Jessie cashes in

Ed Rasimus wrote:

"Leadfoot" wrote:

I thought splitting a million bucks with a questionable ghost writer was
pretty cheap. She could have done better.

Now much did you get for "When Thunder Rolled"? Had to be what 2-3 million
;-)

My royalties, if and when they ever arrive, will pale by comparison.
I'm planning on taking my wife to dinner. Somewhere nice...Carrabas or
Chili's maybe....

Ed Rasimus

Uh huh...somewhere _quite_ nice I'd say...
--

-Gord.

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, "Phineas
Pinkham" blurted out:

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

Hmmm, a million dollars versus having lived the life of a combat
fighter pilot?

You're right, Jessie probably is jealous...she has every right to be,
but the money is some consolation...barely.

Juvat

"Phineas Pinkham" wrote in message

Sour grapes mode still on! :-)

The only sour grapes on display in the fruit market that is your mind are
all yours "old boy".

Ed has Been There and Done That, and most assuredly Has The Teeshirt. Lynch
has as well but under a different paradigm altogether.

You, on the other hand, have done *what* exactly that merits a book deal
again? Just remind me, I'm sure it was something stupendous.

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"Tex Houston" wrote in
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Was she in military aviation service?

Nope.....
Clerk in an Army transport battalion maintenance
detachment.

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"IBM" wrote in message

"Tex Houston" wrote in
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Was she in military aviation service?

Nope.....
Clerk in an Army transport battalion maintenance
detachment.

She rode out of the hospital in Iraq on a helicopter. That's closer to on
topic than a lot of the discussion here.

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"Phineas Pinkham" wrote in message
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"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written
by a free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

Not to me.
Tom Schoene

In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, the ghost writer-
has twice won the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors
Distinguished Writing Award, and more than 50 writing awards in his
20-year
career. In 1992, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
He has taught writing in colleges and in newspaper news rooms.

Sour grapes mode still on! :-)


Ed's right. Further, I don't think Jessica's in a position to make an
informed judgment regarding the ghost writer. Especially one who appears to
have purloined somebody else's work. Makes you wonder about the awards, as
well, doesn't it?

Don H.

"Ed Rasimus" wrote
"Leadfoot" wrote:

I thought splitting a million bucks with a questionable ghost writer was
pretty cheap. She could have done better.

Now much did you get for "When Thunder Rolled"? Had to be what 2-3 million
;-)

My royalties, if and when they ever arrive, will pale by comparison.
I'm planning on taking my wife to dinner. Somewhere nice...Carrabas or
Chili's maybe....

When I retired from the Air Force, I decided to write magazine articles
(electronic hobbyist magazines) while I went back to school. After selling my
first two articles for $125 each, I decided I would have to have about about
six articles a week in the queue to make any "real" money. They paid you
after publication, and my second article took 6 months before they accepted
it (I then put a clause in each article that non-acceptance after 8 weeks was
considered a negative, and they quickly rejected them).

Ah well... Maybe if you included a sorcerer and a boy with dark rimmed
glasses...

Thomas Schoene wrote:
Phineas Pinkham wrote:
Ed Rasimus wrote:

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written
by a free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.

Sounds like jealous sour grapes to us, old boy!

Not to me. Ed's already got one excellent book written by his own hand and a
second on the way. He may not outsell Lynch, but I can certainly tell you
that he's getting more of my money and she is not.

Well said. While I've recommended Ed's book to all my friends,
relatives and family members, I won't even bother to peruse
the book jacket of any book written about Jessica Lynch. I wonder
what the name of her book will be...

-Mike ("The First Casualty of War is the Truth?") Marron

"Dudley Henriques" wrote
"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.

I agree, and I have a problem with the whole thing really. Like you, I don't
begrudge her the money, but there are mitigating circumstances to her "hero"
status to begin with. Personally, I feel she would have been better advised
everything considered, to refrain from being suckered into this deal. It has
lawyers and shady dealing written all over it.

The NYT writer is an honorable man. His point that the NYT "never" allowed
any writer to list their sources. Saying that the use of others while necessary,
was a dirty truth best left out. This fact was glossed over in the hype.

Jesse's story will be ancient history in a year, and she needs a writer who can
get it into print as early as Christmas. After that, she might as well be that
woman who was kidnapped and buried alive. What was her name? Yea,
I know, who cares... Ancient history...

Subject: Jessie cashes in
From: Ed Rasimus
Date: 9/2/03 1:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id:

Cub Driver wrote:


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.

While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (ret)
***"When Thunder Rolled:
*** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam"
*** from Smithsonian Books
ISBN: 1588341038


WAIT TILL THE FILM RIGHTS HIT. THEN THERE WILL BE TV SERIALIZATION. AND DOLLS
ETC. THIS IS A $10 MILLION DEAL.


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