I literally spit beverages out of my mouth when Nathalie Grey sent me the most awesome link ever.
Are you ready? Are you sitting down?
Mrs. Giggles has opened her own ePub!
Get ready, all you eBook junkies out there: Trixy Lion Publishing has opened its loving, familial arms to anyone looking for a publishing home. [UPDATED to add: Mrs. Giggles’ awesome publishing house at Geocities keeps exceeding its bandwidth – but that only means its super popular, right? Check out the mirror and make sure to get your submissions ready!]
I personally will never say anything cranky or mean about Trixy Lion, as it says in their “Marketing PLnas:” we will also protect u from mean ppl out there on blogs and message boards. if u let us know who is badmouthing u, we will gather ur friends and com eto ur rescue.
How can you not love an ePub whose written public communications read like LOLCats on a meth bender? I’m sold!
It could only get better *if* someone does actually send a submission.
It would also be unbearably sad, but that would come after the laughter.
Damn. It’s already exceed its bandwidth limits, so I’ll have to be content with your excerpt.
Oh god. Security word, I kid you not, is justice84.
Aw, crap! And on a holiday weekend too?
OMG OMG OMFG I got onto the site. *tears running down face*
Okay, it’s bandwidth is exceeded – so they don’t even have enough for a $2.99 a month free site from yahoo.com? -shoot, yahoo’s ‘get your own domain’ geocities plan is under $10 :/
{haha} my bot-word is evidence84
Bummer. The site won’t load for me. 🙁
BUMMER. When it’s back up I’ll take screenshots – but hey! Exceeded their bandwidth?! That means they’re – sorry, “there” – really popular!
at first i couldnt get on, but i tried again right away…and woo boy, maybe i shouldnt have tried so hard…when i have to re-read a line 3 times over, its gotta be bad…c’mon, that has to be a joke site or something cause that is just so juvenile…horrible, horrible
what a piece of shit..and just bad enough to piss me off
It can’t be professional ‘cos it has no music!
I think I’m in love with Mrs Giggles. That was very, very funny
Priceless. Mrs. G is better—and cheaper—than therapy.
You know eventually be a submission, I just hope it is posted 😉 Hell, I might send one for my upcoming work ‘A Highlander and his Were-Pig: a gay, inspy, bondage romance’
“…WITHOUT INTERFRERING FROM GRAMAR NAZIS AND RUDE ENGLISH TEACHERS…”
I know where I’m sending my next manuscript! Woo woo!
People are complaining about bandwidth and I’m sure it’ll get worse, so I’ll just excerpt the “About Us” page, although it’s necessarily removed from its multi-hued glory:
Err, is it bad that I’d actually read a book with a vamipire CIA agent?
And when I say “excerpt”, I mean “copy the whole damned page”.
“now accepting submissives”
No ones taking my subs, no one!!
Genius, pure genius.
I howled when I read this! It’s one of the best parody sites I’ve seen in a long time. 🙂
Ooh, ooh, ooh, new SB contest! Submissives for Triskie (Triski?) Lion. Come on, come on you guys, it’d be great.
After watching South Park, I had the greatest idea for a man-bear-pig novel. Now I know where to go with it.
Take me! Mememememe!
People are complaining about bandwidth and I’m sure it’ll get worse, so I’ll just excerpt the “About Us†page,
TRISKY LOINS!!
Iz ded now, thnx.
The ‘submissives’ would be worth the price of admission. Donate to the cause!
Bwahahahaha. This ppl very laughtering.
Ms. Giggles moved the site to one with more bandwidth – http://www.mrsgiggles.com/ebooks/tl/index.html
Damn…I knew I should have shopped around a little more before signing my latest contract… (slaps forehead)
Thanks, Jenyfer. I can know see the site in all its horrid glory, and am trying not to laugh because I’d only have to explain why to everyone else in the house…
All you meanies picking on my publisher are just JEALOUS of the close family-like friendships we’s got at Trisky Lion and you don’t understand how much they’ve supproted me and Kristi Theresa is a wonderful person who works relly hard for her awthurs and maybe she’s got some personal problems but I’m loyal and anyone who isn’t loyal is a HATING NAZI BITCH>
This site is all about TRASHY BITCHES!!1! Haters!
ROTFLMAO, I clicked the “read an excerpt” thing for the gun-totin’ bad boys (or whatever it is) and got this page:
What are you doing?
The whole Trixy Lion Publishing thing is a parody of a terrible electronic publisher. Please don’t tell me you seriously considered buying from or submitting something to us!
Too bad she didn’t put up an excerpt—it could only have added to the deliciousness of the whole thing!
THEY STOLE MY VAMPIRE CIA AGENT PLOT!!! DAMMIT!!!
I’ll get them for stealing my plot! And their little LOLcats too!
P.S. Haven’t had caffeine or medication yet this morn…maybe it shows…nahhh.
I have a friend who immediately submitted to TL—though I tried to caution her. She reports:
Teh Trisky Loins famely is the best evah! They have boght my book and i only hadt o pay $50 4 the cover,Kristi T is my new bffand seh says ur just one of thos BIG JEALUS MEANINES!!!!. When my book cums out u will see how i m going to be a big best seller. i have to go becus her dauhgter is having her hissyrectme and i promise i would go feed there cat.
Signd: LaRoota Passion authur of UR Hert is for Rent and im the Landlord
Thanks to Mrs Giggles for moving the site: now I could join all of you in applying to submisions LOL
I do not know what is better, the website or the SBs comments?!
Gee, how nice, making fun of authors who are trapped in bankruptcy. I don’t see the humor in this. Sorry.
Should we also make fun of RWA for approving them? Readers for buying their books? EPIC for awarding EPPIES to some of their authors?
Sorry, but I believe in seeing the funny side of things. It’s sad if you can’t laugh at yourself. For me it’s the beginnig to rebuild whatever has been destroyed.
Sympathy for writers caught in these messes has been boundless across the internet. This blog and others have devoted columns to warning signs to help writers who are about to submit, or have done so.
This is PARODY—and shows just how schlocky some supposed e-publishers can be—and how even when it’s hideously obvious there will be those who submit anyway.
Err, is it bad that I’d actually read a book with a vamipire CIA agent?
Posted by Sandra D on 09/03 at 05:23 PM
I will go you one better. I read a book about a Navaho vampire policeman. The only saving grace is it wasn’t written by Cassie Edwards.
Mrs Giggles you are full of awesomeness. I really wish you had added the music.
I was taken so entirely in. I even sent on the link to a couple of places, saying omigod!
Oh she’s a wicked, wicked devil. Thank goodness.
Nora, thanks. Now, I can’t breathe.
Mrs. Giggles rocks. Of course, most of us with a sense of humor (even about ourselves, she’s trashed my books before and I consider it a rite of passage…um, several times over?) appreciate her to no end.
This cheered up my morning.
Yikes! PublishSHAMErica better watch their backs!
Awesome stuff, heavy on the “aw.”
Now I gotta take some pain killers. I’ve been fighting off a headache and the background on that site tipped me into the red zone of agony.
Oooogh-ouchie-ow.