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Jon D. Gold

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John Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Terry Pratchett

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I've dropped out of more schools than you’ve attended. Then I dropped out of corporate life. There is nothing, so far, that I've not been able to drop out of. At some point, maybe even today, I expect to drop out of the world.

I've autodidacted my way through successful careers as a typographer, tech writer, SGML analyst, and restaurateur. I now fancy myself a novelist, as if that’s a thing.

I currently live in Oregon, but my favorite place in the world is a hundred feet beneath the warm cerulean seas of the Caribbean, because when the fishies make up silly stories about the nature of world, they keep it to themselves.

My turn-offs are self-important people, science deniers, pop-top cans that push the dirty top into the thing you're about to d
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Dear Agent

So, like any author, I wasted a good many months trying to obtain an agent to rep Rolling Bones. After failing to convince any of them to even read the book, I began sending out this response to their form letter rejections:

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Dear Agent,

Thank you for your letter of rejection. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offe Read more of this blog post »
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Published on February 23, 2014 14:44 Tags: agents, publishers
Average rating: 4.48 · 21 ratings · 10 reviews · 1 distinct work
Rolling Bones

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“I think that every once in a while, God ventures out for a cosmic burrito of ghost peppers and moon cats. The next day he craps out a giant flaming ball of gas. Those are the stars. The planets are remnants of other meals, grilled lava sandwiches or basalt burgers with Saturn rings. The universe is God’s infinite toilet, and we are the bacteria clinging to his fecal matter.”
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“I think that every once in a while, God ventures out for a cosmic burrito of ghost peppers and moon cats. The next day he craps out a giant flaming ball of gas. Those are the stars. The planets are remnants of other meals, grilled lava sandwiches or basalt burgers with Saturn rings. The universe is God’s infinite toilet, and we are the bacteria clinging to his fecal matter.”
Jon D. Gold, Rolling Bones
tags: god

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