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Been a while but…

The “Your Son Is An Underachiever” Method
(Match all: Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is less than 15, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 songs selected by most often played)

1. Adamski “One Of The People (Forcemassmotion mix)”
2. Air “New Star In The Sky”
3. Billy Idol “Eyes Without A Face”
4. Billy Idol “Catch My Fall”
5. Blu Mar Ten “Untitled # 1″
6. Boards Of Canada “Kid for Today”
7. Midwest Product “Pigeons”
8. OutKast “Knowing”
9. P.I.G. “The Only Good One’s A Dead One”
10. Starecase “The Other Side of the Line”

The Lying Scumbag Method
(Match all: Last Played is not in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10; Limit to 10 songs selected by least recently played)

1. Ween “Candi”
2. Tricky “Strugglin’”
3. Swayzak “Doobie”
4. Sublime “New Song”
5. Stereolab “Caleidoscopic Gase”
6. Stereolab “Puncture In The Radak Pernutation”
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Righteous & The Wicked”
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Breaking The Girl”
9. Polaroid “So Damn Beautiful (Amethyst mix)”
10. Nine Inch Nails “Help Me I Am In Hell”

The Re-Cappa Method
(Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 songs selected by most recently played)

1. Underworld “Banstyle/Sappy’s Curry”
2. DMX Krew “Touch Me”
3. Apparition “Mindbender”
4. Tool “Sober”
5. Secret Knowledge “Sugar Daddy (Tripping On The Moon Remix)”
6. Underworld “Born Slippy (Nuxx)”
7. Underworld “Pearl’s Girl”
8. The Future Sound of London “Papau New Guinea (12″ original)”
9. Jimmy Van M @ Sanctuary “Sanctuary”
10. Lush “Thoughtforms”

currently playing: Naked Funk Feat. Valerie Etienne “Midnight Calling”

Via B^2: “…how books make (or don’t) money…”

At the meetings, people shake their heads and sigh, but you are an obnoxious editor who loves your book. You bother people enough until your publisher gives you a full page 4/c (four color — aka full color) ad in Romantic Times BookClub Magazine, and puts four other small books in the ad, so the price gets split. You bug more people, and you get 4/c bound galleys and a mailing to a couple of independent bookstores and a bookmark for the author to hand out.

The publisher tells you to get some in house reads, because she isn’t sure this is a wise use of resources — without blurbs, you’re going to have a hard time. Plus, you’re on your second cover — the art department just can’t get it right. You spent $4,500 hiring an artist. Now the art director is working on the cover himself, using stock art. You still have to pay for stock art — it costs $1,400.

Basically the same blurb that B^2 grabbed out. But fuck it, that’s the one that grabbed me. It’s a long read but worth it for the industry knowledge. (I don’t “work” books, remember - - just fantasize about making ends meet with the pen.)

It makes me want to do my own cover art.

currently playing: Underworld “Banstyle/Sappy’s Curry”