At 05:42 PM 5/29/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>> > But that website is indeed dangerous for the likes of us!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > Veloci--good for Jack!--raptor
>> 
>> Indeed :)
>> Are we sure it's the same Jack?

I was pretty sure when the blurb mentioned the part about the index to
Shakespearean quotations organized by play.  That just sounded like Jack!


>we are....
>=g=
>
>In fact, just now that Jack posted over in writing:
>
>====
>From: Jack Lynch 
>To: writing2{at}tantech.com
>Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: Re: [writing2] Hello Everyone!
>Message-ID:
>
>
>pddb{at}demesne.com writes:
>
>    What publishers will give you is their boilerplate contract.
>    This contains clauses that they will never enforce even if
>    you sign it as is, because the clauses do not apply to the
>    kind of writing you do.
>
>When I published my trade-press abridgment of Johnson's
>_Dictionary_ last year, the contract said that I gave the
>publisher the movie rights.
>
>Drat! -- and I had plans of optioning it to Miramax, with Brad
>Pitt as the noun substantive and a cameo by Meryl Streep as the
>letter N.  I thought about calling it a deal-breaker.

ROFL!!

>(Happy news: though it's been available only through mail order
>so far, in September a retail edition will be released in a
>co-publishing deal with Walker Books.  Walker is best known for
>Dava Sobel's _Longitude_; they've also done _Brunelleschi's
>Dome_, _The Victorian Internet_, _A Basque History of the World_,
>&c.)

Yup, I am going to have to buy the book.  Wonder if he'd autograph it for me?

Veloci--very tempting, that book--raptor
 

--- Rachel's Little NET2FIDO Gate v 0.9.9.8 Alpha