Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Rob, your comment about advances is so blatantly WRONG, and to insist that a bunch of gambling publishers backed you up -- it's ludicrous. It's goddamn stupid.

I am no expert on gambling publishing (or publishing in general) at all, but I know what you wrote is trash.

Why do you insist on pretending you are expert regarding things about which you know very little?

By the way, for the record, I was contacted by an actual publishing agency (not a vanity press or similar junk) about doing a book when I was a young man after my essay, "Scientists, Gamblers, and Magicians" was published. I was an idiot and wanted to do the book my way as opposed to a more commercial way, so I wound up killing the project. Ah, the stupidity of youth.
You're so full of shit red. Everything I said is exactly the way it went down. I could easily tell you were only doing what you do when you get caught lying about the many things you lie about: you automatically deflect to having this uncanny knowledge about someone or something related to the subject. Then you show how shaken you are using a weak, unsupported allegation, by immediately posting almost non-stop about the same subject IN YET ANOTHER CLOWN-AUTHORED POST! And you can call those guys I talked to if you have the gonads to.... if they'll even talk to a quack like you.

So go ahead--produce proof on ANYONE who's ever received an offer of an advance to write their first ever gambling book (insert multiple belly laughs!)