Big Shot Author is following me!!

Yo all, I have to brag somewhere.

So I went to a comedy show in Brooklyn and ended up meeting a published author through Harper Collins and a big-shot editor with Publishers Weekly (those are freaking huge names for anyone who knows about books). I casually pitched a novel about "a corporate military cadet who rebels against his own army to escape human experiments and save the planet from manufactured Global Warming" and they are now following me on Twitter, and I ended up on an exclusive private email list.

Holy bulltrout batman I have no idea how I pulled this one off or what I'm going to do with it but I have to brag to someone!

Wow! that is cool!

I had a Big Shot Author following me for a few months, but I finally managed to get a restraining order. That put paid to it. I don't mind the "hide behind cover and stare wistfully" type of followers, but when they started rooting through my rubbish and making nuisance phone calls I had to take action. You want to be careful, lad.

Big Shot Author!? But he's my favourite author!

But do you have a Mindblow Author following you?

Are you sure that the person following you is really that author? It would be a real Hammer Blow to your ego if they turned out to be a fraud.

If it happened to me I'd be smurfing furious, just completely at my AngerMax.

Or even worse, what if they are just trying to scour your idle twitter thoughts to steal ideas and make them into the next big hit novel after hearing your awesome pitch? That would be a real Catastrophe.

That's the terrifying power of technology today though, isn't it? You put an idea out there and then some opportunist, with the help of a Satellite Beam, posts it up on Twitter and claims it for their own.

'Big Shots', the new fragrance by the author.

As long as we're bragging, I got a reply from Jim Ross from WWE when I commented on his beard on Twitter when he appeared at a sports game.

I think he's just trying to make us other writers jealous.

Seriously though, congrats man!

Hahaha you guys are great. I'm laughing so hard I'm trying not to cry in public. That would be so weird if it weren't the real author! Cuz then it's like wtf are you doing handing out copies of someone else's book lol?

I'm still kinda in awe about how this all went down. It was like "oh shoot you're all like important people...talking to me...Do I write too?...well actually...think fast think fast..."


​I have a feeling someday this will make a great sketch comedy skit.

A bunch of authors tend to follow me on twitter when they find out that I write. Then they promptly unfollow me when they find out that 90% of what I post on twitter are dumb game screenshots.

(this is also when everyone else unfollows me, too)

Wingless conversing with Big Shot Author.

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/35707513.jpg

Wish I could say but they don't know my handle and I don't want them to Google their name and find this thread >_< *Jinx Jinx* (lol I just realized what your SN was). I can say they're a pretty well regarded fiction author and were throwing around big Scifi names like "oh I just had coffee with him yesterday." O.O

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Originally Posted by Jinx

So anyway, how is your sex life?

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Like a Grenade Bomb, one assumes.

I heard it's basically just one "big shot."

This would've been a better thread if it was a "Money shot".

We've gone too far with the Big Shot theme to turn back now. You might say there ain't no gettin' offa this train we on.

Are we talking about running a train here? :P