If You Pay For Our Aspirational Package
Small Beer Press satirizes Harlequin’s new imprint vanity press by announcing Easymark Books:
We’re not interested in monetizing the slushpile, we’re interested in getting you to pay to publish it for our profit!** This is an example of an unproofed sentence with a comma splice. If you pay for our Aspirational package (Usually $5,999, for this month only $1,995!) we will proof your book. Your unedited, uncopyedited, and unproofed sentences will become more like this:
We’re not interested in monetizing the slushpile. We’re interested in getting you to pay to publish it for our profit!** Or even this: We need to hit up the uninformed and rip them off before anyone else gets the idea.
io9 gives a nice shout-out and back story.
