Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 25 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 2:53 pm: | |
I see that WDIV's Paula Tutman wrote a book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =xO7znEhwCqs It is interesting that WDIV took so much time in their newscast to promote her book. Tutman's own website shills the book as one would expect. http://paulaltutman.com I'll run right over to the River Walk to get my autograph! (Message edited by Shiva on June 22, 2008) |
Gplimpton Member Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 192 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 5:19 pm: | |
You'd be the only one. |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 26 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 11:39 pm: | |
What an ego she has! |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 28 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 9:46 am: | |
What, no literary critics out there? |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 6713 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 9:53 am: | |
She is, at least I think, the worst of the worst. she loves to hear herself talk and is so amused by herself, it ruins every interview she does |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 29 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 10:15 am: | |
Agreed |
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak
Post Number: 22 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 8:48 am: | |
"They got Ziggy!" Just skimmed passages from what is evidently a self-published book by Paula. At this moment I am ashamed to call myself an author. |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 33 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 9:06 am: | |
They got Ziggy, indeed! At least Ziggy didn't have to suffer throughout the rest of Tutman's horrific prose. We should all be as fortunate as Ziggy when it comes to watching the news whenever Tutman is on. (Message edited by Shiva on June 24, 2008) |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 6:02 pm: | |
Word gets around! |
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak
Post Number: 23 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 6:26 pm: | |
I would have never bet in a thousand years that my first cover blurb would be for Paula Tutman. |
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn
Post Number: 327 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 12:26 pm: | |
I wonder if my book will get as much air time when it comes out! Can’t help wondering if this is a vanity press/self-published type of thing... doesn’t look like the book is available, until you order it. Maybe the publishing company’s waiting til someone orders one to print one. http://www.amazon.com/Deadline -Paula-L-Tutman/dp/0981584551/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid =1214410446&sr=1-1 Richard, I'm curious... you wrote Across Three Centuries, right? |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 771 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 12:31 pm: | |
The book sounds interesting. I think I'll read it. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2567 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 12:36 pm: | |
Out of stock! Must be an item in high demand. |
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak
Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 1:20 pm: | |
Evelyn...guilty. A good looking book in terms of illustrations and design, but too many errors to call it one of my better efforts. This is what happens when you write a book in a rush (evenings and weekends) while working a fulltime staff job (and when the publisher doesn't hire a good copy editor). Oh well, there has never been a book published that didn't have some errors of fact, a dropped line, or typos in it. As for Paula Tutman's book, it's obviously self-published. Whatever print shop she employs is her "publisher." The extremely low print runs of print-on-demand (POD) are the best way for Tutman to keep her basement and garage from overflowing with boxes of straight-to-the-remainder-tabl e copies. I |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 778 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 3:05 pm: | |
How come people disparage vanity publishers? Walt Whitman only got published because he owned a press. And many people like his writing. He was an old school vanity publisher. Hell, many known authors probably were. |
Pffft Member Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1550 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 3:21 pm: | |
Oh please...comparing a guy who loved literature and was publishing on his own press in the 19th century with this plethora of trashy print for profit companies...come on. There's a huge difference. People pay to be published on vanity publishers, then don't understand why it isn't a ticket to glory. It's because there's no quality control and such books are a dime a dozen. |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 35 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 3:21 pm: | |
quote:Out of stock! Must be an item in high demand. Amazon.com Sales Rank: #164,121 |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 780 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 3:23 pm: | |
Hey Richard Bak, I looked at your list of books on Amazon ... did you really work with Caleb Carr? That's impressive. The Alienist is an excellent book. |
Rjk Member Username: Rjk
Post Number: 1134 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 3:32 pm: | |
With all the important news stories the local news covers I'm surprised they were able to find three minutes to let one of their employees use the news for free advertising. What next, reporters using the news to push their garage sale and their kids school bake sale? |
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak
Post Number: 26 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 5:50 pm: | |
I don't think self-publishing is inherently bad. There will always be informative monographs and quirky little titles that no mainstream house, including university publishers (whose original mission was to publish such books), will touch. I wouldn't put Tutman's Great American Novel in that category. |
Duke_sims Member Username: Duke_sims
Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 8:35 pm: | |
Tutman is an idiot. I once heard her ask a grieving mother whose daughter had just been murdered, "how do you feel?" She also pronounces the word "again" to rhyme with "pain" as if it makes her seem smart. It doesn't. But on a positive note: Mr. Bak, I'm a big fan of your books; they're among my all-time faves, and hold a prominent place on my bookshelf. |
Ggores Member Username: Ggores
Post Number: 145 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 9:14 am: | |
Heh heh, ya'll kinda got me chucklin' on this one. So far as speculating as to the extent that Ms. Tutman has grasp and command of the English language in the FIRST place... well, simply speculating about it should keep me besmirkedley amused throughout the work day today. Yes, I said besmirked. It's a word, trust me. |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2421 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:37 pm: | |
I guess I will just wait for the movie. |
Shiva Member Username: Shiva
Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 10:33 am: | |
That would be a ghastly movie indeed. Unless Ms. Tutman was playing the part of Ziggy! |