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« on: 2008-03-03, 22:03:04 »

Well, I figured we could use an off-topic area.

So as a first post here.... I'm now an officially published author with 6 books out, as of the end of last week. :)

http://stores.lulu.com/necrobones

Hah... "author"... and "6 books"... crazy. :)
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Re: Published author
« Reply #1 on: 2008-03-04, 05:43:19 »
You put me to shame, Ed!
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Re: Published author
« Reply #2 on: 2008-03-04, 08:05:53 »
lol,
I love the first one! Absolutely brilliant! OMG that is fantastically ironic! I may
have to purchase that one just for a coffee table book!  ;D
"Chivalry our Strength, Brotherhood our sword"
Vert, on a Chief wavy Argent a Rose Sable,
a Gryphon Segreant Or

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Re: Published author
« Reply #3 on: 2008-03-04, 16:03:06 »
I'll be happy to sign copies! lol!

Nah, I'm not putting you to shame, I spent about a half hour on each one of those, and about an hour writing the Markov Chain program I used to generate those literary abominations. :)  It took longer to format the pages, create the covers, etc, than to create the content. The program I wrote would take only a few seconds to generate a book. Hardly an accomplishment!

The sad thing is that I haven't even read very much of what went into those random books. I have no idea what they contain. :)

I just dropped the prices on them a little. It's as cheap as I can make them and still have them potentially available through other online retailers (and only make $0.20-$0.30 on those copies). I suppose I can always make revised editions restricted to lulu, though.


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Re: Published author
« Reply #4 on: 2008-03-04, 17:04:30 »

I decided to flip through the Markov Shakespeare text a little more..

Oh, I love markov chains... a few pages in, it generated this:  "Exeunt all the world this ass!"   :)
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Re: Published author
« Reply #5 on: 2008-03-04, 17:45:22 »
Wonderful! What fun!  <chuckling>

Edited to add:  Just noticed you added the caption under your picture!
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« Reply #6 on: 2008-03-04, 21:36:41 »
Just noticed you added the caption under your picture!

I couldn't help it. I had to... for some reason that line is making my laugh hysterically.
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Re: Published author
« Reply #7 on: 2008-03-10, 01:01:18 »

BTW, I've created an online version of my markov chains program that will let you generate a chapter of random text based on the classic works I used for the books. Check it out here:

http://necrobones.com/cgi-bin/markov/markov.cgi
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Re: Published author
« Reply #8 on: 2008-03-10, 01:11:13 »
I liked this line from "Dickens":

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'You'll excuse me asking for more, if you please, miss," returned Charley, whose grammatical education was advancing, but not of the whole better: 'Well!'

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« Reply #9 on: 2008-03-11, 19:57:33 »

Hehe, yeah, I love the stuff it generates.

Well, I added hardcover versions of all of them in there too. I set the profit margin lower on them so they wouldn't be horribly overpriced for what they are. :)
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Re: Published author
« Reply #10 on: 2008-03-14, 14:02:10 »
Just added Jules Verne and HG Wells in paperback and hardcover, and added them to the online program as well. :)


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