TAOS v2.0 - it's on hold at the moment..
Latest news -
Dumped the publisher! They would basically, well, actually own the rights to the text and I get a total of 0.7% total gross profit - given that it's a smaller company, and most sales would be via the internet, and that TAOS would be apart of ANOTHER overall book - it just wasnt worth parting with for what could amount to never be anything! Hell yeah, I am all about the bengemins here.. if you paid me enough I would sell my dignity, consisious, soul, etc.. but for a few pennies off each cover I am not willing to totally remove myself from it (of course I could still update it on the 'net but if I ever decided to publish a BOOK I woulld have to go tot them ans beg for the rights to my own work!)
So that explains that.. I have an e-zine up and running, but it's still not to first issue given that I recieved a few REALLY good articles from people - but for every good article I probably get 2 or 3 CRAP articles.. little one and two paragraph deals about nothing worth writing about... um, just for those interested in submitting - RAVE POETRY IS OUT OF THE QUESTION ..
Oh yeah, back to TAOS...
I am now thinking it might be a better idea to either somehow be selective in who gets a copy (much like software piracy, it wouldnt be possible to control) or to not release it at all..
I have a few main concerns -
1) The primary focus of the text is securing a LIFE TIME SUPPLY of meds, but this one takes work.. maybe a good 6 monthsto a years worth of your time, countless visits to differnt doctors, and you will go through COUNTLESS prescriptions for NON-FUN SHIT.. so yeah, the payoff is worth it, but you will WORK LIKE A FULL TIME JOB for this.. now the other part of this was going to be a bunch of "fast scams" I know of - stuff likethe kidney stone scam that can get you 30 Vicodin ES and a shot of Demerol, a follow-up to your gdoctor might get you 30 Percocet .. I am afraid that most people would opt forthe "fast scams" and while it's not like these are super-secret underground ideas, we don't need IDIOTS using TAOS as a guide to getting fucked up.. it's one thing to pull the occasional scam but I have this gut feeling that some would turn their weekends into nothing but trips to ER's and spend all their free time anoying their regular doctor for "one more refill" ..
2) As apart of 1 - teaching IDIOTS how to scam drugs.. people that, without TAOS would NOT be able to pull it off - these are the ones that scare me and make me concerned.. it's one thing to gets IDEAS from the book, but to use it as your manuscript for your doctors visits, you will not only fail, you might make it harder for others to succeed...
It will be puclished in some form, if anything, I might leave out some of the easy-to-fuckup "quick scams" (i.e. the kindey stone scam is really fail-safe for a good 15-30 Vicodin, some of them are rather complex and you would be exposed as a scammer if you failed) ..
My advice - wait for the first issue of the e-zine ("Altered States" and I dont care WHAT ELSE migh have the same name!)
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