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From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:50:57 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 11:33:54 -0400
Subject: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 01:54:49 -0500
To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
From: John Velez <jvif@spacelab.net>
Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

>From: c549597@showme.missouri.edu [Barbara Becker]
>Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 11:10:45 -0500
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

>> From: clark@canby.mn.frontiercomm.net [Jerome Clark]
>> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:25:19 PDT
>> To: updates@globalserve.net
>> Subject: RE: UFO UpDate: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

>> > From: HONEYBE100@aol.com
>> > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 04:40:42 -0400 (EDT)
>> > To: updates@globalserve.net
>> > Subject: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

>> > >Date: Wed.27 Aug.1997 11:15:09 -0700
>> > >From: Scott Hale <shale@megalinx.net>
>> > >To: UFO UpDatess <updates@globalserve.net>
>> > >Subject: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

>> > Hello everyone!

>> > Scott Hale wrote:

>> > >List,

>> > >The recent posts regarding Linda Cortile have compelled me to
>> > >share my opinion on this issue.

(enormous snip)


Showme writes,

>Anonymity on a sighting report is not a big deal.  But anonymity  in a
>case where there is financial gain IS a big deal.

>BB

>Hi Barbara,

>After reading your comment I suddenly realized how many of my friends and
>aquaintances are writers. Do you know many writers Barbara? There isn't a
>sorrier lot of hooligans (in terms of financial renumeration) in all the
>world.

<snip>

>Every writer I know is always crying the blues. Where is "all this money"
>you keep talking about. I have yet to see any evidence of it among the
>working writers I'm exposed to. Most of the guys I know would consider it
>a "good deal" if they broke even on a project! You'll probably hear from
>some of them.

>"Show me the money!" <G>

>In fact,...

>I believe that in NY if you put down on a welfare application that your
>occupation is 'writer' it automatically qualifies you for double food
>stamps, ciggie $ and other really neat extended benefits! I guess thats
>why so many of them migrate here. <VBG>

>John Velez:)


Hi John,

Right on!  Everyone always thinks that writers make big bucks.  It just
ain't so.  I've written more than a dozen books, and some of them have
become best sellers in my field (photography),  but I'm very far from
rich.  If I didn't have a regular income from magazine editing and
photography, I'd be on food stamps!  The vast majority of writers are
not like Norman Mailer, Steven King, and that ilk.  There are a few
super stars who make millions, and then there's all the rest of us who
eke out a living somehow and write because we love doing it.

Publishers are well known for "creative bookkeeping".  I recently got a
royalty statement from one publisher and noticed that they had lowered
the percentage they paid me below what is in the contract.  Well, they
explained, they had to give a special deal on the book to one distributor
before that distributor would take the book.  Was I consulted?  No.
Can they do this legally? No.  But what can I do???   I've got two books
which are best sellers in Germany, but I have not gotten a penny in
royalties because of a dispute between the original publisher and the
German one!

I hope everyone who thinks that writers are rich becomes one!!

Bob