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class=\"style7\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <font color=\"#FB7014\" size=\"4\" face=\"Tahoma\">Take My Publisher, Please!<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Ed Williams<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An actual phone conversation I had earlier today&#8230;.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Hello, is this Ed?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Uh, yes it is.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Ed Williams, the writer guy?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Uh, yeah, Ed Williams the writer guy.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093How are you? My name is Sam Filbert, and I\u0092m a big fan.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Hey Sam, it\u0092s nice to meet you, what can I do for you?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093It\u0092s really you, isn\u0092t it?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Yeah Sam, last time me and my mirror met, it was me.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093What? Oh, okay! I see what you\u0092re meaning. That could even be funny, you know. Did you mean for it to be?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Just horsin\u0091 around. What can I do for you?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093I was given your name and number by your dad, Fred Williams, Jr. He seems like a really nice guy. We talked for a long time, and then he gave me your phone number so that I could call you. What a great guy!\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Great isn\u0091t even close to how I\u0091d describe him right now, Sam. Old Fred is quite a guy, and then some. Now look, I have some work I have to get done, and I know you didn\u0092t call just to tell me just how much you like sweet old Fred. What can I do for you?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Ed, I wanted to know if you\u0092d like to help America\u0092s next humor writing superstar!\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Well, tell me the name of the person and what they\u0092ve done, and then we can talk more.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Ed, with all due respect, I\u0092m talkin\u0092 about myself!\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Sam, you write?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093I sure do, Ed. Let me tell you a little about what I\u0092ve written. For the last six months I\u0092ve written something every day, in fact, I write at least two pages each day no matter what!\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Sam, that\u0092s very impressive. What kind of stuff do you write?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Well, I love to write stories about growing up in a small Southern town. I grew up in Shady Dale, Georgia, so my manuscript is a bunch of funny stories about all the crazy things we did when I was growing up there.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093That\u0092s great, Sam, I give you a lot of credit for being persistent enough to complete an entire manuscript. That\u0092s quite an accomplishment. What\u0092s next for you?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093That\u0092s where you come in, Ed.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093That\u0092s where I come in? What\u0092re you talking about?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Ed, look. I know getting a book published is hard. Real hard. And I\u0092m sitting here with all these great stories about growing up in Shady Dale &#8211; I have no doubt that they\u0092ll be popular and sell tons of books. That\u0092s where you come in, and that\u0092s where you can help me. You can get me in front of a publisher in no time, and then I\u0092ll convince them that they need to publish my book!\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093I can do that? How?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Just introduce me to the people over at River City Publishing, your publisher. I\u0092ll take it from there. Once they see my stories, I guarantee you they\u0092ll want to do a book.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Ummmmm, Sam, I don\u0092t quite know quite how to say this, but my own stuff happens to be \u0093growing up in the country\u0094 stories set in Juliette. If I bring River City your stories, which also seem to be \u0093growing up in the country\u0094 stories set in Shady Dale, then I\u0092m competing with myself. And that\u0092s a not a very smart thing for me to do.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Ed, you\u0092re being a little selfish here, aren\u0092t you? I know my stories are better, but I\u0092ll bet you could still find someone to continue publishing yours. River City is just one publisher, I\u0092ll sure you could find another one.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Exactly, Sam, which is why you should take the initiative and go out and find your own publisher. I wish you the best in your search.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093You\u0092re not gonna help me? Don\u0092t you think you\u0092re being a little selfish here, Ed?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093No, Sam, I don\u0091t. I wish you the best of luck.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Man, this isn\u0092t how your dad Fred said it would go. I trusted him, especially after reading so much about him. Mr. Fred said you like helping new writers, and here I am asking you for help, and you don\u0092t wanna help me.\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Sam, tell you what, I\u0092ll make a deal with you. I\u0092ll help you out with River City if you\u0092ll go out first and find me another publisher. Then we\u0092d be even, you\u0092ll have a publisher and I\u0092ll have a publisher. Whatcha think?\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0093I gotta run, Ed. The wife is hollering for me. Tell Fred hello!\u0094&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>*click*&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#13;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"8\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#dddddd\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><b>About The Author<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ed\u0092s latest book, \u0093Rough As A Cob,\u0093 can be ordered by calling River City Publishing toll-free at: 877-408-7078. He\u0092s also a popular after dinner speaker, and his column runs in a number of Southeastern publications. 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