Anthology Update 3 from Richard

T he first draft of the anthology manuscript will be posted some time between Sunday,
November 23 and Wednesday, the 26th. After reading it, you do not necessarily have to be a contributor to the project in order to give any ideas you may have to improve the book. You can either post your idea(s) on the Poetry/Stories board or email them to me. I will use your idea only if I believe it will increase our chances of the book being published. Keep in mind that this is only the first draft. I hope to submit the final draft no
later than early January to our publishing company, Whitmore Publishing (whitmore
publishing.com). This first draft will not have any illustrations because our artist, Ben, will not be able to include his drawings until later.

If you are a contributor, please look over your work carefully and let me know if there have been any changes that you are not satisfied with.


Also, any new members coming into the group up until December 11 who wishes to participate in some way in this project, please email me at richardrcook2@aol.com. One last such request will be posted on both the General and Poetry/Stories boards several days before that deadline.

With this anthology we simply want the world to know that we exist as a community of people that is trying to get the scientific community more involved in helping us with this medical condition. We know society is disgusted by us, which is why another goal of the book is to give people a glimpse of how their meanness affects us and how cruel and unnecessary it is; to give them a little tour into our world.

I want to prepare everyone for the possibility that this is only the beginning of a long road to getting our book published. If we’re lucky, the first publishing company will accept our manuscript. If not, buckle your seatbelt and settle back because it might be a while before we reach our destination. Hopefully the road won’t be too bumpy. One thing I can guarantee is that I will not give up on this project until our book is published.
And once it is, I wish there was some way we could all get together for a party—only us. Or maybe we can have some sort of online party?

Richard

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