->      Okay, so say you've got a wild hair to write a book/novel/
->    short story collection. YOU think they're good, and so do the
All these questions and MORE are bandied about on a daily basis on the
Fido WRITING echo.  Get your SysOp to hook you up to it and there are
people of all ages, experience ranges, and sexual inclinatons there just
panting to answer everythn you ever wanted to know.  I  even show up
there on occasion.  (When I  can get my stupiid keybboard to work rght.)
URK!  Dratted thing either makes IIIIII's in bunches or won't make any
at all!
->     He did get a nice advance tho. Do you have to give the advance
->     back if the book doesn't sell a certain amount of copies?
Not usually, but they don't buy any more books from you.......  It's a
crapshoot at best.
->       Aw, those are sweet. Are they good pets, or more like canaries
->     and finches... pretty to look at and listen to?
Well, mine's pretty new, but he's awful sweet and learniong to enjoy
being petted.  I enjoy his cooing quite a lot, but sometimes it gets to
be a bit much......  At least he's not as noisy as a McCaw!  (Which I
don't doubt at all someone might cram into a dumpster!)  
 ^..^
Ooops no, I don't use Internet at all.
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