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Old 06-06-2010, 12:44 PM   #79
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Ahh, John Ringo's "Ghost". Something he literally wrote to just "get it out of my system", and then Jim Baen insisted on publishing it. Insisted by adding more money to the contract until no sane author would say "no".

And now it, and the associated series, makes him more money than anything else he's written, or is likely to.

I'd try something similar, except I'm INCAPABLE of writing stuff like that. My "embarrassing thing written just for me" is an Oz pastiche/homage novel called "Polychrome".
PLEASE don't. I love John Ringo's SF, but "Ghost" and its sequels make me cringe. I think they're absolutely ghastly.
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