink Necromancer Series.

If you want some stories to get you started in The Pink Necromancer series, reading these first will give you a good introduction to the 3 main characters: BoomFuzzy's Chowder Dilemma If your ass ain’t freezing or your brains ain’t scrambled, you’re ain’t really trying A Very Important Clump of Grass The Washer Woman & The Fae Absinthe Slushies: An Ode to Frozen Green Fairy Wine Bone Dice Excited For The New Baby Zwodder: A Drowsy Stupid State of Mind Pink Sheep, Cheesy Burritos, and The Grim Reality of Zombies Open Grave The Phooka's Dragon School The Moon Goddess Laughs From The Rooftops The Jar of Pickled Toes The Book Burning Maggots, a You Can't Spell Hatred Without Red Hats A Day In The Life of a Bumbling Necromancer The Three-Seventeen Pee Expedition

My Elves Are JellyFish...and I asked Google AI and ChatGPT 5.6 what they thought of this.

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There is a Pink Necromancer card game and a Pink Necromancer board game, as well as a Pink Necromancer table top RPG supliment for Dungeons and Dragons, all in the works, and to be released over the next couple of years as well.

I shouldn't have to say this, but people keep contacting me, so apparently I do:

• No, I do not believe in aliens. Stop contacting me to ask for alien information. If you believe in aliens, I think you are insane, retarded, or both.

• No, my car is not haunted. I've debunked that rumour many times now. . Stop contacting me to ask for haunted car information. If you believe in haunted cars, I think you are insane, retarded, or both.

• No, I am not connected to Stephen King. I didn't even know who he was until you idiots started contacting me asking about him. I had to look him up on Google to find out what you were even talking about! If you have questions about Stephen King, go contact him and ask him. I'm not him. I don't know him. I know nothing about him. I've never read one of his books. I've never seen one of his movies. I can't figure out why you people are even coming to me to ask about him in the first place!

1. If someone told you I believe in aliens, if someone told you my car was haunted, if someone told you I was connected to Stephen King, you NEED to contact the FBI agent in charge of my son's murder investigation and TELL HIM WHO it was who told ou, exactly WHAT it was they said, HOW they contacted you, WHERE they contacted you... because it is a KNOWN FACT that my son's murderer is the one who started all these slanderous alien, haunted car, Stephen King rumours, and the FBI is trying to catch her.

If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

Do you know who this woman is?

On August 8, 2013 she drove a backhoe over my house. On November 14, 2013 she arrived at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me with a golf club and murdered my son. One June 24, 2016, days after my first attempts to walk again, she attacked me with a shopping cart at Scarborough, Walmart, reinjuring the Nov 14, 2013 injury.

She crippled me when I was 8 months pregnant, a woman with a golf club, severed my spine and bashed my baby's head in, I spent 9 years relearning to walk, and the FBI is 13 years into the murder investigation and not yet id-ed the attacker who crippled me and killed my baby, both violently with a golf club.

Complete details of EVERYTHING she did is on this page here.

The golf club woman who called herself Clair as she looked November 14, 2013. Her hair is a weird chin leangth pageboy (very Medival style cut) platinum blonde with wide brown/black dyed stripes in it (like a reverse of Lily Munster, but the stripes are several, almost like a zebra). I am 5'6" and she was a LOT taller then me, like closer to the height of a man; she had thin lips like a man, and large nose like a man... she COULD have been a man disguised as a woman, given the ease with which she severed my spine....she's is a LOT stronger then is typical for a woman). She was wearing a chambre blue denim "blazer jacket over shirt" and a button up mens shirt (possibly flannel) and blue jeans. The bulk of her yelling was focused on accusing me of being transgender, even while ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and bashing his head in with a golf club.

The Claire woman as she looked during her shoping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart June 2016, the attack with left me paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Her hair was dyed dark red, and she drove away in a gold Volvo 240 Station Wagon of a late 1980s/early1990s model, with a "458" on the lisnce plate.... If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

@eelkat part 9 of 10 #dogwalk around the block (Maine st, Elm st, South street, Bradbury st) #Biddeford #Maine #night #fbiinvestigation #truecrimetiktok ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

Good god! We just found out about yet another slanderous rumour this woman has been spreading? When does it end? How many more of these things are out there?

Video explains what else she's done ...

If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

If you encounter anyone claiming my car is haunted, demon possessed, or somehow connected to Stephen King please give the information of who, when, where/location to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office. @eelkat part 7 of 10 #dogwalk around the block (Maine st, Elm st, St Mary's, Dunkin, South street, Bradbury st) #Biddeford #Maine #night #plannedparenthood ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author If you encounter anyone claiming I believe in aliens or was an alien abducttee, please give the information of who, when, where/location to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

@eelkat part 4 of 10 #dogwalk around the block (Maine st, Elm st, St Mary's, Dunkin, South street, Bradbury st) #Biddeford #Maine #night #library ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author If you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine 04064-1520 on August 8, 2013 please give the information of who it is to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office. If you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine 04064-1520 on August 8, 2013 please give the information of who it is to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

I am sick and tired of people not giving a shit that my son was murdered!

I am sick and tired of jackasses making up rumours and lies about me and my car, calling me an alien abductee and my car haunted, just to try to cover up my son's murder!

My long time readers are fully aware that I do not take time out of my busy schedule to offer manuscript reading services.

So, they are probably all in shock now to see this page, and to see me doing just that.

Well, I've not read his manuscript. Nor will I.

However, his rampage across the internet, his obsessively hounding and stalking agents on ever social media, and now his raving inferno rants of Reddit...

This guy needs a serious reality check...

and other authors would do well to learn from his glaring mistakes, so... I'm responding to him...

but, you know me, I never do anything in private... you want to make a fool of yourself in public... who am I to not respond in public as well...

If you are reading this... don't be this guy (and yes, he has been given this message already and, well no doubt you'll see my name in his next round of author bashing insanity.)

Okay... I'm reading your comments, and rather then reply in a bunch of places, I'll reply all at once in one post, so I can keep my thoughts straight. Hopefully, something I say ends up helping you out?

• All of the top youtubers have books, and few of them can write. But how far down the pyramid does the automatic book deal go?

There is no such thing as an automatic book deal.

• Top Youtubers have Millions of Subscribers and can be found easily on "Top 20 Youtube Subscribers with Book Deals" lists. But a lot more youtubers than 20 youtubers receive top 5 pub deals per year.

Fewer then 100 out of 50million channels have ever gotten book deals. I'm not sure how you comcluded a YouTube channel = a book deal.

And you answered your own question.

She did the work and found a way to market her book.

That's not some book publisher out of the blue giving a random YouTuber a deal, that's the YouTuber getting off her ass and reaching out to the publishers, just like EVERY author should be doing.

You got some serious ego issues if you think book publishers are grovelling at authors' feet offering then contracts.

Disney owns the rights to Pewdiepie's name, they've been slapping his name on everything these days.

You should never stop trying.

Heck, if I waited for the internet to be invented, and then waited for YouTube to be invented, before I started trying to get published, I woudn't have been published way back in 1978.

So, you are an author who is refusing to write a book, because you want a publishing contract first.

Ooooh. So you're telling me you're delusional and have no idea that the defanition of an author is one who publishs novels, and you don't know that you are just a writer and will never be an author until after you publish a novel, but you are spiting the publishing houses and refusing to write a novel, because the publishing houses are not knocking on your front door begging you to rite a book.

Okay.

So now we know what your problem is and why you can' get published. You dopn't yet have anything to publish! You are too busy looking for contracts to the book that you have not yet written to take the time to even write it.

Gotcha.

You do realize no one cares about awards, right?

• but I'd need 70,000 more words because agants don't think 90.000 is enough for five POVs. It's adult fantasy but not epic fantasy. It's the first book that reads like epic fantasy but is actually prehistoric fiction.

When you say "epic fantasy" what exactly do you mean? The industry standard definition of "epic fantasy" is "a Fantasy novel of 300,000 or more words"

If it's under 300k words, it's not Epic Fantasy, because Epic refers to the word count not the genre. I write Epic fantasy, that's how I know this.

This is why you have:

• Epic High Fantasy
• Epic Dark Fantasy
• Epic Historical Fantasy
• Epic Sword & Sorcery
• etc

High Fantasy is a world with a lot of magic and magical creatures, set in a world that is not earth.

Low Fantasy is a world with little to no magic and set on earth or an alternate earth.

Dark Fantasy features Horror themes and creatures (such as Vampires or Zombies)

Historical Fantasy is any type of Fantasy that is set in a historical time period or era

Sword & Sorcery is wizards battling warriors, brawn against magic (think Dungeons and Dragons)

In my experience most publishers will not consider anything under 120k to be a novel. In the mind of most publishers, 90k is a novella. It is almost impossible to find a publisher that has the printing equipment capable of printing up a 500 page novel, thus very few publishers will even consider Epic Fantasy (as a 300k word novel is rarely less then 500 printed pages)

Epic Fantasy is a hard beast to sell, because so many people write it, yet so few publishers can handle physically printing up a 500 page tome.

But, this in turn is why I asked what it is you are referring to when you say Epic Fantasy, because you said it is Epic Fantasy and then said it is 90k words long?

Did you call your novel Epic Fantasy when you submitted it? If so, I'm thinking that could be the trouble you are running into, more then anything else....the fact that you are telling the publishers your novel is one thing, but then you are submitting something completely different. Publishers see it as a red flag, that this is an illiterate amature who not only doesn't know the industry, they don't know the genre they supposedly are writing either, when the author of the novel, doesn't know what the genre of the novel is, and a mistake like confusing a word count descriptor with a genre descriptor, could possibly have been the real reason for the rejection. They might be thinking: "They don't even know what Epic Fantasy means, why should I read this?"

I'm really thinking that you got rejected based off the fact that you know so very little about the Fantasy genre that you called something with fewer then 300k words "Epic".

The genre of Game of Thrones is Historical Low Fantasy written in Epic Length, thus why some people (incorrectly) refer to it as "Epic Fantasy", when in fact what they should be saying is Epic Length Historical Low Fantasy.

• Some agents immediately think "Clan of the Cave Bear" when I say the evil 'prehistoric fiction word" but the two are nothing alike.

Understandable, considering there are not many novels set in prehistoric times.

Though, Clan of the Cavebear is certainly not one of the more popular novels of the setting.

ElfQuest and Conan the Barbarian are far more popular in the prehistoric genre.

• Agents don't seem to realize that the existence of trolls and little people and many mythological creatures have been added to our archaeological record in the past 7 years and that fantasy fans deserve to know that their passion was justified after all.

Trolls and Little People. Ah! Something I know. Something I specialize in. You're talking to a Scotsman who focused on studying Gaelic Literature in college. Took archaeology classes along side literature classes. My main characters of my own series are a Yumba, a Each-uisge, and a Uruisg. Though, for simplicity, they often get referred to as an Elf, a Unicorn, and a Sheep Demon.

I can appreciate your posts, as I am familiar with the many obscure mythology references you have been making here.

My own series.... was rejected as well. Obscure creatures, so I was told, are not in demand. Well, I published them on my website and those not in demand creatures get 70,000 pages views a month now.

Most agents know a very limited area, specializing in that one type of book only, and when presented with something out of their area of expertise, well, they don't know what to do with it as well. Just because they are an agent, doesn't mean they are familiar with every niche. An agent who specializes in Murder Mysteries is not going to be the best at representing Romances.

Sounds to me like part of the issue is you have not yet found an agent who is well acquainted with your genre. I'd recommend continuing your search. There's bound to be an agent out there who is familiar with this sort of historical based fantasy. You just have to find him/her.

Have you tried reaching out to other authors who've published books similar to your own? Perhaps they could suggest an agent they have worked with or even recommend you to their agent?

Not sure if you've thought of it, but... have you tried looking into agents/publishers in Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, or Sweden?

The reason I ask, is because troll mythology is HUGE in current/popular media in those countries, and I'd guess you'd have good luck finding agents that are looking for that sort of thing. Have you tried Egmont? http://www.egmont.com (Danish publisher) I've published with them in the past. Not sure what they are currently looking for, but, they do publish English language books for both American and European market, and they've put out a LOT of books over the years that focused on Scandinavian mythology (including trolls.) Not sure what your story is vs what they look for, but, they might be right up your alley.

• My book is more like Game of Thrones with an index in the back giving the scientific names of all the creatures involved and academic citations of all the ancient technologies discussed.

nods head knowingly

When I first started out....oh so many decades ago... I did the same thing. Charts, graphs, maps, and great big index in the back of the book.

You know what I was told by every publisher I submitted it to?

That the charts, graphs, maps, and index were great, they loved it... but it had to be cut, because it just wasn't part of the story. They said, maybe if the novel got popular enough, then I could take those things and publish it as a supplemental book for fans to buy. But, they said, if I couldn't find a way to weave the info into the novel itself, then it was unnecessary for the story.

• Well they didn't really say anything, just form rejections. About 150 agents. Admittedly my first 80 queries or so were horrible.

A query should be 1 page long. 3 paragraphs describing the plot and NOTHING else.

Nothing about you, your awards, your research, the fact that you plan to add indexes to the book... NONE of that should be in the query.

The query should be 500 words at most.

Describe your plot, hook the agent, and shut the fuck up about EVERYTHING else.

• Then I won some critiques and edits from pros on twitter, who told me it was because of my number of POVs and length. So I broke it down into Novellas with minimum changes and landed small press deals by entering pitch parties on twitter.

Whoop-dee-do.

No one cares.

Awards are just a way for an author to fan his own vanity.

No.

No.

Definitely not.

Not after reading your comments.

No.

It's you.

Not your book.

It's you and the shitty way you treat people, you raving screaming egomaniacal arrogance and your bullying demands for worship, that's why you are being rejected.

I've been told this as well. It seems to be the going theory that if you are unpublished to not write in multi PoV.

shrug

Okay.... my thought on this, is it's a bait and switch move and readers don't like that. If you write 1 POV in your first novel, your readers will expect it in EVERY novel and if in your 4th or 5th novel you suddenly change to write 5 PoVs, well, you'll lose a lot of readers who will not set out to buy your 5th or 6th book, because they expected 1 PoV.

So, I personally do not agree with the advice you were given. If 5 PoV is what your stories needs, then it's what you should write.

I do think the more PoV you have the harder it'll be to find a publisher, but that shouldn't stop you from writing 5 PoV stories. It just means you have to work harder to get it published then you would a novel with 1 PoV.

Ah... yes. I had already written my answer with the 300k advice, before getting to this comment.

Yep. 300k is typically the word count you see with lots of PoVs.

And yes, typically, the advise is in fact to cut the story, so that it is 5 mini-novels, 1 PoV each, rather then 1 big novel with 5 PoVs in one. That is pretty standard advice. And it's standard because, it is what most publishers look for.

I don't know... I'm thinking maybe you might want to look into self-publishing. It might be a better road for you? Not sure. It's something to think about. From what you are saying, it sounds like the rejections are not saying anything is wrong with the story itself, just that it's not the type of story they publish from an unknown. Which means it might do well self-published and then, with sales from it on your resume, you might have better chances trade publishing the next novel? Don't know. It's an option

• She also said the speech of one of my two tribes might raise a red flag because they have a dialect that some could mistake as some kind of stereotype. But it has nothing to do with a stereotype, as the people I'm talking about are extinct it's simply that their conjugation is verb-subject-object instead of subject-verb-object. I know there are witch hunts going on about political correctness, but my heroes are in a matriarchy against an invading patriarchy at the dawn of civilization so I can't imagine that's what's bothering the agents!

Okay... let me tell you something here... if it sounds like you are making fun of Southern black people (even if that's not what you intended) no publisher will touch it with a 9 foot pole.

Let me tell you a story...

• 1) I'm not white.
• 2) I'm not American.
• 3) Scots English, in my native language.
• 4) My novels are written in Scots English.

What does Scots English look like?

Well, let me take this sentence I'm writing right now, and translate it for you.

If you know the language, you have no trouble reading it.

But if you do not know the language, you will find it very difficult to read, and will have no clue what the author is saying to you.

My language is often mocked by newbie writers who are quick make fools of themselves by trying to write poor American English and assuming that by making us Scottsmen sound like illiterate idiots no one will notice they don't know our language from chicken shit.

1. Ahya, let me does be taking dis hera sentence I does did done go un writes up right hera un nows, un haves us hera a wee lil translation ofing it fors yis nows, eh?
2. Iffy yis be knowing dem dairs tongue, yis be having nay bit o trouble for tos reads it, now, eh?
3. Ah! But, iffy yas does nay be knowsing me tongue, yis all is be finding it wicked no difficult to reading dairs, eh? Un yawl be nah having no clue wat for it be wat de author does gone un saids tos ya now will ya?
4. Me tongue, she does often be kurfuffled by de wee lil nippers, who done gone tossed dair bum oot de windea, try fors toos write us up as frightful Americea English. Deys gone done un make forth de assumptions we Scottsmen be illiterate eejits un not no one be for de caring to knows our tongue any different den cluckie dung.

You know "hoot mon!" isn't part of our language? How many authors identify a Scotsman by having them say that?

Do you also know, that the first time my books were published to the mass market of America, that I got HUNDREDS of hate emails from American readers who read my books and then lashed out at me saying:

"you can't pick on those poor southern black folks like that"

I'm sorry... but, I don't know what a Southern black person even sounds like. I've never meet one. And no I don't have a TV. But fact remains, those readers, were so bigoted against black people themselves, that they read a book written by a Scotsman, in Scots English, and MADE THE ASSUMPTION that I must be a white American picking on black southerners. It never occurred to them that I was not white, I was not American, or that the book was written in my native language and had NOT been translated into American English.

But apparently, the average American, is unaware that there are more then 50 different types of English, or that Scots English is actually the original English language UNCORRUPTED by the influence of French and German being filtered into it, as was done to create American English, which is also the LEAST accurate type of English out there, though, no American is gonna believe that, and they also can't understand why Europeans have such a hard time understanding Americans when they talk.

But the point is... KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE!

If you are writing a book for the American audience, you have to dumb it down and write it in American English, because the average American, doesn't know any alternative versions of English and is ALWAYS going to think "illiterate black man" no matter what language you write. I know this from experience.

My books get sold in Asia and Europe no problem at all. But in America? Sales to America have a 97% return rate, and it's ALWAYS because of the books being written in Scots English instead of American English, and Americans readers getting all offended and falsely accusing me of picking on black people.

They don't take into consideration the books are written in the Scottish language, written by a Scottish author, and feature.. omg... Scottish characters. Nope. They don't think of that part at all. They just see that it "looks" like what the American mind thinks of as "illiterate black speak" so that's what they accuse it of being.

Quite astounded me when it happened, really. Opened my eyes to how white Americans view black people. I can't think of any Scottish people who would look at out language and think "illiterate black man" but thats the term that HUNDREDS of Americans used in their hate emails when the books got released in America. Shocked the hell out of me.

So when you say this...

• She also said the speech of one of my two tribes might raise a red flag because they have a dialect that some could mistake as some kind of stereotype. But it has nothing to do with a stereotype, as the people I'm talking about are extinct it's simply that their conjugation is verb-subject-object instead of subject-verb-object. I know there are witch hunts going on about political correctness, but my heroes are in a matriarchy against an invading patriarchy at the dawn of civilization so I can't imagine that's what's bothering the agents!

It doesn't matter what you the author intend.

All that matters in the publisher's mind is how the American public is going to PERCEIVE your intention.

You could have a Ph.D in linguistics and be writing the language flawlessly, and readers will STILL lash out at you thinking you are making fun of this race or that race.

And well, publishers, they don't want to be accused of publishing something that could be mistaken as racist, even if it's not racists at all.

When it comes to publicity, your intent doesn't matter and means absolutely nothing. Public perception is going to paint your book racists wither you like it or not.

If you are intent on keeping the dialects in the dialogue, you WILL NOT get a publishing contract from any of the big publishers. You are going to be limited to indie press or self publishing. Neither of which is a bad thing, but, you need to be prepared to have publishers tell you that. They will NOT make allowances for anything that could be mistranslated as racist.

• I did get one full from Virginia Kidd, and was stoked because it's one of the top 5 in sci-fi and fantasy.

Huh. Never heard of her.

You seem to think she's important or something the way you are tossing her name all over kingdom come. Does she know you're doing that. Is she gonna like what she finds if she Google's herself and reads what you been saying?

Very unprofessional move you are doing here.

You know that right?

• I did get one full from Virginia Kidd, and was stoked because it's one of the top 5 in sci-fi and fantasy. That's kind of what made me mess up - I thought it meant I had a good query, and kept sending it. It was actually a horrible query and the intern just liked the idea of fantasy being proven a real aspect of our prehistoric past.

It's HER fault you messed up your query?

Not yours?

SHE made you write your query wrong because she's famous?

You're a real piece of work, you know that right?

Everything is everybody else's fault and can do no wrong.

• Or I guess that's what happened, he went into the hospital for knee surgery and never came back to the agancy.

So, your rejection slip is because he broke his knee. It's all HIS fault. Not your's. Has nothing to do with you at all.

Okay.

Got it.

You are God and can do no wrong.

Good to know.

• Oh- no they weren't agents. They were editors and published authors.

So, from what you are saying, editors and published authors don't know shit, because only an agent is worth talking to, and you're saying that to Sarah Ashiers, who has said to you in her reply that she's a trade published author and maybe she could help, but because you think she's JUST one of those insignificant know nothing authors, not like you, someone who bases your characters of real history, no, she just writes Fantasy, so all this, page after page after page of detailed very helpful advice she has given you don't mean squat, because ONLY the opinions of an agent matter?

Okay, do you even know who you're talking to? Have you even checked Sarah Ahiers profile here? You do know she's an agent right?

GOD! Do talk to all agents like this? Yie! No wonder you are getting rejections!

This forum does have quite a few agents on it, and you're not only gonna chew out an agent, but one of the mod agents, who happens to also be the admin of this forum?

Hey, way to go. You just sunk every deal you could have had, with every agents who reads this forum, written by agents offering advice for writers looking to get published. Yay you, you just killed your career and you ain't even got started.

My oh my! Do you not know this is a public forum!

• Only one agent gave me any feedback. Eric Smith- he actually helped me with my query letter after rejecting me, and then said "Looks like you have a really fun story there!" but he still passed.

Does he know you are tossing his name around on a public forum like this?

Perhaps he started to help you, but backed out after he saw you doing this name tossing game with other agents before him, so he ran away to escape you before you attacked him like you did every other agent who rejected you.

• I'm just bewildered about that viewpoint. If i enjoy a 17,000 word story, I'm not going to suddenly dislike it if you but it inside a larger story. Why is brevity ok for this and not for that? I love Ernest hemingway and Thomas Pynchon because they are brief and don't bog me down with pages and pages of navel gazing like so many modern novels do.

What is there to be bewildered by?

It's a novella. Nothing wrong with that. It doesn't have to be a novel.

Stop acting like novels are best and novel writers are legit, but novellas are shit and novella authors are hacks.

Your attitude is your problem.

• The thing is, if the POVs were rushed they wouldn't have won awards or found reputeable small presses.

And they not having awards is important, how exactly?

Are you that much of a jerk that you can't read something that never won an award?

And what is it with your constant snide remarks about small press, and acting like you stepped in dog shit because the only publishers interesting in your work are small press?

• I'm so not looking forward to writing a one POV novel, because I haven't read one since highschool (not counting assignments in college).

Then why the hell are you doing it?

Your passive aggressive "I don't want to do this but I'll do it anyways so there!" makes you come off as a 2 year old holding their breath.

Do you have any idea how stupid saying things like this makes you look?

• In high fantasy, one POV sounds way too biased to me. It's like only getting one soldier's perspective of something he couldn't possible know everything about.

Do you read High Fantasy?

Do you even know what it is?

High Fantasy is heavily magic based, featuring wizards and magic and Elves and wizards and magic and fairies and wizards and magic and .... oh look, there's more wizards over there.

Yes, I did read your little rant about how much you hate wizards and sorcery and magic because you know evil booga-booga, it doesn't exist and it isn't real...

Hey did you know a person can look up your profile and see AAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL the rants you've been having EVERYWHERE on Reddit, not just this one I'm responding to now?

You might want to thank your lucky stars I'm not a Fantasy agent reading your agent hating, wizard bashing, magic is bad, Fantasy shouldn't have magic in it, boo-hoo I write historical accuracy and no one loves a scientist pity parties.

Yie!

Can any one say unprofessionalism!

Tip: You might want to go back and delete some of those rants before too many agents get a hold of them.

• I don't assume I'm a great writer and I'm constantly learning new things, but I'm definitely better than Pewdiepie and the 15 year old a big house just signed, and I know how to get to where they are on youtube. It will just take a few years.

You do realize Pewdiepie works for Disney right? Disney gobbles up everything they think is going to make money fast, and spits it out quick soon as it starts losing money. Pewdiepie had guaranteed sales. The book sold 50 million copies the first month. And have you read it? It's not a book he "wrote" It's a bunch of motivational quotes he compiled, with peppy illustrations. He just let Disney slap his name on a collection of upbeat quotes for kids. And he didn't have a choice. Disney owns the rights to his name, they can put it on anything they want to.

Those YouTubers you are mentioning, they all work for Maker Studios YouTube Network, a division of Disney Corp. Disney owns several of the world's largest publishers including Egmont and Hatchet. These people were not being approached at random. They basically sold their souls to the devil. Disney takes 60% of their YouTube income and if Disney says they have to write a book - they write a book, wither they want to or not. Felix did not write a book.

• The reason I'm confused is because I've had pro after pro tell me it's solid writing and a fascinating concept, I've won awards for it, and I've gotten two novella deals from it.

And yet, you continue to pitch Historical Fiction to Fantasy Agents while telling them to kiss your feet and wipe your ass.

Tip:

Try sending your novel to publishers who publish your genre and stop bossing people around.

• The only people who don't seem to like it are agents, and they won't tell me why.

Probably has something to do with both your way of talking to them and treating them like shit, along side of your sending a Historical Fiction manuscript to Fantasy authors.

• Jane Aule is way out of date and reads like prehistoric fiction, not epic fantasy. There are no temples, moats, walled settlements, no sorcerors, no real monsters. So she and I have little in common. In fact the two stories are set 12,000 years apart and I lament the fact that the literary world sees the Neolithic, Mesolithic, and Paleolithic as all the same thing.
  

Again, you have no idea what Epic Fantasy even is. It is so painfully obvious that you have very little knowledge of the Fantasy genre. Your misuse of the words Epic Fantasy, over and over and over and over again, is such a HUGE red flag! No wonder you are getting rejections from Fantasy agents! No agent is gonna accept any one who doesn't even know the meanings of the words they use.

You did so much research else where, how could you mess up on something so simple like this?

It's basic common knowledge that EVERY reader of Fantasy KNOWS without having to think about it. You are trying to write a genre you don't even read! There is no bigger, more amature mistake in the industry!

Why do you think every one says: Write what you know; Read what you write?

How can you expect to get accepted by an agent who specializes in Fantasy, when you don't even know what Epic Fantasy is?!?!?

High Fantasy is what you are referencing, and really, if you are spouting off such huge glaring inaccuracies in your queries, it's no wonder you are getting rejected.

You really need to get your words straight

Epic Fantasy refers the the length of the book, the amount of words.

You going off on a rant, giving an agent hell, while calling ANY manuscript under 300,000 words "Epic", really just makes the agent roll her eyes and think: "Look at that idiot! Thinks he knows so much about the industry, and doesn't even know the meaning of the word Epic Fantasy"

Nothing is going to get you a reject slip faster then telling the agent "I write Murder Mysteries" and then handing them a Romance. And that's you're doing. You are telling them you are giving them Epic Fantasy and then you give them something completely different.

I mean, I can see that you've done massive amounts of research into the history of your setting... I'm just wondering why you didn't think to do as much research into the genre meanings as well?

This is not a small error you are making here. This is a HUGE, red flag level, glaring error that is not going to win you any contracts with agents who actually do know the meanings of the words you are using very incorrectly.

Think about it... why should an agent, editor, or publisher take you seriously as a professional Fantasy author, when you don't even know what the word "Epic Fantasy" means? Put yourself in their shoes.

What would you think, if someone came up to you talking about troll and got all their facts, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong... then argued with you and made a complete fool of themselve in front of you, the person who has done the research and knows they got their facts wrong?

• My social media has definitely not reached critical mass, and at the time of query it was more about music than prehistory so you're right about the overlap too. But it's growing and I have a plan.

Your social media should be about YOU and show potential clients how your represent yourself as a professional online.

And Reddit is social media, Don't forget that.

And these agents you are chewing out here... they have connections to all the other agents you might ever submit to.

Agents stick together.

You treat one like shit on a public social media like you are doing right now and none of them is ever going to hook ya.

• One other thing I've been told by an aquisitions editor at Tor is that no one wants prehistoric fiction, that Jane Aule drove that horse into the dirt.

That would be because Tor is a Fantasy publisher and they don't publish Historic Fiction.

Stop submitting Historical Fiction to Fantasy publishers!

Is that so hard to figure out?

They don't publish Erotica either! You gonna send them that next?

• This tells me agents don't keep up with paleoanthropology and probably don't know about Balangoda man, the Red Deer Cave People, The Hobbit of Indoonesia, the Palau Hominids, Iwu Eleru, or the existence of the Elasmotherium unicorn into the Mesolithic, or even about the massive terror birds that look just like early depictions of dragons. They don't know the dragon of Ishtar's Gate was a giant pangolin because few people know that pangolins the size of hippos actually existed.

Why would they?

They work with Fantasy authors not Historical Fiction authors!

I don't know, maybe the publisher you want is National Geographic or DKEyewitness or Archaeological Digest? The agents for them, keep up on that sort of stuff. You know, because they specialize in that sort of stuff?

I'm getting the feeling you might be happier writing non-fiction for science and history journals. Have you considered that as a possible career? You really do have a vast amount of knowledge in this area from what I'm reading here and you seem to enjoy the non-fiction aspect more then the fiction writing aspect.

I've written lots of non-fiction articles for magazines over the years, It's something you can get into without an agent and if you find a topic you like a lot (which I think you have) it's possible to do it as a full time career. I really think you should look into it, because I'm getting the impression that you have a lot of info on this stuff that you are itching to share and are feeling frustrated with not being able to share it. And I'm wondering if, perhaps, trying to share it as a fiction novel, is maybe the wrong path for you? Maybe writing a series of a lot of 1,000 word non-fiction articles and submitting them to magazines is a place you'd be happier?

Or have you thought about the possibility of building a Niche Topic Content Site? You could fill it up with lots of pages of your research AND you could post your fiction work on it as well. I've done this myself, and it can be a very good income. In fact, it's my full time income these days. Monetize it with AdSense and affiliates and sales of my books.

Like I said... I understand your frustrations, because a lot of the stuff you are saying is stuff I've been through myself. (And yes, I was aware of the giant pangolins... You and me sound like kindred spirits.... until I continue reading...)

• And keywords for these terms are going off the chain with little available to satisfy the curious. There's not even a story about the Hobbit of Flores available, except a little self-pubbed kid's book...and thousands of searches per month on google.

Hobbit of Flores. You know 3 of them are on display here in Maine. I've seen them.

You also know they aren't Hobbits right? They're the Picts. You know, my people. It's why we Scottish Gypsies are so short.

Hobbit of Flores is a name white men slapped on us. And we who are still alive, don't exactly like it. Because we ain't Hobbits. We are Humans. And we Gypsies are sick and tired of white men not treating us like Humans.

You do so much research... and yet... you make so many mistakes. How is that?

I'm starting to think, you don't know nearly as much as you think you do.

And I just checked BrainStormIt...

Hobbit of Flores was searched for (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) fewer then 10 times in the last 28 days

(While you brag of being an SEO expert - I actually am one. I do this for a living. You are making HUGE errors in your facts. You're not as smart as you think you are.)

• I can't expand the novellas because both already found small presses and will be released next year.

Is that hind sight I here?

Regret?

Do you hate small press and novellas so much, that you can not be happy with the deal you got, so, now you are bitching and moaning.

You put so much focus on competition and awards. Damn. You must have had one shitty childhood, to be running around needing to be on top.

You need a reality check.

BOY do you ever need a reality check.

You write a damn story. That's how you expand. You don't run around the internet acting like a jackass and braying about how writing 50,000 words is too difficult for you to do.

If writing a novel is too hard for you to do, then what the hell are you doing trying to write novels to begin with?

No one cares about your self righteous pity party.

Move on to something you do want to do and stop wasting everyone's time!

Geesh!

Oh good lord!

There you go again.

You gotta write a book, but you need mommy to wipe your ass and dictate what you should write.

Cut the damned apron strings and write your damned book for crying out loud!

What the hell is wrong with you?

Do you need training wheels for everything in life?

You got servants to feed you as well, so you don't have to bothered lifting those silver spoons?

Again with the high and mighty, holier then thou, I'm better then everybody attitude.

So, now YouTube is shit too, and you wouldn't normally touch it, but damn, you are so much better then every body that you would rather publish to YouTube then get caught being published by some second rant small press.

DAMN!

Are you even listening to yourself!

Wow. You know, I'd like to see your query letters. Find out if they are half as shit faced arrogant as your forum posts are.

You really think any one is gonna give you a publish contract with that mountain of a chip you got on your shoulder?

You're not God you know. You are just another Human, just like everyone else.

What the frigging fuck?

You can't just write for yourself and be happy with that?

I am trying to wrap my brain around your logic. Your extreme levels of arrogance is so baffling.

If you hadn't won an award, you wouldn't have finished the book.

Well, boo-hoo-hoo.

Go cry your pity party in the corner.

You're sitting on a cushy life if winning awards is the only thing you got to cry about.

You just don't get it do you. It's not about the PoV. It's about your shitty attitude. No one wants to work with a arrogant control freak, and let's face it, that's what you are.

Why don't you do the same thing I'm doing... pick your ranting forum post apart, line by line and analyze every word for it's meaning.

You got a stick up your ass and until you pull it out, there ain't no one in the publishing industry gonna get near you let alone work with you.

You got some series issues, and it's not your book that's holding you back. It's your bitchy way you treat your superiors.

Who cares.

A story is as long as it needs to be. You start at the beginning and write til the end.

The word count tells you what type of story it is.

90,0000 words is a novella.

There's nothing wrong with writing novellas.

The problem is, you are so arrogant and think you are o better then every body, that you are trying to convince the know-nothing publishers they MUST publish your GREAT and WONDERFUL shit or else. Publishers don't like being told they know nothing. They don't like authors riding in on a high horse and pushing them around.

Agents. Editors. Publishers. They are your superiors, and you need to suck in that ego of your's and start treating your superiors with a little respect.

Telling them, they ain't worth shit and don't know a good story when they see it, is the REASON you can't get published, you freaking idiot!

Open your eyes!

Stop treating the publishers like shit, and maybe you'll have better luck!

Good god! The attitude you have!

• How much time do you want me to spend on the silly love interest?

There you go with that attitude again.

Do you ever stop and think, before you open your mouth?

Oh boo-hoo, you don't my story, you think it'll be better if I add a silly love interest, well, there, I added it, how do you like that, see I ruined my story for you.

Boo-hoo-hoo.

Somebody really needs to slice that pedestal out from under your gold plated feet.

You got some serious personality issues, and you might find it hard to get published until you see a psychiatrists and start talking so meds.

So, you hate Romance. Good to know. Now every agent who read your forum posts, know that any romance you added to your story, you did just to spite some agent at Tor.

Great.

Way to get agents to like you.

• Are these goals and stakes heavy enough for you?

Again. Who cares. It's your story. Not theirs. Why is it so hard for you to just write your story? Why do you need the praise and approval of others? Why can't you just write?

More attitude.

I can't get over how much of it you have.

My oh my, but you're a pip!

I pity your spouse. I'm glad I don't live with you. Damn, you must be a nightmare and a half if you are this bad on a public forum.

Professionalism.

You need it.

You lack it.

Quite badly.

You are acting very immature and childish.

Publishers want to work with professionals, not tantrum throwing toddlers.

Did you see it?

I did.

I know what your problem is.

You said it loud and clear.

You don't know what Fantasy is.

• I believe fantasy readers NEED this, after living a life where everyone told them their interests are for kids. After having to hide the covers of their books on the subway for decades.

What the frick are you even talking about?

There's only like 4 cities on the planet that even have subways.

And subways are a fairly new inventions.

Kids ain't been hiding on them for decades yet.

So what kids are you talking about?

• I believe fantasy readers NEED this, after living a life where everyone told them their interests are for kids.

So Daddy Warbucks didn't let you read Fantasy books, right?

You know... I hate to say this, but you sound like someone who might have Autism. REAL Autism. Kanner's Syndrome. You know, the psychosis that is caused by being sexually abused by a parent in your infant or toddler years.

Is that why you hate authority figures so much?

Is that why you are running around the internet screaming how great you are while belittling every publisher and agent who tries to help you?

You do realize that the average child reads Fantasy books and doesn't have to hide that fact?

Are you aware that the average child has never even heard of a subway, let alone knows what one is, considering they are so very rare, and... the only reason why someone would reference such a rare event as hiding on a subway, was if because that's what they did as a child.

I'm picking up a lot of feelings of hate and fear, you building up prickly walls around you and snapping at everyone, trusting no one, and feeling very small, so trying to make yourself look big, by trolling agents on social media.

That's not the way to win friends or get a contract.

That's the wrong attitude.

You don't write for an audience, you write the thing, YOU want to read. You write the book, you desired to read, but can't find. Tell the story, as it comes to you. To hell with everyone else. Their opinions mean nothing.

Every publisher wants something different.

Every agents has her own ideas about what is best.

If you try to please every one, you'll end up pleasing no one, so just go ahead and please yourself.

It's as simple as that.

If you need someone to tell you want to write, then your problem is that you don't have anything to write.

Publishers actually want that. Read their submission guidelines, you find that requested by nearly every publisher.

Uhm... I'm not sure how GRRMartian compares to Twilight Zone or has plot twists. But whatever.

It's also difficult to call what he writes Fantasy.

He write's War Stories and Historical Fiction, in a non-earth world. The fact that it takes place someplace other then earth is the only reason it gets classified as Fantasy at all.

Which, again, leads me to question, what exactly you know about Fantasy, as most everything you've said indicates you know nothing about Fantasy at all.

You even admit you don't like 90% of Fantasy out there, and only like Martian ... but Martin is not really Fantasy to begin with, so.... I don't think Fantasy is what you think it is.

Martian is Historical Fiction. The only reason it's not called that is because it's not set on earth.

I think, you need to look into Historical Fiction genre. Read that instead and see if you can find more books to your taste.

Look into Historical Fiction agents and publishers and see if perhaps you have better luck getting published.

I really think you are desperately confused about what constitutes as Fantasy, and from what you are describing, I don't think your book is Fantasy at all.

The very definition of Fantasy is: "something that is fantastic; causes suspension of disbelief; draws you into a none realist world"

It's VERY difficult to use Historical Fiction and Fantasy in the same sentence and make them fit together.

Fantasy LACKS historical accuracy.

Fantasy LACKS scientific proof.

That's what makes Fantasy, fantasy to begin with,

And here you are, saying you hate Fantasy because it lacks Historical accuracy and scientific proofs, so you are going to write historically accuracy, scientifically proven Fantasy?

I'm sorry, but it is so painfully obvious that you have no clue what Fantasy is, and with your extreme inability to graspe the concept of Fantasy, it's no wonder you can't get Fantasy publishers and Fantasy agents to give you the time of day.

You're coming off to them as a kook and a hack, and a very arrogant amature one at that.

I can even pretend that romantic love existed in the Mesolithic if they want, and make a small caveat to the accuracy.There you go with that arrogance again.Boy do you ever hate romance and love.Are you a robot?Do you have emotions?Do you have feelings?Is their anything other than overbearing narcissism under that giant ego of yours?You know, you are being rejected without explanation, because agents are scared shittless of you, right? Do you know why? Because you are like 1 in every 3 Americans who self diagnose themselves with Aspergers.... an sociopathic narcissist looking for fan favour and ready to implode at moment.Authors like you are a dime a dozen. Agents see dozens of you every single day.And they know, it's NOT good business practice to deal with a sociopath, because a sociopath is a backstabbing bastard who cares only about himself and his overblown ego, and runs around on forums, doing exactly what you are doing right now.Look at all the agents, who's names you've smeared all over Reddit today?You really have to ask why no publisher or agent will touch your book?All they got to do is Google your name to find out how shittily you've treated the other agents before them.Did you think of that?You admit to be hounding their Twitter accounts asking for answers to why they rejected you and now you are pissed because they ignore and block you on social media.Oh geeh, I wonder why?You're acting like a sppoiled brat who has to have his way or else.You're acting like an ingrate hoodlum, who slashes someone's tires, because you didn't like the colour of their mailbox.You're acting like a rabid animal running around the internet attacking every agent you cross paths with.What the hell is wrong with you?You want someone to publish your book?Why the hell should they?What reason have you given them to think they could trust you long enough to work with you?Look at the shit you are pulling on this forum right now.You got an agent here helping you for free, and shit all over her! What the hell is wrong with you?She didn't have to spend her time, working for free, here on Reddit, trying to help you. But she did. And what did you do? Post a hundred comments on every comment she made, to tell her how much you are the greatest king shit on the planet because your Fantasy has historical accuracy and your Fantasy has science and proof and evidence, and your Fantasy is better then every one elses because 90% of Fantasy don't know how to write Fantasy.Oooooh, the teddy bears are marching tonight!You stupid idiot. She was trying to help you.If you don't want help, then why are you asking for it.Don't ask agents to help you if the only thing you really want is a pat on the back and to be told you are king shit and all agents are crap.You winning any personality prizes here.And in the publishing industry you need them. You need them alone.Your public image is going to sell more books then the book's contents ever will.Look at your public image.Take a step back and take a good, long, hard look at what you are doing right here, right now... because guess what... your posts here are about to be read by all 3 million of my readers.Do you really what 3 million Fantasy readers, to read what you wrote here, about how They who read Fantasy are stupid idiots who are only reading Fantasy because they are too stupid to know any better?You really think, calling your potential readers stupid is gonna make them want to read your books?Do you even have a brain in your head, at all? You might want to turn it on and start using it, because there ain't no one who wants to read an author who thinks readers are too stupid to know what they want to read.Damn!Good God!Your readers should be your friend. You thinking of them as your family and treating them like family.Be nice to your readers.Be nice to agents and publishers too.You can't see why no one wants to work with you, because you're too busy telling them all the reasons why they are worthless know nothings in need of your saving.You're not Jesus you know.They don't need you to be their saviour.

• I believe fantasy readers NEED this

Yes, but, what they want and what they need are not always the same thing.

NEED to be told.

Why?

Because they are stupid and arrogant little you has to teach them better?

You who doesn't know the difference between High Fantasy, Low Fantasy, or Epic Fantasy.

You who had a rant on how your novel is better because it contains no castles or wizards?

You who are right now, yelling at an agent, on a public forum, where every professional who may consider publishing you, can easily find your very unprofessional rant telling off an agent?

You who know nothing about the Fantasy genre, but have decided Fantasy readers need to be taught how stupid they are, for not knowing the history behind the myths?

Turn the tables around... would you like a self proclaimed know-it-all, telling you, you were stupid, because you enjoyed reading a novel, that they didn't like because it didn't fit with their world view?

You know that's what you just did right?

Did you use lines like that in your queries to agents as well?

Do you have any idea how stuck up, arrogant, and incredibly unprofessional you are acting right now?

Take a look in the mirror.

Would YOU want to be treated the way you are treating others right now?

Would YOU want to be told you were stupid and NEED to be taught better, for liking to read fiction novels? Did it ever occur to you, most readers don't care the history behind the myths?

NEED.

In bold letters. That really stands out. And it says a lot about your true motives.

Perhaps what you really want then is to write a college text book, but you feel you have to disguise it as a Fantasy novel because it's the only way the little stupid know nothings will ever read it?

WOW! That kind of snippy attitude will certainly get your rejection slips from agents. You might want to brush up on your people skills a little bit.

Publishers/agents/editors, also pick who they work with by their personality. They don't want to work with a hot head who could end up embarrassing their company in public, the way you are doing to a ton of agents in this thread right now.

Reminds me of... those teddy bears. Who in the publishing industry, doesn't remember that very public author meltdown? Don't become that author. Captain Teddy can't get a publishing contract today after that meltdown.

I get that you are frustrated, but you might want to reel in those snide put downs a bit. Okay?

But that line, that says to me even more that the correct road for you may in fact be to post the story on a website. A content site where you can both share your research and your writing side by side. You'll get a lot more eyes on your web pages, then you could ever hope to have on a published novel. I use SBI (Solo Build It) for my content sites. It might be worth looking into. It certain pays more the trade publishing ever did, at least for me, and since posting my fiction online, it's reached far more readers then it ever did in print.

If your goal is reaching as many readers as possible, then building a website is going to bring you way more results then publishing a book.

The average Fantasy book only sells 5,000 copies in it's lifetime, with the bulk of them going out of print just 6 months after publication. Whereas the average content web site gets 500 views per page, per day.

My novels, almost none of them sold more then 1,000 copies. Yet, online, my website gets 70,000 page views a month. I've got way more readers now, by putting my novels up free to read on a website, then I ever could have dreamed possible. If reaching the masses with knowledge they need to know is your primary goal, then I really think you should definitely look into building a content site with SBI.

• But supposedly, asking a publisher or agent to spell it out for you is seen as desperate. Why? The magazine editors I worked for had no problem telling me exatly what they'd like to see in my articles.

Have you ever written anything of your own free will?

You're not a baby. You need to be spoon fed. You need to be told what to write. You have a brain. Use it!

Write what you want to write.

Stop contacting agents and asking: "I want to write a novel, tell me what to write!"

They have thousands of authors with enough common sense to sit down and write a book with being coddled all the way through it, that they don't need to waste time with a whimpering cry baby who can't change his own diapers.

I'm sorry, if that's hash, but you really need a wake up call.

Stop bumming off agents for ideas on what to write and damned story YOU want to write.

• That may be the real reason - I did "Top 10 Prehistoric Fiction Books of the Year" videos on Youtube for the past two years and was unable to find a traditionally published one both times. Nevermind that Denisovan, Neanderthal, Hobbit of Indonesia, Caveman Stories, Neolithic story, and many other terms are high traffic on Google right now and there's almost no one satisfying the need.

Uhm.... I'd like to see your definition of "high traffic".

Okay... I just ran these keywords through BranstomIt

Hobbit of Flores was searched for (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) fewer then 10 times in the last 28 days

1. Denisovan was searched for (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) fewer then 10 times in the last 28 days
2. Neanderthal was searched for 9,657 times (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) in the last 28 days, there are 6,045 content sites about it
3. Hobbit of Indonesia was searched for (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) fewer then 10 times in the last 28 days
4. Caveman Stories was searched for (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) fewer then 10 times in the last 28 days
5. Neolithic story was searched for (on Google, Bing, and Yahoo combined) fewer then 10 times in the last 28 days

The definition of "high traffic" is having been searched for 20,000 or more times in the past 28 days.

I'm sorry, but, I don't think you know SEO and keyword research as well as you think you do.

• That may be the real reason - I did "Top 10 Prehistoric Fiction Books of the Year" videos on Youtube for the past two years and was unable to find a traditionally published one both times.

So what.

Who cares how a book got published.

It's published. It's out there to be read.

Again with the arrogance. Now you are spewing bitter vemon of hatred for self publishing.

Well, whoop-dee-do.

Let's add one more thing to the list of ingrates who a lower on the ladder of life then you.

What the hell is your problem, anyways?

You have so many issues in need of being dewlt with, I don't even know where to begin. Your ego is so big that it has it's own little pet egos.

I mean, you're on here asking for help and, then, you lash out at the commenters with stuff like this. Are you sure you really want help?

Are you sure you are not just a troll, looking to rain down hate on agents, publishers, and self published authors, all because you are great of the great and they don't acknowledge your great greatness so now you got to lay it all out on them to punish them for being too stupid to see how great you are?

My god!

Who the hell do you think you are?

• Also, I'm not getting how they can assume a POV is rushed just because each one is only 15,000 - 20,000words The Bridge of San Louis Ray is 60k I think and has four POVs. Short stories often have less than 5000 and the character's arc is fully realized. If 5 short stories end at the Bridge of San Luis Rey, to me that's a novel....and publishers used to agree, at least, because it's a modern classic.

Modern classic.

You know I own almost 2 million books and I've never heard of it. Fascinating, your definition of classic.

A short story is anything under 50,000 words

a novella is 50k to 120k

a novel is anything over 120k

an epic novel is any over 300k

Industry standard since the late 1700s. Almost 300 years.

You are trying to publish books and you can't even'[t even tell the differance between a short story and a novel?

It sounds to me like you think their is something bad or evil about writing short stories, and you feel you are only a writer if you write novels, but you can't be bothered to write a story that long so you are having a hissy fit because you can't convince a publisher to call your short story a novel.

Publishers are not going to change the dictonary defanition of words just to pamper your over inflated ego.

And you assume that the average person knows what the neolithic period even is? Good one.

And then you wonder why you can not get a contract?

Oh let me think... it might have something to do with the fact that you are so arrogant that you don't feel the need to tell your reader anything about the setting because you think the reader should have a PhD in the neolithic period, just like you do.

You know, you on one hand complain because no one is writing books set in the neolithic period and then you turn around and say you are too good to tell your readers what the neolithic period because they should be like you and already know.

You are doing a damned good job at excluding, neglecting, and aliantating your readers, that's for sure.

And again, with the whole, you are the greatest because YOUR novel is special and differant and not like the rest.

Info dumps are a bad thing in any genre.

Info dumps tend to be written by... shock... people like you, who don't know how to weave information into the character dialouge.

If you feel the only way to tell your reader about the setting is to write info dumps, then you are in serious need of taking some creative writing classes. If it's not too far below you, you might want to look into some community college writing courses, you know, if you can degrade yourself to sitting in class along side us measly little Fantasy writers.

Are you listening to yourself?

One cop out excuse after another to blame everybody else for something you and only you are responsible for!

• I'm just not willing to become a recluse again for six months in the hopes that they might not reject this one without even giving me an explanation.

If you know your characters, it should take you a week or less to write the first draft of a novel. A month at most for an epic novel. 6 months? Really?

You won't pay the bills with that kind of writing speed.

• Every person who's won Writers of the Future and had a book to present has received a book deal, and that route is much less stressful for me and I know I can win it.

So what?

Who cares?

What are you trying to prove?

And to who?

No one cares who won what.

The only people who even know those awards exist are the people who enter them.

People in the real world never heard of them and don't give a shit about them.

Those awards means nothing. Absolutely nothing.

You are putting way too much emphasis on winning so hack prize that no body cares about anyways.

And there are millions without YouTube channels who get book deals.

And there are 50million YouTube channels... think about it. Out of 50million only 7 got book deals? Do you really think their YouTube channel had anything to do with it?

People follow you if they like your personality.

If you don't treat people like shit, they follow you.

What's there to know?

You know that fewer then 10% of published authors have an agent right?

Do you also know that MOST only got an agent AFTER they had major book deals?

And, you are aware that an agent is only going to get you a contract IF you have a book worth publishing and a personality worth promoting?

Think about it.

You have yet to write a book, and your personality is borderline shit. You're gonna have a hard time finding an agent unless you first write book and take some social skills classes.

• I was also told by a published twitter mentor that it's a highly original concept and I needed to find a visionary agent, but I'm not sure one exists or if I should even follow that advice.

Yep. I'm gonna agree with this.

You are definitely dealing with something that is rather unique and not main stream, and publishers tend to want new versions of the same old same old, because they know it'll sell. They aren't as willing to put a lot of risk into something new and untested. Which leads me even more to believe that perhaps you should look into self publishing on Amazon Kindle, then building a website, and focus on writing non-fiction articles for your site, while promoting your self pubbed fiction based off the research.

Hugh Howey did that. Now look at him. #3 highest paid Kindle author of all time. First self pubbed author to sell 3 million copies of a self pubbed book in a single year. They making a movie out of his book now. He started out with a book no publisher would touch because it was too unique. So he set up a website, self pubbed the book... and now those publishers who rejected him are kicking themselves.

• I just wish I could find the statistics of youtubers with major book deals and the average number of subscribers they have. Then I could have a goal in mind and know when I should have my next novel ready to query.

Again... all the people you listed, it's not about their subscriber base, it's about the YouTube Network they signed up with. Every one of them joined Maker Studios, which is Disney. The only way you are getting a book contract like them, is if you submit a YouTube Network application to Marker Studios.

• I agree with you that it looks like it's a non-fiction thing. I haven't found any fiction, but I hoped it might be because they can't write fiction and their channel isn't about fiction.

Yes, there is a fiction one. I forget her name, but she's a BookTuber, and in 2016 she got a $10,000 contract from Penguin. I think it was a YA novel. Can't remember. But she got it, because she did a series talking about her book as she was writing it and some employee of Penguin saw her videos and wanted the book before anyone else got hold of it. So she got a contract before she even finished writing the draft.

You hoped it was because they can't write fiction?

What kind of sick twisted person are you that you go around hoping for bad things?

You need a psychiatrist really badly, before you become a stalker and start killing off these agents you are bitching about. OMG! You are so.... I don't know!

How does someone get like you?

Have you no ability to feel emotions or compassion on any level at all?

• Anyone can write nonfiction about the subject they've been vlogging for 6 years with the help of an editor.

There it is again. That arrogant, you are the greatest king shit on the planet and every other author is a hack who let's editors do the work for them.

Clearly you've never worked with an editor.

I highly suggest you cough up te $200 a hr to have an editor edit your books, a see how little work an editor actually does.

You can better work from most spellcheckers then you can from the average editor. Sad but true. All an editor does is spell check your work, they ain't writing it for you and whoever told you they did, is lying to you.

Anyone can write shit, only YOU vomit gold bricks on the page, right?

Good god. Do you even listen to yourself?

And you wonder why no one wants to publish you?

Maybe it has something to do with the shitty way you treat EVERY BODY around you!

• But the New York Times says they got their deals only because of the channel and interviewed them about it. Plus these guys are outright saying they got it because of their channel. When you have a million views, corporations will pay you 10,000 just for one product placement. According to the New York Times houses accept them because a top youtuber is guaranteed to make the New York Times bestseller list due to release day sales, although their books have little staying power.

Yep.

That's what it's all about.

Publishers are in it to make money.

If they can not guarantee money from your book, they don't want it no matter how good it is.

Publishers are not in it to teach any one anything.

Publishers only work with authors who are sweet and pleasant and smile for the camera and are NOT on forums berating every agents who ever rejected them.

You, buddy are bad for business, and the more posts you make like the ones here, the harder you are going to have it in finding a contract.

No publisher is going to work with a liability like you who runs around screaming raving insanities all over the internet.

PLEASE step back and look in the mirror!

Look at how you are talking, how you are acting, how you are treating people!

No one likes being treated like this!

You are being seen by others as a very mean spirited person!

Really try to calm down and look at what you are saying to and about the agents you supposedly want to work for.

Try to see yourself as other people see you.

Do you see other people running around like raving lunatics, screaming and ranting, and bashing agents all over the internet the way you are doing right now?

Think about it.

No professional authors acts like you do, because no agent worth his salt is gonna give a second glance at any author who did!

Grow up and act like an adult.

Damn!

• I am a recluse when I write a book because I'm obsessive compulsive and ADD, and receiving 2 form rejections a week for 6 months was a horrible experience.

You know I know people, family member who I live with who have these things... I'd highly recommend you get diagnosed and ask for a 2nd opinion, because what you are displaying on this forum is Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Sociopathy. (Yes, I have a degree in abnormal psychology, I am trained to know the symptoms of these things. You are displaying so VERY BAD symptoms here.)

• Well, I'm going to write prehistoric fiction stories which are indistinguishable from high fantasy with mind-blowing twists at the end and appendixes which cite their plaeoanthropological reality.

Then do it.

But do you even know what High Fantasy means? It's a world with magic and fantastical creatures, set in a world that is NOT Earth.

What you are describing of your story, sounds to me like Low Fantasy - a world set in a real Earth era, with limited magic and historical realism.

I love it!

I love your passion and your drive.

Remove the arrogance and the holier then thou crap, and you'll do fine.

I really think you have the drive and passion t follow your dreams and make them happen, but you are being tripped up by this whole attitude you got thinking you are best of the best and no one is good enough for you.

Like I said before, self publishing is not a bad thing... it only seems bad to YOU because you are putting way TOO MUCH emphasis on the prestige of a big house publishing contract.

You are dealing with a small niche, and there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all.

But there is everything wrong with running around like a bully rabid bull dog putting every one down because they can't recognize your greatness.

Newsflash - you are no better then anyone else. We are all just human beings struggling to survive in this world. We need each other to help each other. The sooner you climb off your ivory tower and accept the fact that you are a lowly human being, the sooner you'll find yourself getting contracts for your books.

You have a powerful personality, and I don't think you realize that.

It's a good thing when used correctly. That powerful personality will take you places... but if you just let it run lose untamed, it'll hurt people, yourself included. And what's happening right now.

You have a lot going for you and you can make this happen, if you just reel in that ego and spend you energy in more productive places.

Make friends with the agents on social media... not enemies.

Peace and love, not war and hate, will get you so much further.

You have potential. Use it. Don't waste it on forum rants. Don't waste it stalking and hounding agents on Twitter. Pour all that energy into writing your book. Fill the pages with passion.

You have the passion.

You have the drive.

Now use it!

You can do this!

Anyone with the levels of passion you have, can move mountains. Nothing can hold you back, but you yourself. You are holding you back.

Let go of the fears and insecurities, and run with the wind.

Stop worrying what other people think.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks.

No amount of awards or contracts is ever going to soothe your soul.

The only think that will sate your appetite is holding the book in your hand, while giving lectures at colleges. And you don't need a big house publisher or an agent for that.

Go for it.

Series are the way to go. They keep readers coming back for more.

At EVERY point. Right from day one.

Because every time you submit your book, agents, editors, and publishers are Googling your name, reading your posts, and seeing first hand the type of person you are, how you carry yourself online. And that has far more weight then the book itself. Your draft can be changed, but it's hard to change personality.

Ask yourself this, every time you post on Reddit, Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, or any other social network: would you be proud or ashamed to let your publisher read this post?

• Or maybe I should hit them with a non-fiction book first. I've got two in the works - the Reality of Myth discussing the origins of myth in real prehistoric creatures and cultures and also the official Hearse Ghost Tours coffee table book, with pictures of hearses and folklore of Savannah.

I rather think this would be a better way to start.

It definitely sounds to me like you have more invested interest in the non-fiction side of writing, then the fiction side of it.

• Hearse Ghost Tours has won top 10 tourist attractions in America by USA and the Today Show several years in a row appears on several reality shows a year...but I have no idea whether agents think it would have a market outside of Savannah or whether publishing a non-fic helps toward publishing fiction, which is my main goal.

Again... all you seem to care about is awards, prizes, and your name in lights.

You won't get very far with that as your goal. No one ever does.

Start caring about how you can help others, instead of who you can walk on to reach the top, and you'll get much farther in life.

SOURCE: I'm the author of 130+ Epic Length Dark Fantasy novels published since 1978; also an AuthorTube YouTuber; my answers come to you from personal experience

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Note: there are likely spelling errors on this site, and I am unlikely to see the ... I fix them when I find them, but, there are many issues here...

Note: English is not my first language, Shetlean Scottish is my native language, there are likly spelling and grammar errors, as I do not know American English and am attempting to write it by sounding words out.

Many times that Americans think a word on my site is misspelled, often it is not misspelled, it is just I mixed up languages and wrote it in Scottish without realizing I mixed the Scottish in with the English. Also our grammar is somewhat reversed from English grammar so words that are seeming in the wrong order for American English, is usually because they are in the correct order for Scottish and I either put English words in Scottish order by mistake or was unaware English put them in a different order then Scottish does.

For those unaware, Scottish Shetlean looks like this:

American English to Scottish:

a bit (piece) = a party --- EXAMPLE: "And some know a bit of Latin " > "And somme kan of latyn a party "

a long distance from = A piece fae

a piece of = the bit --- EXAMPLE: "The duck ate a piece of bread " > "The deuk ett the bit breid "

about the banks (on the shore/at the beach) = aboot da banks

accomplishments = kunnandi

After = Back o --- EXAMPLE: " After Halloween" > "Back o Hallomas "

alive (living) = kvikr

Always on the move = Never aff o da go

am I not = amn't I --- EXAMPLE: "Am I not invited? " > "I amn't invited? or Amn't I invited?"

are = is --- EXAMPLE: "Are you going soon?" > "Is ya to be going soon?"

autumn = dah haihst

belong to = fylgja

best = bettah moost

betray (verb) = svíkja

bewildered = villhyggjandi

building = biggin up --- EXAMPLE: "building confidence in everyday use " > " biggin up confidence in ivvryday øs "

built = builded --- EXAMPLE: "He built a new porch." > "Hims builded a new porch."

cast a spell = hoodooed

cat = kat (sounds like "caught") --- EXAMPLE: "Is it an orange cat?" > "Be he a o'jinn kat?"

child = bairn

church = kirk

color = colour

danger = hœttr

daren't = darena

daring = djarfr

dark = dökk

dark elf = Dökkálfr

dark-elves = Døkkálfar

darker = dökká

do you agree = ,eh? --- EXAMPLE: "That's a fine looking woman, do you agree?" > "Dair's ah right bonnie lass, eh?"

do you want to come too = ,eh? --- EXAMPLE: "I'm going to the store, do you want to come with me?" > "Me go to shope, eh?"

each = eche --- EXAMPLE: "Which each person can understand " > "That kan eche man understonde "

educated = lered --- EXAMPLE: "Both among the educated and the uneducated " > "As wel among lered as lewed "

elf = Alfr

Elf = Álfr

Elf Home = Álfheimr

Elf World = Álfheimr

elf-advice = Ælfred

elf-beautiful = ælfscyne

elf-friend = Ælfwine

elf-guardian (female) = Ælfwaru

elf-guardian (male) = Ælfweard

elf-powerful = Ælfric

everyday = ivvryday

eyelids = eye ledes --- EXAMPLE: "He closed his eyelids." > "Hims did shut hims eye ledes"

fair = faire --- EXAMPLE: "Going to the fair." > "Done gone went to the faire."

feild = felde --- EXAMPLE: "Standing in the feild." > "Stoodt in thems felde."

further = ferther --- EXAMPLE: "I looked further." > "I dids lokid ferther."

green = grene --- EXAMPLE: "Look at the green hedges and woods." > "Look see at thems heigges and holtz so grene."

handsome = braw --- EXAMPLE: "He is very handsome " > "Him wicked braw "

have faith = trúa

Have no doubts about our doing it = Nae faer o wis

Have no liking for this. = Hae nae brou o this.

have not = ain't

He knows how many beans make five. = He kens the laid frae the croun o the causey.

He knows which side his bread is buttered on. = He kens whilk side his bannock's buttert on.

Head for = Mak wye for

head rope in fishing nets and lines = baak

head to head = Be at the knag and the widdie

horse fly = klegsie

I = Me

I Think = Me thinks --- EXAMPLE: "I think we're late. " > "Me thinks that we is late. "

I wish you well for the future = Lang may yer lum reek (translation: Long may your chimney smoke)

idiot = eejit --- EXAMPLE: "You idiot." > "Ya eejit."

idiot = numpty

if = iffy or yif--- EXAMPLE: "If you don't mind..." > "Iffy yas does no care mind...."; "If you'll stay with me long enough = "Yif ye so longe with me wil dwelle". "

I'll be even with you = A'll see day aboot wi ye

know = ken

looked = lokid

looked = lokid --- EXAMPLE: "I looked up." > "I lifte up me eye ledes and lokid ferther."

magic = hoodoo

naked = nøkkviðr

needle = bodkin

neither = nouther --- EXAMPLE: "Who know neither Latin nor French " > "That kan nouther latyn ne frensch "

No = Nay --- EXAMPLE: "No, I don't think so. " > "Nay, me thinks not. "

Nobody knew = not-knew nobody

Noontide = Da heicht o da day

NOTE: Extra words are often added. --- EXAMPLE: "Did you meet the new family next door?" > "Dids ya gets a chance to stop by and meets with thems new folk that move-ed in down yawn there next doors to ya, eh?"

NOTE: Extra words are often added. --- EXAMPLE: "He went to Rite-Aid to pick up his prescription" > "Hims did go to that yawn there new fangled store the new folks call that Rite Aid place, to gets himself some of thems there pills what the doctor gone and tells him to take each morning, a-yep, hims did."

old = olde --- EXAMPLE: "But educated and uneducated, old and young " > "Bot lered and lewed olde and yonge "

orange = o'jinn

out = oot --- EXAMPLE: "The cat wants to go out." > "The kat he do wants oot."

outside = oot dair

people = fokk --- EXAMPLE: "the people of Shetland " > "Shetland fokk "

people = folke --- EXAMPLE: "Look at all those people." > "Lookie at all thems folke."

poorly = febelly --- EXAMPLE: "Who know French very poorly " > "That kan frensch ful febelly "

Recognising = Recognisin --- EXAMPLE: "Recognising the bilingual nature of Shaetlan speakers " > "Recognisin da wye at Shaetlan spaekers is bilingual "

shield = skjoldr

Since = For --- EXAMPLE: "Since that is your native language " > "For that is youre kynde langage "

tell = telle --- EXAMPLE: "I'll tell you in English " > "In englysch tonge I schal you telle "

the = da, de, or is not used at all --- EXAMPLE: "I went to the store" > "Me goes to da shoppe" or "Me goes to da shoppe" or "Me goes to shoppe"

them = dem, dem dair --- EXAMPLE: "I went with them" > "Me goes wit dem dair"

there = dair --- EXAMPLE: "I want those potatoes" > "Me be wanting dem dair tatetas."

they = dey

To where = whither --- EXAMPLE: ""Where you go, I will go." " > ""Whither thou goest, I'll go."

understand = understonde

understand = understonden --- EXAMPLE: "Some understand English " > "And somme understonden englysch "

very = wicked --- EXAMPLE: "very good" > "wicked good"; "very bad" > "wicked bad"; "very cold" > "wicked cold"

Where = Whither --- EXAMPLE: "Where is the restroom? " > "Whither is the privy?"

Yes = Yea or Aye --- EXAMPLE: "Yes, I think so. " > "Yea, me thinks so. " or "Aye, me thinks so. "

For anyone actually interested in learning my native language, the Scottish government has THIS listed as the official dictionary of our people:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d7352954b7fd1c9dbdfef4/t/65ddb2749d5e0541a01009c0/1709027964496/Spaektionary_2024feb.pdf  

The Scottish government provides this document to show our language in use: https://www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk/t4-media/one-web/uhi-shetland-images-and-documents/documents-/shaetlan/Shaetlan-Language-Plan-2022-Shaetlan.pdf 

More information about our language can be found on this website:  https://www.iheardee.com  which is written in my native language.

However, there is also other reasons why words might be misspelled, or why I might not understand someone when they speak to me.

My grandmother Helen Ricker Allen, was from Unst, Shetland, Scotland, and she the one who raised me. She taught me to read and write, but it was Shetlain that she taught me. She died when I was 8 years old, and I was locked in a woodshed after her furneral, I escaped the woodshed 27 years later at age 31, and have been trying to learn how to speak and write English since then.

It is a very great struggle.

At age 37 I took remidial reading and speaking classes at Southern Maine Community College, but we are Gypsies and Gypsy men do not allow us Gypsy women to have education, and so, while at college, on November 14, 2013, I was beaten with a golf club, while I was 8 months pregnet, breaking my spine, hips, and knees, killing my baby and leaving me quardepaleic since.

Now my primary focus these past 13 years has been on relearning to use my hand so I could type... as of 2023, I have regained the use of my right thumb, and first two right fingers, and after 10 years offline, I am back online due to I can use three finguers.

I never went to school, so I do not know maths and numbers and sciences, and I do not know what else would have been taught to me in school. We are Scottish Gypsies and Gypsy culture does not allow females to go to school. Being born female was already a great sin, but my grandmother took great risk in teaching me reading and writing. At 4 years old I was punished by my Uncle Bruce for knowing how to read, by being beaten in the face with a cinder block brick, that broke my right jaw and left me with garbaled near-mute spoken words ever since.

Because no one ever spoke words to be face to face from he time I was 8 years old until I was 37 years old (I escaped the room at age 27, but did not start college until 37), I have no training in how to vocally sound out or speak the words I write or read. I can read words, but I do not know how to sound out or say those words. I can write words, but I do not know how to match the written word against the spoken word. I struggle to associate spoken words at all, or make them match up with writen words.

Esentially, written words and spoken words are two completly seperate languages in my brain, and I have difficulty understanding spoken words.

If you say a sentance to me with your mouth, chances are very high I will have ZERO understanding of what you said and I will not be able to ander you.

However, if you WRITE down that exact same sentabnce, I can understand you and can type a written responce to you.

My doctors tell me this is a side effect of extreme isolation and neglect and lack of human contact during my toddler, childhood, teen, and young adult years, and that my brain never deveoloped to comprehend spoken vocal words due to no one ever speaking to me in over three decades of the first half of my life.

While I can read and write, American English (somewhat) I do no know how words are sounded out, what they are supposed to sound like. I readand write by shape recognition, not by sound/vocal recognition, so when reading and writing I do no "hear the words in my head" as I am told most people do when they read and write. In other words... I see "c a t" and think "c-a-t" I do not think "cat" nor do I "see" an image of a cat, no do I "hear" the word cat spoken. I'm told that this is very rare and that most people read and write by sounding out the words and linking them to visual mind images, while hearing the sound of the word in their head. I neiher hear words in my head no see images of things in my head. I'm told this is what makes me both a speed reader and speed writer, because I'm not tripped up by hear sounds or seeing images in my head like nomal people would be doing... however, I'm also told this is why my spelling and grammar are very poor, because my brain is not hear the sounds of the words or seeing visual images of the objects the words represent, so my mind also does not register spelling and grammer errors at all.

As I was only let out of the woodshed on Sundays to go to the Cape Elezabeth Ward Church of the August Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I was never allowed to go to school or hospital either. No adults ever talked to me because I was evil for comitted the sin of being born female, so I never learned how to speak properly and do not know how to sound out words to say them.

I was 42 years old, in 2016 when, while having an MRI for my spine, the doctors found out my speak issue was caused by a broken jaw as a toddler that was healed wrong because not being allowed to go to doctors. I had surgury to fix that, and since 2016 have been trying to learn how to use my jaw and touge so I can speak vocal words now.

Since 2023 my primary focus shifted to relearning to walk. I can now, in 2026, sit up for 2 or 3 hours a day, and can sand with a cane for a few minutes, and can walk for around five thousand feet in 2 to 3 segments a day, with the help of pushing my wheelchair like a walker.

As of 2026, with a slight return to using my fingers and legs, I am once again focused on trying to learn the American English, but I live in mortal fear of my uncles and male cousins, as they are so hateful of allowing me to have education.

have no one to help me to know if I am doing words correctly, and as such, I have no way of knowing if there are spelling and grammar errors, but I asume there are, and I fix them when I learn them, but I do not know what I do not know and spelling American words is a thing I do bnot know.

I have Low Fucntioning Kanner's Syndrom, also known as "RainMan Type of Autism" aka REAL and ACTUAL Autism, not to be confused with Aspergers, High Functioning Autism, or and of thr 861 illnesses on the Autism Spectrum. An Autism Spectrum Disorder is an illness that has symptoms similar to Autism but IS NOT Autism. If you have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, it LITERALLY MEANS you do NOT have Autism.

I am medically diagnosed as "kanner's syndrome, actual autism, the rainman type, profoundly retarded autistic savant, with a general IQ of 73, and an writing IQ of 221" but they added that they did not know how to properly diagnose me as I am "technically a feral child" and they don't know "how much is the autism, and how much is simple horrific levels of abuse and neglect induced post traumatic stress disorder that will go away with proper socilization".

It means I know how to write, I can write a lot, and it is next to impossible for you to teach me how to do literally anythig else because my brain only knows how to write and doesn;t know how to do anything else..
There's a reason, when I do book signings, people are quick to say: "Okay, what's the joke? why is this stupid retard here? where's the real author? I know this retard isn't the author. where are you hiding the author, why is this fucking retard here"

The end result is, I have near zero social interaction... my 3 years in college was the ONLY face to face interaction I have ever had with humans in my entire life, and I struggle deeply to understand MOST words used by MOST people when they ask me question. And so I suffer from a huge lack of understanding many words people say to me, how to translate those words into spelling, and how to translate what it is that has been said.

The fact remains hat until there exists a human on this planet who is willing to sit down and teach me what words spoken line up with and match what words written, this deficent is unlily to improve. But the fact also remains, that I am simply far too profoundly retarded for anyone to even try to make any attempt at all even to speak a friendly "hgelloe" or "good morning" when passing me on the street, so I have lost all hope of anyone ever either being my friend, being willing to teach me how to match spoken words to written words, or how to speak to other humans.

While there are around 20k pages on this website, most of them are blocked from search engines, with only around 800 of them available for appearing in Google/Bing/etc search results. The remainder can only be accessed via the various links found throughout this site. This was done deliberately on my part, and I did it because the bulk of the pages on this website are chapters from 138 novels and 423 novellas, so only the first page of each novel and novella indexed by search engines, and the remainder are linked in order, one page at a time, via clicking "next page" at the end of each. So if you are looking for a specific page from a specific novel, Google can't help you.

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@eelkat i just found out there is yet another bizarre rumour going around. where are these wild rumours coming from? who is starting them? and why? ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

@eelkat since I've been flooded with hundreds of messages the past two weeks asking if I still own "the world's most haunted car", yes, and here it is, filmed today May 18, 2026… but my son Xavier is dead, i am crippled and given that people are AGAIN showing up calling my Dodge "haunted", calling my friend "an alien", calling me "transgender", and spreading wild defamation slander connecting me to Stephen King, I think I need to start taking down the contact information of every blogger, podcaster, youtuber, and social media account spreading these rumors, and sue every single one of them for CAUSING my car to be cut in half May 10, 2010, for CAUSING the backhoe that drove over my house August 8, 2013, for CAUSING my son's murder November 14, 2013, for CAUSING me to be crippled and in a wheelchair November 14, 2013, and for CONTINUING to CAUSE harassers to show up in person to harass me near daily, STILL now in 2026. EVERYONE telling you my car is haunted, telling you my friend is an alien, calling my car "the goldeneagle", calling my friend "Etiole", or trying to connect me or my car to Stephen King, is lying to you. They crippled me when I was 8 months pregnant, and a woman with a golf club, severed my spine and bashed my baby's head in, I spent 9 years relearning to walk, and the FBI is 13 years into the murder investigation and not yet identified the attacker who crippled me and killed my baby, both violently with a golf club and the FBI believes that it is friends and family of the woman who did it, are the ones who started and spread the rumors saying my car is haunted, saying I'm an alien abductee, saying all kinds of similar bs about aliens, ufos, ghosts, witchcraft, demons, and Stephen King connections, even though I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, ufos, demons, and had never heard of Stephen King before 30k of his fans showed up in my yard trying to find my car! FBI believes the backhoe driver and the murderer are the same person and it is a developer who wanted my land and so started the Stephen King, ghost, and alien rumors all in an attempt to drive me off my land, and when it didn't work they drove a backhoe over my house, and when that didn't work they crippled me and killed my son. Why are they doing this? How do I get them to stop? ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

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Do you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Avenue, Old Orchard Beach, Maine on August 8, 2013? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son on November 14, 2013 at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me July 26, 2016 at scarborough WalMart,... they arrived the first time with a backhoe on August 8, 2013, that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since....

... which means it is now only a few weeks from the 14th anniversary of my son's murder. I was 8 month pregnant November 14, 2013, and a student ay SMCC, and coming out of the Buglight Lighthouse art studio after art class, when a still unidentifiedwoman wielding a golf club attacked me, severed my spine, while I was 8 months pregnant, triggered early labour, then killed my son minutes after he was born.

While accusing me of being transgender, screaming "transvestite freak" and "look at that thing, that's Ken's son in a dress"... while I was 8 months pregnant.

My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son and crippled me, arrived the first time with a backhoe that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since.

The backhoe driver returned November 14, 2013, armed with a golf club, used it to break my spine and smash my baby's brains out on the ground

On November 14, 2013, my son was murdered. I was 8 months pregnant, leaving my college classroom, and just getting into my car, when 3 strangers, a man and two women, armed with golf clubs leapt out from behind my car screaming "kill or be killed, kill the transvestite freaks, kill them all before they kill us! look at that thing! That is Ken's son, look at how it's dressed! kill the transvestite freaks! kill or be killed"... while the bald man and the red haired woman chanted this over and over, the blonde woman, lunged with the golf club.

She severed my spine, I am now a quadriplegic, and been paralyzed arms and legs, and in a wheelchair for 13 years now. She broke my hips, my knees, my legs, ruptured most of my discs, and shattered three of my vertebrae so bad that the shards of bone acted like glass and embedded themselves into my spinal column nerve bundle.

The attack also triggered labour.

My son was born in that parking lot, and he lived only a couple of minutes, before the deranged blonde woman, beat his head in and smashed his brains out, with the same golfclub she had just used to sever my spine and leave me crippled for the rest of my life.

Realizing that I was not transgender, and they'd just murdered a baby, the man grabbed the 2 women and forcibly dragged them away to a 4 door white pickup truck, and they left me there to die.

The FBI told me later, that a few weeks before this attack, and transwoman, had murdered a cis woman, in a parking lot, abou 20 miles away from where I was attacked. The FBI, believes that my attackers, had somehow found out I wrote transgender fiction, connecting my real name to my penname, (my father's name is in fact "Ken", and I do have a brother) and believed that I wrote transgender fiction, because I was myself transgender, even though I'm not transgender. The FBI, believes the attackers, thought I was my brother, pretending to be a woman.

The FBI investigation, into my son's murder, has dragged on for 13 years, and still now in 2026, continues on, with the FBI, still not having yet identified my attackers, and only guessing at what their motive was.

Thus we come to 2014, and the full swing change of the series I write. WHY my series, went from just a transman main character living life, to the full blown Mpreg genre series that it now is today.

Before the attack, I had a chance of having a baby. I don't know. And because I'm in America, I'm too old to adopt. You have to be under 45 years old to adopt a baby. That is the law in America. I was informed this, when we tried to adopt, now that my injuries leave me unable to get pregnant a 9th time.

Thus began my obsessively writing, my transman main character, pregnant. Always pregnant now. Every time. Every story. Stories that now fully focus on pregnancy, labour, miscarriages, babies dying, babies living, raising babies... the whole series, since 2014 has devolved into an outright baby obsession.

Meanwhile, reborn baby dolls were suggested to me by my therapist, and have also become a deeply obsessive part of my life. Because 13 years ago my son was murdered minutes after he was born, because a transphobic bigot mistook me for being transgender, I'm STILL in a wheelchair, struggling to relearn to use my arms and legs, now 13 years later, and I'm still DAILY dealing with police officers and FBI agents who while they are trying to find my son's killer, they are also daily reminding me... oh, yeah, my son was murdered, literally ripped out of my belly, by a transphobe. Who still has not been located and walks free to kill again.

The golfclub woman as she looked during the golf club attack at Southern Maine community college November 14, 2013. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026. If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

The golfclub woman as she looked during the shopping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart July 26, 2016. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026. If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

The 2nd woman as she looked at both attacks, her hair goes all the way down to her knees. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026. If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer's accomplice, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322

Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

I am a legally blind quadriplegic, and low verbal, I have also published 138 novels in the last 48 years. It's not as impossible as people think. The problem being blind and quadriplegic, medically have different meanings then how those two words are used medically.

Fewer than 3% of all blind people see nothing. While 97% people who are classified as fully blind are able to see up to two feet in front of them. Legally blind means I can see more then two feet in front of me but not far enough to see twenty feet in front of me. In my case I can see about eight feet.

Quadriplegic, has varying levels, it means having a damaged nerve bundle in the spinal column causing limited mobility of all 4 limbs, (in my case this was done by a women wielding a golf club, who also beat my 8 month infant's head to pulp on the parking lot tarmak, at the same time she severed my spine with the same golf club; both on November 14, 2013; the FBI investigation into my son's murder and my being crippled has gone on now for 13 years, a few weeks away from 14 years now, and the FBI has still not identified the killer or her motive). Contrary to popular misconception, quadriplegic does NOT mean ZERO movement, it means means limited movement, specifically in means unable to lift arms over head, unable to grip fingers around objects to pick them up, and unable to stand for more then 5 minutes to a time. Because there are so many thousands of nerves in each limb it is actually very rare for there to be 100% no movement, but how much, and to what extent varies by patent depending upon the specific point of injury to the spinal column.

Meaning typing is still possible for over 60% of all quadriplegics.

In my case, it was the lower spine that was severed, cutting off completly my ability to move my right leg, leaving limited feeling in my left leg, and an ability to stand but not walk, with crutches, for the first 9 years. I regained enough nerve growth in my legs by the 9th year to be able to take ten or twelve steps allowing me to get out of bed for the first time since the golf club attack; This in turn lead to me being able to start using a wheelchair, as I was able to sit upright for the first time as well.

Because the shattered vertebrae bone fragments are broken off completly and embedded into the nerve bundle just above my tailbone, doctors were saying I would never walk again, but now at 13 years, I am able to push mu wheelchair like a walker, a distance of almost a thousand steps a day. Though doctors are still doubtful I will ever walk "normally" again, I have proven them wrong, when their said 13 years ago, that I would never walk again at all.

But because of the placement of the damage to my spine, regaining hand use, was always thought possible, it was just a matter of waiting long enough for nerve regrowth, along side daily finger exercises. I was able to continue writing, after becoming quadriplegic, because I still have use of my right thumb, and 2 fore figures of my right hand. And can type 90 words per minute with those 3 fingers.

I however have no wrist strength, elbow strength, or shoulder strength, so I am not able to form a fist, or lift objects, or brush my hair, or my teeth, all thing I have to have my caretaker do. But, those things are not needed for typing. Unfortunately, my pinky and ring fingers are "nerve dead" and drag over the keyboard, and cause horrific spelling errors and typos, which are incredibly frustrating to deal with.

Unfortunately trying to edit errors myself, just makes the errors worse, because those same two fingers drag over the keyboard yet again. Prior to the golf club attack, I rarely had spelling errors; now I got more spelling errors then someone is learning English as second language. Editing is a challenge, that I've had to accept, I simply can not do myself, and I have to hire several editors to help with that.

Low verbal means sounds can still be made, sounds that software programs like Dragon can be trained to recognize and translate, and type into full words. More then half my novels were typed with this method.

I still have a long ways to go before I am anything close to being able to do the things I could do before the golf club woman beat my baby's brains out and shattered my spine. And you know what's more frustrating then how slow mu medical progression has been? The fact that it's been 13 years and the police and FBI are still coming up at dead ends as to who the woman who murdered my baby was, or why she even did it.

My son's 14th birthday is only a few weeks away, but he didn't even get to live long enough to celebrate his 1st birthday, I don't even know why. And I can't wait to regain my ability to walk again, because regaining my ability to walk, means gaining the ability to go outside and start looking for my son's murderer myself instead of sitting at home trapped in a wheelchair waiting for the police and FBI to to find her. So, writing isn't a big priority for me anymore. I only write now, as a way to exercise my hands, in between relearning to walk.

Never let a disability stop you. Plenty of writers, artists, athletes, do not let either blindness, speech impediments, or limited mobility hold then back from perusing their careers.

Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

More information about the backhoe attack, my son's murder, my becoming crippled, my becoming homeless, and the FBI investigation around all of it, can be found here.

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My response to MUFON's Amphibious Aliens? My response to Coast to Coast AMs Arrival in my yard? Back to the Home Page Wendy Christine Allen, Old Orchard Beach's Autistic Author, Artist, Illustrator, & Art Car Designer Counting Down to the 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978) Yes, I am aware there are a lot of spelling errors on this site. No, I likely will not be fixing most of them. I have been quadriplegia/paralyzed arms and legs since November 14, 2013; As of 2026, I have regained use of two fully functional fingers on my right hand, and only stiff limited movement of all remained eight fingers. This causes most of the typos and spelling errors as my near-dead pinky and ring fingers tend to drag over the other letters on the keyboard. Attempts to correct errors, often causes more errors for the same reason. Much of my writing is also speech to text, but I have "profound low functioning, non-verbal kanner's syndrome aka autism aka the rainman type" (that is what the medical diagnosis called it), I have the medically diagnosed retarded type of autism, that medical doctors mean when they say "real and actual autism", I do not have the cool trend self diagnoses tiktok type of "autism". What this means is, in spite of five decades of trying, I have very limited vocal speaking abilities and a lower then average vocabulary, that leaves my speaking ability around the level of a 4 or 5 year old child; I do not know math or money or clocks and. I also, was raised by a Shetland Scottish Grandmother (Helen Ricker Allen) until her death when I was 8 years old, and she did not speak American, she spoke Shetland/Scottish, Shetlandic, which is a Nordic language, different from Scotts Language, not related to Gaelic which is what many Scottish speak, and while classified as a type of Scottish English is is considered "Olde medieval Norse" dialect of Scottish English and spoken by fewer then two thousand people as of 2026. It is the language of Scottish Travelling Gypsies, which is what we racial are. I was 31 years old first time I ever heard American English, and only started to learn American English at 42 years old. Right now in 2026 at 51 years old, I am able to speak American English on around the level of an 8 year old child, and greatly do not understand over 90% of American words, American slang, and American media references. What this means is, OFTEN words you think are spellt wrong (like color vs colour, or traveling vs travelling, are in fact NOT spelt wrong, because I use Scottish spellings) and often when I hear an American word, I spell it phonetically because I do not know the correct American spelling. Likewise we Scottish do not have words like my or your, and so say me and you, in places where Americans would say my and your.  I also use Scottish word meanings, not American word meanings, for example Unicorn means a blood thirsty flesheating shapeshifting sea creature that comes on land and pretends to be a wounded horse to lure in humans to eat, it can only be captured by a virgin. But when I say Unicorn, a word I frequently use, because I write Unicorn folkloric short stories... I find that most Americans connect Unicorns to children's cartoons, gay pride, or swinging sex lives... I struggle to understand who in their right mind thought the most bloodthirsty monster of Scotland folklore was good fodder for children's cartoons or "sex positive" mascots, me thinks Americans need to brush up on the lore of Unicorns using their horns as sword to stabbed people's eyes out, while gallopping through swamps with rows of bloody Human heads hanging from their backs via braids made of Human entrails... really, why did Americans thinks a monster like a Unicorn was fit for children's cartoons or sex positivity? Americans is weird. All this to say... speech to text software, struggles badly with my thick Shetland accent, my slurred Autism speech impediment, and causes additional misspellings and typos because it can not figure out what words I am trying to say. And while I could take the time time to run all of it through a spell checker, that does require better hand mobility then I have, to copy the text from one program to the next and manually click each word, with finger mobility that I simply do not have, but also, most of my time is spent in trying to relearn to walk, and if you are local, you've probably seen this as I'm a stubborn bitch who refused to accept the doctor disnosis that I will never walk again, so, I walk around the block every day pushing my wheelchair, refusing to sit in my wheelchair, and... ...it's taking me 13 years to do it, but, I'm not actually able to stand up and make it all the way around the block now, and my focus on trying to relearn to walk is far more important to me, then catering to your pampered arse by fixing spelling errors, when there are far bigger problems to worry about in life, the spelling errors made by a quadriplegic who is typing this with her only two functioning fingers. Also, in recent years, I've watched the internet devolve into a mindless clusterfuck of ChatGPT written everything. Everyone sounds the same online these days, because no writes their own work anymore. Every website out there has become a carbon copy of each other, because they are all be written by ChatGPT now. I think ChatGPT makes a funny thing to chat with in your spare time, so you can laugh at the hilarity of how inaccurate it's responses are... but I am horrified that people are using AI for serious writing, writing they publish and try to pass off as their own. We live in a society where people people are forgetting how write. Heck I can read and write cursive, calligraphy, italic, short hand, and editor's marks, also edit my books by hand diagraming every sentence, and that... start walking around your neighbourhood and ask anyone under 30 if they sentence diagraming IS, let alone how to do it. So yes, I CAN spell check, and no I don't, for anything but my novels and short story collections, I spell check when it matters... and this is a website, not a printed book... but also, I am just getting so damn fucking fed up with endless AI writing online, so, no, I'm not going to fix errors and typos on my website, and you can bitch about that all you want (yes, I do get your messages, I just don't answer anyone in private) but, honey, maybe instead of bitching over my spelling errors, be thankful is still at least one website on the internet that still being written by a Human now in 2026 when ChatGPT writes over 70% of all posts online.

Looking for my annual NaNoWriMo Prompts and Dares? I've been publishing these every year since 2004! Here's,for my 26th year, a shit ton load of daily writing prompts and writing dares to use for National Novel Writing Month, 2025 edition! The Park Bench Method of Writing The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane: Paperpacks & Hardcover Editions on Amazon: Not sure what the series is about?  Check out  The Quaraun Series Prologue and Faeries vs Elves (In The Quaraun Series) A Pink Necromancer World Lore Post and Worldbuilding MoonQuakes and Disabled Characters for Fantasy Writers and How well do I know Quaraun? - Let's find out! to find out more about the plot and lore of the series. Not sure which story to start with? These here are good places to start, to get a good introduction to the three main characters: Absinthe Slushies: An Ode to Frozen Green Fairy Wine Bone Dice BoomFuzzy's Chowder Dilemma The Cellar's Forgotten Treasure Chaos in The Lighthouse - Shattered Panes, Shattered Minds The Cliff-Side Temple Control or Protection? A Dark and Stormy Night Drying Herbs Excited For The New Baby Five Ways To Save Money in Las Vegas The Golden Dragon Keys Herons in the Dunes If your ass ain’t freezing or your brains ain’t scrambled, you’re ain’t really trying Kiss Me Fuckin' Arse - Just Another Day in the Ice-Laced Ruins of The GodForsaken City Lens and Light Maintenance Macaroni and Cheese: A Creamy Pasta Dish Drenched in Melted Cheese, Often Topped with Breadcrumbs- It's Never That Easy A Map Worth More Than Gold The Morning After a Night of Teaching Wizards To Gather Magic With Cards Necromancer of the Parched Sands in the Desert of Diona Necromancy-A Day in the Life of a Bumbling Necromancer-Again Nightmare Nook Paddlewheel Maintenance The Phooka's Dragon School The Red Hakama Springtime by the River Spirit-Walk Slippers Sticky Rice, Bare Fingers, and Slippery Chopsticks The Sweet and Sour of Lemons The Terror Bird 3 Perspectives on an Apple The Valuable Mystery of the Talking Saloon Door and How We Nearly Got Shot Over Stale Tacos Vendetta over Vittles A Very Important Clump of Grass Wagers and Wiles in the Godforsaken City The Washer Woman & The Fae Weather Forecasting Stones You Never Know What Info You Might Pick Up in the Afterlife aka Quaraun's Near Death Experience (A NDE Fiction) Or if after reading those, you still are looking for more free to read stories, there are over three thousand of them on this site, too many to list here, but here a few dozen to get you started... ...you can just jump in and try reading some of the free to read online stories first before committing to buying the books: Abyssal Addlepated: Stupid and Confused All the roads are gone Alone Ancient Coin Hoard Unearthed Angry Ocean Waves at Sunset The Arrival The Art of Destroying a Human Village for Fun and Profit At the High Priest's Altar Back At The Tavern and Still No Shrimp The Bandits and the Pink Necromancer The Banshee Sisters: Bean-Nighe and Ben-Neeyah In the Swamp of Death The Beacon Room at the Top of the Black Tower Lighthouse The Beauty of a Silk Moth Hatching The Beginning of the End Bellicose: Warlike! Aggressive! Hostile! Beneath a crimson sky, the silk weaver wove pink silk. Beneath Malevolent Stars The Black Sock, Again Blizzard The Boat Fiasco The Book Burning Maggots, a You Can't Spell Hatred Without Red Hats BoomFuzzy's Gingerbread House from Hell The Brownies & The Witch, or Why Faeries Don’t Wear Socks The Bumbling Pursuit of The Pink Necromancer Candied Nightmares The Candle Con in Ember Hollow The Candy Corn Unicorn Captured By The Lich Lord The Cast Iron Frying Pan Cattail Pollen Spaghetti with Wild "Oregano" A Chilly Light Drizzle Becomes Snowfall on the Shore Chocolate Bliss Chocolate in the Neon Shadows Christmas in 40th Century Dystopia Christmas With The Krampus Family The City of Death Clam Digging in the Rain The Clock Ticks Away Clotheslines, Games, and the Village Code Ghosts Comet Fall Snow Day Blitz Conundrum in the Bazaar Corsets, Elves, and Undead Faeries Crabapples in the Rain Cranberry Muffins The Crooked Dice The Crows Are Restless Crullers and Curses at Midnight The Curse of the Liquid Gold The Cursed Mirror Dangerous Tides {A Pink Necromancer Drabble Dozen, featuring Etiole} Dark Damp Basement A Day At Witch Pond & Fleeing To The Forest Deadly Shores of Noodle Beach The Demon Cultists and The Coming of The Darkness The Demonic Music Box Desolate Nostalgia on a Frozen Shoreline The Diamond Forest in the Bio Dome The Disbelief of Humans Discovering A Floating Castle Dismal Day at the Street Market The Doors' Dark Secret - A Wedding In A Zombie Apocalypse Dreams of Purple Pearls The Drunk Moon Elf Echoes of the Glass Forest Echoes of the Unseen An Eclipse in the Faerie Glen An Eclipse Looms Tonight An Eerie Discovery Eerie Symbols in the Snow The Egg That Was Not an Egg The Elf With Crippled Hands Ember Enable The Enchanted Map Encountering ghostly apparitions in the swamp Evil Eggplants Stalking Outside Evil McEvil of The Twirly Moustache Existential Crisis Perspectives - 3 Perspectives on an Existential Crisis Exploring the Swamp's Forgotten River A Fall in the River A Field of Poppies On The Road To Witch Pond 15 Drabbles About Being Transgender The First Flicker of Dawn Fishing in the Rain Five Ways To Save Money in Las Vegas Fizzy and Frigid A Flapdoodle Wizard’s Duel Fleeced for Fizz Fog & Peach Melba Toast After Last Night's Rain Footprints In The Sand Forest Kings and Their Antler Crowns The Fragrant Smoke of Flavoured Herbs Freshly Baked Sugar Cookies The Frilly Nest of Panic A Garden of Pink Chrysanthemums Get your hands off my dress! GhoulSpawn & The Cultists GhoulSpawn Said The Moon Don’t Laugh GhoulSpawn's Toasted Marshmallow Magic A Glass of Fresh Milk Gloom Blob of Doom: The Dreadful Dripping of the Doom Blob of Gloom Glumpish, Grumpy, Sullen, Gloomy Golden Field, Pink Glories The Golden Mask The Graveyard That Ate the Living The Great UnSeelie Court Swindlers He Always Comes Back Heirloom Tomatoes Help! He's trying to feed me! The Herd Approaches The Howl on Silent Moor How to Create a Literary Empire with Just Your Bum Poems How To Kill a Lich How to Hijack a Human Supply Train Without Getting Shot How to Overthrow an Entire Settlement Without So Much as Lifting a Finger I Need To Feel Safe Ignoramus — An Utterly Ignorant Crowd of Humans IkuTursu's Cursed Depths of the Swamp Where Pine Boughs Whisper Incandescent Shadows Over Driftwood Bay The Infected Survivor Inner Fortitude Insidious Love Invigorating Cool Air Iron Hooves and Burning Roads, Krampus on Wheels The Ivory Tower of Greed The Jar of Pickled Toes Jibber Jabber Ramblings by the Fire The Jolly Red Lich King Journey Through the Zombie-Infested Swamp on the Blue Monkey Judgement An Ode To The Lunatics Preaching The Rapture of September'25 Kelim and The Necromancer: Finding Finderu Kelim Meets Quaraun The Insane Lanterns Over the Faerie Glen Leaving Your Bed Messy Isn't Exactly the Apocalypse The Leprechaun of The Deep North A Lich's Lament For a Mortal Lover Growing Old A Lich's Reflections On Escaping The Swamp of Death The Lich's True Form Revealed The Lighthouse’s Glass-Eyed Horror The Lighthouse Keeper The Lighthouse That Leapt, Space Dock 13's First Jump Through Space The Long Road The Loot Tree Lord of the Hive Lost In The Forest of No Return-Trying To Find Directions The Lost Library and The Snowglobe The Lotus' Silent Prayer on the Sandy Shoreline Lover's Triangle Make tea and go for a rainy forest walk Maple Cotton Candy Served as a Topping on Vanilla Ice Cream A Market Day Disaster Market Day Weekend - Three Days In The Life of The Pink Necromancer Marsh Serenity Reflection Mayonnaise Meeting Mallac Melt, Ya Safe With Me The MerMan's Wrath Milkweed Meadow Mint, Madness, and Motor Parts The Mischief of the Purple Unicorn Misplaced Utensils and the Cascade of Confusion Monsters & Mayhem: How Black Tower Became Pink (8+ Parts) The Moon and The Drowned The Moon Goddess Laughs From The Rooftops The Moon That Hungers The Moon and The Mirror Morning Sickness at The Shattered Stein (TW: MPreg Yaoi) A Mysterious Door No Goldfish, Today? No Place for Birth The Noodle of Power Not Little Red Riding Hood Obsessive Love-Dangerous Love An Ode to My Shattered Sanity Ominous One River In Three Perspectives Open Grave An Ordinary Day A Path of Twisted Trees A Peaceful Night on the Tundra The Peaceful Shores of Noodle Beach Phantom Tides Pickling Perfection Pickles, Panic, & Permafrost The Picnic Pink Marabou Trimmed Rainbow Leg Warmers, a Purple Feathered Black Leather Codpiece, and an Emerald Green Overly Fluffy Scarf The Pink Necromancer's Deceitful Carpet Weave Pink Sheep, Cheesy Burritos, and The Grim Reality of Zombies Pliable Clay on the Potter's Wheel Pocket Lich Unleashed: Quaraun Murders Finderu Preparations for the Street Market of the GodForsaken City Psychotic Dead Things Quaraun's Beauty Makeovers Quaraun's Candle Business Quaraun's Irritable Day Quaraun and The Wandering Turtle City Quarreling Over the Last Slice of Pizza A Quiet Day on The Blue Monkey The Quiet Evening in the Pink Silk Tent A Quiet Evening In The Rain A Quiet Night on The River A Quiet Place To Sweep A Quiet, Relaxing Foot Rub The Rain-Drenched Alley Raining Cats & Dogs Readers vs Readers, What Really Makes a Reader, a Reader? Remove! The Return of ZooLock The River Boat Man-Woman The Sacred Pink Secret (TW: Mpreg Yaoi) Safety and Emergency System Activated. Please Being Calm Santa's Floating Dead Body Santa's Letter To Satan The Screaming Contest The Seagull Sea Slugs and Clam Chowder Bread Bowls Secret Meeting Hidden Behind Closed Doors Shadows on the Clam Flats Shipyard at Dusk The Silence of the Unseen Silks in the Snow The Singing Crabgrass Crabs — A Green Fairy Wine Tale A Sinister-Looking Stone Well Six Days Earlier The Snake's Prophecy of Doom Upon The Fractured Moon A Solitary Black Sock Spinning Dreams in Silk The Soul Eater Spacious Space Spooky Scary Skeletons - A Graveyard Waltz Stillness in the Garden's Chaos Stone Cakes for the Road Survival Preppers Of The Zombie Apocalypse The Swamp of Death The Tavern in the Faraway Town The Temple City of The Green Goddess, Where Every Street Has a Name The Terrifying Cliffs of Noodle Beach, featuring Etiole That Afternoon When Quaraun Got Stuck In a Crab Trap That Big Bad Darkness in His Heart A Threatening Letter Too Busy Cooking Lemon Tarts Toobe's Well-Prompted Apocalypse (A ChatBot Plans Global Domination) The Trade Caravan A Tumble In The River The Vacuous Tavern Fool Waiter, There's A Head In My Soup Wandering Merchant: The Trader’s Cryptic Goods (Part 2 of ShipYard At Dusk) What I Wish I Knew Before Not Becoming an Astrophysicist When a Government Tries to Cover Its Crimes Why the Sea is Salt A Winter Wizard Wishing For Lobster Rolls-Never Make Wishes In The Presence of Wizards WORMS! Wrath of the Sacred Pink JellyFish Yelling at the Snowstorm You've Only Known Our World Through The Eyes of a Madman You trust that nonsense over a map? Zombies Are Not the Worst Thing Here {TW: Love fucking wins} Zwodder: A Drowsy Stupid State of Mind Hmmm... soooo... I was making the above list to ALL the links to EVERY Quaraun story published on my website here, and adding it into the footer of my site, here as you can see, which loads on every page, and then I realized... wait... there are over two thousand Pink Necromancer stories up free to read on my website, I can't put two thousand links on every single page! Whoops! LOL! So, now I'm putting list to ALL the links to EVERY Quaraun story published on my website here on this page instead and just link that page to the footer instead. But also I'll just leave some of the links in the footer, as you can see above. FacebookXPinterestTumblrRedditWhatsApp ShareFacebookXPinterestTumblrRedditWhatsApp The Park Bench Method of Writing

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If anyone contacts you saying 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, is for sale, know that they are lying to you... it is my land, and it has been in my family since 1531... and the ONLY person whom has EVER gone around saying it is for sale, is a woman who the FBI believes to be the same woman who murdered my son.

My son is buried here, and the FBI believes she is trying to buy my land in order to destroy his grave and destroy evidence of his murder.

Since my son's murder November 14, 2013, every year dozens of real estate agent show up all with a story of a female developer who is offering them MILLIONS of dollars for my lot of land that is only 1/4 of an acre and is not big enough to develop.

When shown police sketches of my son's murderer, the real estate agents say "Yes, that's the woman who hired me to buy 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine", but then the woman disappears and the real estate agents never hear from her again... all contact information she gave them turns out to be fake.

The woman who murdered my son, is DESPERATELY trying to buy 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine... this is the woman to watch out for... and this is what she did:

Looking to find out more about my son's murder, that information is on these pages:

• How did the FBI get involved?

• Never Forget my son was murdered

• Do you know who this woman is? And no 146 Portland Ave is not for sale.

• Thoughts on Reborn Therapy Dolls After My Son's Murder

Answering the questions:
Can you give me links to the news reports of your son's murder? 
and
Why can't I find any news reports about this?

Maine has well over a thousand murder cases that have never been in the news.

I found this out after my son was murdered November 2013, and a year later I found out it had never been in the news, even though I was hounded for weeks by news people. I went to each of the over a dozen TV stations and newspapers whom had showed up at the hospital and asked why they had never published any report after all the trouble they had gone through to (in some cases illegally) het into the hospital to interview me.

in every case they said some version of "well, it just wasn't news worthy, there was nothing we could use to get views". Really? These were big news stations, channel 13, 6, 8, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily...

What exactly was it they claimed was "not news worthy"?

I'll tell you.

On November 14, 2013, my son was murdered. At Southern Maine Community College in the parking lot of The Buglight Art Studio beside the Spring Point Lighthouse.

I was 8 months pregnant, leaving my college classroom, and just getting into my car, when 3 strangers, a man and two women, armed with golf clubs leapt out from behind my car screaming "kill or be killed, kill the transvestite freaks, kill them all before they kill us! look at that thing! That is Ken's son, look at how it's dressed! kill the transvestite freaks! kill or be killed"... while the bald man and the red haired woman chanted this over and over, the blonde woman, lunged with the golf club.

She severed my spine, I am now a quadriplegic, and been paralyzed arms and legs, and in a wheelchair for 13 years now. She broke my hips, my knees, my legs, ruptured most of my discs, and shattered three of my vertebrae so bad that the shards of bone acted like glass and embedded themselves into my spinal column nerve bundle.

The attack also triggered labour.

My son was born in that parking lot, and he lived only a couple of minutes, before the deranged blonde woman, beat his head in and smashed his brains out, with the same golfclub she had just used to sever my spine and leave me crippled for the rest of my life.

Realizing that I was not transgender, and they'd just murdered a baby, the man grabbed the 2 women and forcibly dragged them away to a 4 door white pickup truck, and they left me there to die.

The FBI told me later, that a few weeks before this attack, and transwoman, had murdered a cis woman, in a parking lot, abou 20 miles away from where I was attacked. The FBI, believes that my attackers, had somehow found out I wrote transgender fiction, connecting my real name to my penname, (my father's name is in fact "Ken", and I do have a brother) and believed that I wrote transgender fiction, because I was myself transgender, even though I'm not transgender. The FBI, believes the attackers, thought I was my brother, pretending to be a woman.

The FBI investigation, into my son's murder, has dragged on for 13 years, and still now in 2026, continues on, with the FBI, still not having yet identified my attackers, and only guessing at what their motive was.

Oh yeah, and I've been quadriplegic for 13 years.

oh yeah one more thing, same trio, they also found out where i lived in Old Orchard Beach and drove a backhoe over my house as well.

146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach, Maine... July 4, 2013 vs August 8, 2013

I have been homeless and quadriplegic for 13 years, and right now it's just a few weeks away from both my son's 14th birthday and the 14th anniversary of the day he was murdered, both of which happened the same day.

Explain to me what about any of that is "not newsworthy"?

I did find out WHY it was deemed not newsworthy. "it would negatively impact tourism" was their reason. The College at Fort Prebble is a tourist destination. The lighthouse at the college is a tourist destination. My house on Portland ave is situated on the primary road to the beach that is a tourist destination.

The news reporters explained to me that, they risked losing their jobs if they publicised "negative news" occurring in these sorts of tourist destination spots.

My son's murder wasn't in the news, because it might cause tourists to stop visiting that lighthouse. That was the reason the reporters gave me.

How often are there things not being reported on just so businesses don't lose tourist money?

How often does this happen? A lot, I've since found out. In trying to find other mothers of murdered children to interact with... I found five others JUST in Old Orchard Beach, whom the murders were not in the news, and all of them happened after my son's murder. I found 2 such mothers in Scarbourogh, their children's murders not in the news. I found over a dozen more in the Bar Harbore area, also all not in the news.

It's a very disturbing trend here in Maine, one that I never would have found out about had my own son not been murdered.

One thing's very clear: in Maine you can get away with murdering a child, if you do it in a big tourist location, because news stations REFUSE to report any crime occurring in tourist locations.

Fuck torists.

I don't give a shit about your precious tourist money.

My son was murdered and I want his killer found... and I am VERY displeased with the deplorable way news stations try to bury child murders in Maine, just to appease tourist funded businesses.

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