[kennyc]

From the site:

After just twenty-three short years, 4,762 rejection slips, two failed marriages and a teensy weensy mental breakdown, I finally have a publishing contract and received a fat $5,000.00 advance.
Well $5,000, minus my agent's fee, and taxes of course, but that still leaves me with a cool three grand plus.
Although, I guess, when you subtract the expense of all those conferences I went to over the years to pitch to agents, the gas, the tolls, the wear and tear on my car, and also the cost of postage, printing and envelopes to send out those queries and manuscripts, that maybe, maybe what's left isn't much.
Hell, looking at it that way, I suppose... well, I'm actually in the red.
But none of that matters, and do you know why none of that matters?
Well, I'll tell you why,
It's because I did things the Right Way.
And now I can say with pride that I AM A REAL AUTHOR!