AWP Conference 2012

[Avonne Writer]

Avonne, I think Rich, the retired cop, has been too busy sleuthing down WEEDS (if y'get my drift) to even comment on this.

We've had several of them lately. Amazing how the lil' suckers can so easily slip through the system.

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Like bamboo. You pluck one, ten grow in its place.

So, from now on, Rich is the retired cop. However....Rich sounds too young to be retired.

Am I right? huh? (I'm gonna put him in his 30s...maybe that's just the age I prefer. Oops, did I actually write that. My bad!)

[Kitty Foyle]

Thanks for your writeup, Detective Rich.

Avonne, yes, he does sound too young to be retired, but he appears to have super sleuthing abilities. So maybe we could call him Gumshoe Rich. Or....Dick Rich. Nah, there's obviously a reason Rich wants to be called Rich and not Dick.

Remember Dick Tracy? Dick was a slang expression for "detective," as you may know.

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[Jena Grace]

I picture him with a trench coat and a cigarette. An intense, disheveled young Columbo.

Gd. I said "cigarette..."

[Avonne Writer]

I picture him with a trench coat and a cigarette. An intense, disheveled young Columbo.

Gd. I said "cigarette..."

Or a big white Cockatoo.

Kitty- I don't know, some guys might want to be known as Dick Rich- no? Or, hey, Rich Dick. (Kitty, I'm laughing so hard I'm crying out yesterdays leftover mascara. Dang, I hate when that happens. Got one eye completely shut, and the utha is leaking tears everywhere.)

Rich- sorry we're pokin fun at you, your job, and your um you know what. Remember, we're laughing with you. BTW, welcome aboard, You're not a sock puppet, are you? You're not "She who shall not be named" incarnate, or stephen, or the admin. dude with the startrek avatar? Good, I thought not.

[Joe Zeff]

Would you care to guess my age judging only from how I post here, Avonne?

[Joe Zeff]

It sounds like it'd be interesting to be there, Rich, if I were interested mostly in literary fiction, but I'm not. Not only don't I know any of the featured writers personally[1], I don't recognize any of their names. That's not a put-down, BTW, just evidence that whatever they write isn't what I'm interested in reading.

[1]Yes, I do know a number of SF/Fantasy authors[2] personally, and I've named them in the past. I'm not interested, right now, in name dropping but if you'd like a partial list, Rich, PM me.
[2]I'm using their own definition: an author is somebody who earns their living from their writing.

[Gary Kessler]

Guess I could never be an author, then. I earn enough from my annuity, investment income, and my editorial services to "earn my living"--a couple of times over. Income from writing books is over and above that. I guess it doesn't matter how much that is. I can never call myself an author. *sob*

(I think anyone who earns any profit from what they write can call themselves "author"--and I'm sure that all who aren't snobby do just that.)

[Jena Grace]

I don't earn my living from writing but I do get paid, and I consider myself an author. So does my publisher and the people who buy my books.

[C Bets]

and I consider myself an author.

And a darn good one, at that! I love your books, Jena!!

[Joe Zeff]

Gary, I'm not the one who defined the word that way, I'm just quoting friends of mine who do qualify by that definition. I suspect, however, that they'd count your editorial services as part of "earning your living from your writing."

And, how do you classify somebody like Larry Niven? He certainly earns enough from his writing to live on, but he was already a millionaire before he started.