I’ve finished my novel!
It’s called Dates Worse Than Fate. The Premise: terrible dates combined with terrible moments in human history! Would you like to read it? I would also like you to read it. But that requires a literary agent or publisher. Are you one of these people/entities? If so, well, confession: I love you. Please contact me! My info is on this page. I’ve only met one literary agent once. It was five years ago after I did a reading on the Lower East Side. She gave me her card, which I subsequently lost. Are you that particular literary agent? Well, confession: I love you– no, seriously, you were very beautiful!
Are you not a literary agent/publisher? Yeah, me either! But you can still help! I created a Facebook group in the hope that if many people joined it, the published book would spontaneously materialize from our collective desire. Please join it here! If you don’t have Facebook, then you’re a stronger person than I will ever be– just comment below this post if you would like to see the book in print!
Thank you, by the way, to all the posters in the comments sections who have said kind and encouraging things about my work. And also thank you to all the posters who have just said, like, really insane things that are sort of creepy in that way that only the internet is creepy. Confession: I love you most of all.
UPDATE (4/20/11): I’ve created a site for the book where you can read excerpts!
Tags: aliens becoming teachers, Dates Worse Than Fate, novel, novelty, teachers becoming aliens
Dale
Why did you steal the cover from my teacher is an alien?
http://www.google.com/images?q=my+teacher+is+an+alien&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=642
Steal?? *sniff* It was an homage to a classic! Plus, my book deals with the same themes and I hope to sell it via bookmobile– but of course one of my own design where the books drive the car.
The teacher’s mask looks like Ronald Reagan. Is your book about Ronald Reagan? I miss Ronald Reagan. He knew how to treat a woman. Are you suggesting Ronald Reagan was an alien? Sounds like a rad book, Dale.
I’ve been to bookstores and libraries. I’ve seen the books there. Somebody’s publishing these books. They must need new books at some point…right?
I would read this so hard, the book would implode due to my sheer reading-ness!
yes, this MUST be published! Crossing fingers for you (and us)
Hi! I’m one of those lonesome and increasingly disconnected souls who don’t ‘book.
I would very much like to read your novel.
L.
I WANT YOU(R BOOK)!
Bruce Coville’s the man. This book better be a near-duplicate of the original cover-bearing piece, but with encouragement written in the margins.
Kindle! Kindle, I say! The days of finding a literary agent and publisher are over. You could be selling your book on Kindle by this time Monday.
Go to http://kdp.amazon.com and publish with great speed! And get David to make you a nice cover image so people will say “ZOMG! The cover is by the Braid artist! I must buy this book!”
Why has this not been done! Kindle! or iBooks or, for the love of god, both! Self-publish so I can self-buy!
Haha! Thanks, Beggs! Actually, I sold the book to a publisher. Unfortunately that means it’s going to be a while until it comes out! I feel bad about this and I’m working on creating some new work in the interim that will be more readily accessible. In the immediate short term, I’ll be posting a new comic in the next few days. There’s a post about the Dates Worse Than Fate publication here on my new blog: http://daleberan.tumblr.com/post/28001868173/dates-worse-than-fate-picked-up
I support your book!
I’M VERY HIGH (IN THE SKY) AND YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL THE MONEY
I would very, very much like to see your book published! Sometimes I wish I was very, very rich, if only so I could give all my money to all the artists and singers and writers that I love so very, very much.
FIsh don’t like your book!
Do you see why?
I’m not a literary agent, but I am an artist’s marketing consultant. If you’re still interested in getting this book published, and you haven’t gotten the funding you were hoping for yet, you might check out http://marketingforhippies.com/five-simple-steps-to-getting-new-clients/ (not my site, but excellent); I love your work and would love to see it widely published, so if you’d like to talk with me about where you’re at right now, I’d love to have that conversation.
Cheers
Ryan Wiley