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Sunday, June 18, 2006 "When are you going to write a real book?" Agent incognito, Miss Snark, provides some humdinger responses to above rude question. It seems one of her readers wrote in asking how to respond to people who have the nerve to summarily dismiss one's work as crap and really expect you to answer them. Personally, I like Nos. 1, 6, 9 and 10. 1. I'd love to write literary fiction but my agent flat out refuses to stop making money on my work. 2. It's a good thing you are handsome, because your manners are butt ugly 3. I leave the pretentious naval gazing to people better trained for the job. 4. I'm purposely avoiding writing anything that will be of interest to you. 5. How kind of you to show an interest in my career. Are you asking because you need a loan? 6. I'm reserving the great novel for when I need to lower my taxable income. 7. Literary fiction tends to be attractive to people I don't much care to be around. 8. I had to sign a non-compete when I stopped being Thomas Pynchon's ghostwriter. He's very fussy about those things 9. Yanno, that's exactly what someone asked Stephen King three days before he received the National Book Award for outstanding contribution to American letters. 10. Right about the time you get your head out of your analogous. and...culled from the comment tail, a NEW and wonderful addition: 11. Did you drop out of charm school or were you just asked to leave quietly?
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