By 'author' I think they meant 'Attention whoring hack'

Speaking as a writer myself, I find it quite restricting to artificially insert characters/plot lines. I'm not sure how this guy works, but my best Ideas often come from spur of the moment thoughts.

/just sayin

Shouldn't therebe a 'Greedy' tag?

Vote for me and I'll put you in my book.

/it needs more eunuchs

All of you give me $100 bucks, because I just had a great idea; I'm gonna write a book about Fark.

It's gonna be one hell of a weird book.

I thought it was Irvine Welsh (read Trainspotting a while back), did a Google search, and discovered that "Irving" and Irvine" are used interchangeably. Anyone able to shed light on why?

drew should pony up some money and have the character name fark f. farker

Do an Amazon search then, Bonanza Jellybean. And IMDB.

Yes, it will be great to see the wacky antics of golden palace.com....

Didn't Piers Anthony put in a girl who had been in a car crash or something? Jenny Elf was the character, IIRC. I dunno, I thought it was a nice gesture, maybe a little creepy.

/voting?

Kar98: Do an Amazon search then, Bonanza Jellybean. And IMDB.


I tried that. Still not any clearer.

Nelson DeMille's been doin this for years, for charity.

Robert Ferrigno had a contest on his website recently marketing the same thing.

It's definitely Irvine Welsh.

Be funny to pay him to be a character in his book who is a whore-author who rents out space in his next novel to keep him in guiness.

The end justifies the means.

And who, even funnier for an Irishman, can't spell Guinness.

At least it's not a J.K. Rowling book...

Stephen King already did this.

I'd bid on this but I don't think he'd want to include a hermaphroditic amputee midget in his book.

MyNameIsMofuga: I'd bid on this but I don't think he'd want to include a hermaphroditic amputee midget in his book.

One-third of that was recently done quite successfully.

Didn't Piers Anthony put in a girl who had been in a car crash or something?

I know that he finished a book for a teenager who had been killed in a car crash. "Through the Ice," I believe it was called. Kid had died, and Piers was his favorite author, so his friends convinced him to finish his book.

Also, Micheal Stackpole let some people pony up some cash to be in one of his Battletech books. Of course, in that case, the money was going to a charity cause, not his pocket.

didnt neil gaiman do this not to long ago

/or was it someone else?

Meh. Only interested if it's a Harlequin romance novel....and I can be the Fabio character.
/nice pecs..
//mean that in a totally hetero way

Who is Chance?

This is a great idea when it's done for charity, or for organisations like the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Jason Johnson is doing it for personal financial gain, and should therefore be shunned for the prostitute that he evidently is.

Author Webmaster auctions sells chance TotalFark subscriptions to be character in his book read headlines a little bit earlier than the rest of us. Spends his remaining years wealthy and drunk.

/i wanna be drew

This is like the Who's Who of the fiction world.

Villain: This is like the Who's Who of the fiction world.

Damn, Villain. I went to click on your link! Don't tease me like that.

Pffft.

Check out Cooking With Bigfoot.

I paid 40$ to the creator, and I'm the protestor on the right with the glasses and the hat.

And, BTW, the series was pretty danged funny.

Pratchett did it.

dmax, you got ripped off, and I want my 5 minuets back.

King, Gaiman, and several others did this a while back for charity. I believe "Cell" is the king book.

As other have said many authors have done this for charity and other reasons. Niven and Pournelle did it in Fallen Angels... one of those written in characters was no other than Richard Stallman(aka RMS) as himself... only a bit part... he was mentioned as a hacker that secretly helped the heros and was onyl identified as the guy that wrote emacs.

David Gerrold did this on the WELL, except his was to raise money for charity.

How is this news? Authors have been doing it for years. Some time back Steve Perry made a lot of money for the Clarion Writer's Workshop scholarships by auctioning off the right to be murdered in his next book.

Finnley Wren: MyNameIsMofuga: I'd bid on this but I don't think he'd want to include a hermaphroditic amputee midget in his book.

One-third of that was recently done quite successfully.

I am going to have to sue somebody.

Weidbrewer: Also, Micheal Stackpole let some people pony up some cash to be in one of his Battletech books.

Which one? I'm a collector of most Btech novels, I've just never heard of that.

akzeac: Pratchett did it.

So does David Weber, I believe. Quite often he'll add them in, give them a few quirks like the person/people (the spade players from either In Enemy Hands or mainline Honor book after that), but for the most part they're background characters with the same name.

I want to be the one who determines who lives and who dies.

BarkingPumpkin

At least it's not a J.K. Rowling book...

I would pay 20 quid to be a character in Harry Potter book who knocks up Hermione, and leaves her with a bastard muggle child.

kentriccubed: Speaking as a writer myself, I find it quite restricting to artificially insert characters/plot lines. I'm not sure how this guy works, but my best Ideas often come from spur of the moment thoughts.

yeah, me too, but.. whaddya do when you can't come up with a name for a character? with this contest in mind, inserting someone's name into the book might be a small help at least.

I can just imagine the fanbois now:

"Please let it be the last Harry Potter, please let it be the last Harry Potter, please let it be the last Harry Potter..."

[Reads TFA]

"NOOOOOO!"

Any character in a novel based on my life (previous) would be exiled. Or celebrated or reviled or in a gitmo (non islamic) setting.

Anyway, characters based on reality are a strong staple in Fiction. RE: cheap das for some TV network. Charectors welcome?

Neil Gaiman auctioned the name of a boat in Anansi Boys(?) for the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund.

I'm already a fictional character.

Ask anyone.

Speaking as a writer myself, I find it quite restricting to artificially insert characters/plot lines.

Posting on Fark threads doesn't count as publishing there, Skipper.

One Holy Roman Emperor veale728 coming right up!

I thought this was about Irvine Welsh, not some Irish blokey. No dollars for you!