More than a few people have asked me if I have given any thought to writing a book, and my answer is always the same: WHERE DEM DOLLAZ AT. Which is my way of saying that I like the sound of it, but I’m not sure if it’s
The way it usually works with zany blogs that get book deals is that they simply repurpose the online content into a book, but that wouldn’t really work for SYWH. First of all, without Youtube embeds it wouldn’t be nearly as good. Second, there is no way I could even get clearance for all the copyrighted images I get away with using online, and finally I’m not sure the shelf-life of most SYWH content is long enough that it would even be relevant in a book.
brb taking notes from old white lady who looks like she would hold up the line at Panera by taking forever to choose what kind of soup she wants
Since I can’t just copy-and-paste my way into Urban Outfitters, I thought of a couple other ideas, let me know wat u think:
- ADVICE BOOK FOR SOCIALLY AWKWARD BUT SMART AND AMBITIOUS BROS WHO DON’T WANT TO BE BETA LOSERS: Could build on the love advice posts I’ve done on here and include chapters on work, school, personal finance, etc. Basically, ‘how not to be a fuckup, from someone who almost was one’
- BOOK ABOUT HOW GAY AND LULZY YET ALSO AWESOME 90s PUNK/HARDCORE WAS: Tell stories of about ridiculous shit like vegan bake sales, Mean Steve from One Life Crew’s tanning salon, etc but also touch on how much of an incredibly positive impact it made on me and interview cool people like the dudes from Champion. Like “Burning Fight,” only not gay and boring.
I only know a little bit about the publishing industry but I bet someone reading this knows a lot. Good idea, bad idea, foolishly naive hubris or all of the above??? Halp!
Have had the same thoughts myself, and come to the same conclusions about videos/images/shelf life. I think you probably have enough content in here you could pull out that would be RLVNT on a shelf though.
you_have_the_ability_gorillas.jpg Go for it.
backedd
Write a novel based on your sweet-ass movie ideas.
Yes!
i would non-ironically read the shit out of both of those, D
wood buy D’s book on how to life/10 (srs)
if you already have the shirt… why not da book?? =D
totes bact tard!!!!
First one would sorta get lost in the MASSIVE clusterfuck that the self-help-book market is, but would still read and note even though its too late for me/10
The latter idea is my favorite by far.
The advice book for sure. Would read/10 even though I wouldn’t need 99% of the actual advice inside.
Why not combine both Sarge? Use stories of embarassing conduct in 90s hardcore as examples of what not to do for the different chapters lessons. Or you could try a picture book working along these lines with two characters let’s call them Alpha Al and Beta Bill.
“Alpha Al and Beta Bill.”
I am thinking children’s book on how not to be a fggt when you grow up.
Unfortunately Beta Bill couldn’t make it for today’s presentation. He spent all of yesterday on Metalsucks debating with people about whether or not Mastodon’s new hairstyle was metal, analyzing Sun 0))’s live playing and writing a blog post about how philosophical the experience was and harassing HaetersMaekMeFamuzz on last.fm about his musical choices. With such a packed schedule, he went to bed at 6:15 AM, grouchy because his review on Metal-Archives where he gave Slayer’s Reign In Blood a 2% because it “sounded generic” didn’t get Grim Kim’s erotic PM like he had hoped. Hands sore from all the masturbation to alt porn and from checking his friend’s dice to make sure they weren’t loaded, he will wake up at 2 PM tomorrow, skip shaving his neck again and tell off Sergeant D on MS when he publishes a post about the new line of Liturgy merch includes mesh shorts.
A+++
Wordy for the concept but so spot on! Super hard lol for Grim Kim PM
book chronicling embarrassing teenage trends 2000-2010
pls.
I’d read this
YES!!!
I’ll have some input for the scene/myspace/neon trend of 04 to 08 before raving/e-music/facebook ruined the whole goddamn party with their tech-ness
Latinoheat you rule. Just wanted to say that (no homo)
It’s going to be cited in academia by social science grad students. Sgt D’s gonna have a pretty sweet H-Index
Oh god, yes. Though it would be painful to read.
If you’re looking for Dem Dollaz…. the SgtD’s guide to lief is the way to go.
The other book would be good, but too much of a niche market via oldfags reliving their adolescence.
yeah p much that family guy ep where brian decides to write a parody self help book and it turns into a bestseller.
I’d love to read a book by you but idk which topic to pick I’d buy both cos you do have the ability and make enough puns to make it funyy
How to win bishes and influence betas
or
7 Habits of highly effective bros
or
Chicken Soup for the hXc soul
brb copyrighting these ideas b4 you guise steal them
2late alreday stole them all
brb posting STOP SOPA as my facebook pic
wood read both of those books/10
Love the idea of a SYWH self-help book. Those posts manage to be really funny *and* seem to be really helpful for lots of people.
Personally, I’d rather read a book based on the second idea, but the first idea would still be sweet and speak to a much larger audience/make more money. Round it out with training tips from gh15 and you’re good.
But be prepared to lose any trace of anonymity via authors being primarily responsible for doing their own book tours and marketing in 2012.
I want to see you start a zine with flexi 7″ vinyl of one of your podcasts included.
The book should include an accompanying CD with breakdowns to listen to while reading. And the audiobook version should be narrated by Johnny Craig.
Both would be great topics. I feel like you might have to give away your irl identity if you wrote the second? Maybe not? I think that topic would be slightly more interesting.
D, the first book you mentioned would be the shit. I am completely hungover as fuck right now after having a great 21st birthday but i mean that in the least gay way possible. YOur methods have gotten me laid and gf’s. Just the other nigth i got an extremely smashable latina girl to break up witih her way older bf (fuckin creep srs) and then proceeded to make out with her in my friend’s bathroom. Got her stink all over my hands. ;D
Kickstarter
To be honest, while I’d of course read books on either of those topics, as I’m sure most people commenting here would (duh, why wouldn’t we if we read your blog), from a purely pragmatic standpoint I don’t really know if it would be worth your time. Unless you are super lucky and into writing youth fiction, you aren’t going to make too much off of getting a book published in the first place (provided you could get a publishing deal in the first place), and while both of your ideas are solid basic concepts, I must agree that the former idea would have a hard time competing with the brazillions of other books in the “youth self-help” department, while the latter concept would appeal to a more fringe market, with the largest segment of the readership probably more likely to borrow it from a friend (if in physical format) or pirate it (if digital) than actually buy a copy. That’s what I’d guess, anyway.
Not trying to kiss your anus, but you’ve srsly done a remarkable job of creating not just an increasingly successful blog, but building a recognizable brand and even inspiring a mini-net based culture of “chill bros”. Given that the blog is the primary vehicle for building your brand at the moment, I would stick with that and continue to grow it into an institution first. Books by bloggers typically result in the said blogger being distracted by writing the book, the quality of the blog suffers, and then the quality/readership ends up suffering for it. The book never makes the blogger especially rich, and now the blog – which was the only reason anybody gave a fuck about the blogger in the first place, has taken a hit, and readership/respect takes a hit with it.
Anyway, sorry if I’m coming off really negative here, and I’m not trying to discourage you from doing something you want to do. But given how digital/web-based media only seems to keep expanding and expanding, it seems to make more sense with me to ride that wave rather than to backtrack into the increasingly unpopular/underpaying waters of physical print. Digital print may be a different story, but again, but again, keep in mind that you have tons of competitors, and that beyond the super loyal regulars who basically want an excuse to toss money at you, the average Joe probably isn’t going to be as interested in paying for something that they can (or have already did) get for free. If you really want to write a book, by all means go for it! You are certainly good and lovely and have the ability – just be careful about what you are getting yourself into.
Not negative at all, just realistic– this is pretty much exactly what I’ve been thinking. But like I said I don’t know much about the publishing industry so maybe I’m wrong.
You could do the best of both worlds a bit and self-publish through Amazon “print on demand”. You’d immediately get a bunch of sales from your devoted followers, and as your base continues to grow (assuming you can manage to keep the quality of the blog up while working on the book) you’ll have the product ready to go. You’ll miss out on the broader marketing from a publisher, but you might actually make more money via having a much higher cut of the revenue.
Not to mention the artfag concept of leaving something physical behind that will still exist long after society (and the internet with it) collapse. :)
Was going to come here and suggest something like that as well. I would definitely look into doing some sort of digital only method or something that would cut down drastically on overhead. Would def fork money over/read dat book.
I just don’t know what I would accomplish with anything digital that I couldn’t do with this site, you know?
Awesomeness! Weirdo’s like me will freak out on the sheer mass of content (srs)
Books by bloggers typically result in the said blogger being distracted by writing the book, the quality of the blog suffers, and then the quality/readership ends up suffering for it. The book never makes the blogger especially rich, and now the blog – which was the only reason anybody gave a fuck about the blogger in the first place, has taken a hit, and readership/respect takes a hit with it.
Maddox immediately comes to mind. Used to check his site as much as this one, then updates ceased and his book sucked because his style only really works in blog format.
Would go through severe withdrawal if Sarge stopped posting to write a book or for any other reason/10
Would buy 2 copies of the book just 2 support SYWH/10
Would special pre order to get a signed copy/10
Would show up at D’s book tour and embarrass myself, make awkward situation for everyone, and hold up the line with too many weird questions/10
on the other hand, David Thorne became a bestseller author (dude is hilarious as well) and now has 2 books
Holy shit I was JUST thinking of this, but as my name implies my comment was already way too long so I omitted it.
The thing about David Thorne is that his writing style evolved pre internet (via him being over 40), and therefore is much more adaptable to book format. In fact, his style in general is made for the novel.
In other words: David Thorne had a novel style of writing that adapted to the internet, whereas most bloggers have a blog style adapting to the novel.
Would LOVE Sarge’s honest opinion on both Maddox and Thorne, they are both hilarious imo.
David Thorne is my hero
I re-read his shit over and over again and its never not funny. Can’t read it at work or I’ll stink up the office by shitting my pants laffing.
His books were kinda disappointing via most of their content is on the internet
Ahhhh, thanks for that input, I was considering ordering the books. Might anyways just to support his blog financially.
Or I could just buy “cats” from him…
was actually wondering what the opinion of a genuine Australian was on Thorne.
You should post an AMA in the forum. I’ll make like 10 accounts to ask each individual question so it won’t seem like its just me
First book would be radical, as long as you kept your prose and whatnot. To compete with other self help books though you need to tell all of your wild fuck up stories.
Both of your ideas are good ones that you could realistically follow through on in book form.
I’ve been a proponent for a while now of: you = life coach.
I’d read what you would write.
-Roll to dick suck.
-17 vs “ew dude bjs AC of 15
-dick suck hits
Both ideas are solid, what I’d really love tho is if you turned the whole blog-as-a-book concept on its head and did something remarkably stupid with it. Given your aptitude for graphic design, an expensive-as-fuck SYWH coffee table book would be something to behold for example.
And besides the images and embeds problem, there’s also the comments, which sometimes really elevate the quality of your content – a rarity for blogs. So a fold-out best of comments appendix seems justified.
Also, the more ‘controversial’ stuff always helps sell shit (and these posts are funny and true for real), so how would Girls don’t like metal and Big Bush fit in? There’s so much more than advice for bros in there, bro. Like all good comedy, your best stuff is poignant commentary on contemporary society and culture (no homo).
As a content-based product development project I’m in love with it. :)
Write a book about how to find wifeable bishes.
I would non-ironically read the shit out of it.
srs
I’d day investigate some alternate channels instead of getting an actual publishing deal. I feel like you kinda missed the golden era of this kinda thing, back when Clublife and all those NYC bloggers cashed in about 4 years ago.
Still, people are reading hell of Kindle books, or you could do a self publishing thing, you could get all of us to buy the lavish coffee table book. If you decided to go the hardcore book route you could maybe put it out through a label or leverage a label’s connections possibly. I kinda have to believe if people will read fucking dorkus malorkus Ian Christie’s book, they’d read your book of hardcore anecdotes.
Doubt it’s worth it (srs).
If you go for the advice book it probably wouldn’t be received positively by that market, since I doubt you’ll go for the usual “u r a great person” bullshit.
And a book on hardcore… that would be cool, but probably only a few hundred people will buy it. Do a documentary (or maybe a mockumentary?) instead. Every documentary I’ve seen on hardcore is bullshit; they all have the same 10 people interviewed in them and treat hardcore like this mythical community full of great people and how it “saved” a lot of white suburban kids.
they all have the same 10 people interviewed in them
ugh, THIS
I thought AMERICAN HARDCORE was THE definitive documentary of THE definitive hardcore book!!!
=/
Only the Gays/206/Vegan/Oldfags are qualified to write retrospective books about HC. Always.
wood go for the 1st one. Not that the zany stories about the hardcore wouldn’t be awesome but doubt there’s much of a market for it.
but on the other hand that the 1st one would just bascially be a PUA except without all the ridiculous jargon
I dunno bro basically you gotta think about if you can do something that’s both unique and marketable
I work in publishing, and self-help books are consistently very successful. I have a poet friend who recently wrote a self help book and it outsold every collection she’s ever written combined (no surprises there though).Your writing style is pretty distinct, and it would probably benefit you to focus on the pro-alpha attitude you have. Books on music scenes don’t do very well, unless you have a lot of publicity around it (like that emo book that got pushed hard by myspace in 2006) or you’re actually from a band.
Best way to go about it is probably make a kickstarter for it, and release e-books on amazon. It’s pretty easy to format everything for kindle, and you take home most of the profits (70% I believe). Plus with the fanbase you’ve built, they’d probably shell out for the kickstarter for sure.
Thanks for the info, very helpful! I have a good ad deal, so I guess my basic calculus is something like assuming that a book takes the equivalent of X months of blog posts to write, would I make more from it than I would from X months of ad revenue?
A friend of mine wrote a book for a pretty big publisher (F&W), and I think made like $1500 or $2000 off it… not really worth the effort imo.
What’s usually happened from what I’ve seen is that site traffic will go down a tiny bit when writing it, but when it gets released it brings in a lot more traffic and a larger userbase. Given that it’s a self help book, it’ll appeal to more markets than sywh would, and then it will bring in people that wouldn’t normally browse the site. Combined with your connections to other sites, you could potentially gain a lot out of it.
And definitely don’t go to a real publisher. The industry is in shambles somewhat and no one looks at anything unless you have a literary agent.
Do a book on how u h8 chinamen lol
I feel like you could do a book, but being like you said that the book couldn’t use copyrighted images/jewtube, it might benefit from a shift in tone and style. The trick would be to make it still identifiably Sarge, but adjusted so as not to need the aforementioned visuals. Probably wouldn’t be easy, but not impossible either.
Another thing that comes to mind is the intentional misspelling and extreme immaturity that is hilarious in blog format, but might get old and repetitive in a full length book. I could be wrong about that, but either way, would an editor at a serious publishing company put up with that sort of thing? I really don’t know, serious question.
Anyways, I think it would be possibly to do a book, but copying and pasting the current blog format would probably be folly.
I personally like both of your book ideas. Here is a suggestion: write a chapter or two and get them down to how you want the rest of the book to basically read, then post that for critique/review. Obviously us at SYWH will be biased, maybe send it to any friends you have in journalism/print media and see what they think, too?
Question I’ve been meaning to ask: do you have any other writing of any kind I could read? I’d be seriously interested, even in your objective writing. An assessment of your other writing styles (if any) from different people might be an indicator of how novel ready you are.
I could be wrong about any of this, I have never written a novel, but that’s my feedback.
Would write a long winded, overly detailed review of Sarge’s book and post it in Amazon reviews/10
Question I’ve been meaning to ask: do you have any other writing of any kind I could read?
if you really really really want to read my academic papers about management and marketing, email me and I’ll send some to you (srs)
Done.
Great ideas.
For the Self-Help idea: Could I suggest perhaps contacting a writer who has experience in writing “self-help” books. I know it’s cliche, but I imagine that someone like Neil Strauss would be gr8 help in furthering the ideas you may have.
That would be tight. Would pay to see interaction between Sarge and Strauss. Funny Sarge’s name is Sarge… though IRRC, the name is not from the act of pickup but from something else
To be honest i think all that PUA stuff is gay. The ideas of course are fine but the whole culture surrounding it is so beta and pathetic, you know?
wood prolly purchase either one but the hao 2 suced one is more relevant to my interests (via being 17 = no care abt fossil bands)
i’d buy it as long as teh cover replicated the one you have “designed” above.
In my totally useless opinion, you should do a youtube video series based on the self-help idea. You could make duckets/chedda/gouda/guap off of the ads, it wouldn’t be that hard/expensive to make, you would get MUCH more exposure. I think, at least. Also lol@: normal people giving a fuck about books. Videos are much more accessible now.
The lulzy 90′s hardcore idea would work better as a book, because the kind of people that would read that are the kind of fags who still read books.
GET ON DAT GRIND. DO BOTH. STACK DOLLARS 2 SKY.
You could make duckets/chedda/gouda/guap off of the ads
jewtube ads pay for shit– a fraction of what I get from Blastbeat. But it could be a good way to generate more traffic to the site, so I like the idea!
“ADVICE BOOK FOR SOCIALLY AWKWARD BUT SMART AND AMBITIOUS BROS WHO DON’T WANT TO BE BETA LOSERS”
Write this book in old JRPG strategy guide format to appeal to their interests?
Equip this book for +2 Charisma!
Write this book in old JRPG strategy guide format to appeal to their interests?
WOULD READ X A MILLION
holy christ, yes please. i’m sure many rpgbetafags (read: me) already view life events in terms of random encounters, leveling up, etc. include some appendices with IRL items and their effects on your status. some walkthroughs on h2personalfinance. wood read teh strategy guide for life, the game. wood strive for 100% completion.
“Jesus was basically liek ‘if u read the bible and do everything in there, when u finish lief w/ 100% completion of all the subquests in the 10 commandments u will unlock New Game+, which is cool bc there is soooooo much post-game content in heaven!!’”
I think that Bronson is correct. This blog isnt a great sample size because the people who read it are your extremely narrow target market, being self-aware hardcore and metal nerds who aren’t/don’t want to be awkward weirdos. that doesn’t translate well into the “rando mindy kid at urban outfitters trying to find a gift for his bro” when he pages through and sees deliberately misspelled words, and half a book about a subgenre of music he knows nothing about. Plus, given that almost all of the content is only relevant for a short while, it would be hard to include a lot of the back content (e.g. pieces about Brokencyde in 2012).
I think you have the ability, but I’m guessing ‘in ur heart’ you think its not a good use of time and money to publish, but it would be a really fun and cool thing to do.
Yeah, you pretty much nailed it– but i think its always a good idea to get feedback from other people on ideas, because they almost always make you think of something you hadnt considered before.
Don’t make your blog jump the shark dude!
a good friend of mine recently wrote a ‘tucker max-esque’ book from the female point of view and self published on amazon. it seems to be working out fairly well for her, and she has maybe 1/4 of the fanbase that you do.
she told me that she tried to go to many publishers, had a few meetings, etc; but in the end most of them took so long to get back to her that it was easier for her to just put the thing up online(3 publishers hit her up with deals almost a week after the book was already for sale). this was almost a year after she initially met with them.
that being said…if you go the independent route, definitely be prepared to do EVERYTHING on your own and stick to the deadlines you set for yourself. missing deadlines and delaying the book is only going to cause frustration between you and your readers. im sure you know quite well, striking while your brand is continuously growing/hot is going to mean whether or not this book was worth the effort.
personally, the first book would definitely sell more and if you incorporated some life-experience along with the alpha-bro humor and would go over quite well.
In b4 some group called “Parents Against Sergeant D” forms an angry mob and gets your book banned & you become a pariah amongst people your own age but a hero to teenagers everywhere!!!
“Most offensive book I’ve ever read” – fggts
“I don’t know how he got published with this many spelling errors” – Uptight butthole
“I am disgusted, i thought a military man would have more dignity” – Korean War veteran
“Was this written by a drunk teenager? We need to ban alcohol and the internet” – Christian Parents Association
“I don’t know what ‘PIITB’ means but I’m sure we need to legislate against it” – Clueless oldz
“BRB filing a restraining order” – Kreayshawn
Dying!
“Paramore is NOT pop punk!” – tr00 pop punk blog
“Killswitch Engage is NOT hardcore!” – tr00 hxc fag
“Something rly srs about metal” – metalsucks comments
Do a biography (srs)
Chapter 1: i love cocks
On second thought, write a book about attracting water balloons
I want me some of dem
did giggle
Honk!
LOLOLOL
i used to work in the publishing industry so you should totally listen to me.
first of all i think your division into two main subjects makes sense, at least if you are trying to use up the whole blog text. but i think the first one is dismissible. the second is better and you could merge it with your ongoing perspectives on music/culture/etc. you have a decent writing voice but it needs some editing and cleaning up to be marketable.
the other thing is you need a 4real pubz agent or whathaveyou. who can you think of has made the same jump lately, exactly? i don’t know if urb outfits is your target exactly. talk to vice though. also talk to hipster runoff.
I promise i can write better than this- i pretty much never have time to edit, so you are totally correct that its rough around the edges. I would certainly make the time to polish it further before attempting to publish anything in a ‘permanent’ format
Stuff You Will Hate: A Guide To Not Be A Butthurt Loser With No Friends
do a 90s hardcore book all these people only want the love advice one cause they want to read it themselves
Sarge! you gotta write this one: “BOOK ABOUT HOW GAY AND LULZY YET ALSO AWESOME 90s PUNK/HARDCORE WAS” would love to read all the crazy stories.
Disregard self help book, Acquire JUSTICE screenplay.
Fuck books, thats nerd shit. Make shitty movies that are good but peopl think are bad on purpose but they’ll buy into it cus it’s cool and cuz fuck white people. More people would watch Big bush than eve read a book.
The ability, you have it.
Only if it’s in Braille
The hardcore history stuff would be a good choice. I’ve enjoyed all your posts regarding that topic, they’re pretty insightful and enjoyable to read. The love advice stuff, on the other hand, makes me embarrassed to be subscribed to this site. I feel like you kind of get out of your element with regards to that. Whatever you choose though, please, be safe.
Nah brah i’m more in my element there than talking about old hardcore i stopped caring about 15 years ago (also, i didn’t write the ‘hardcore history’ posts).
I think you should make a powerpoint series. Call it “Slides You Will Hate”. and have like a five/six series with 50 to 70 page slides with links n shit. It would be the first of it’s kind and surely will make you at least 40 to 50 trillion.
I would buy the shit out of a book about lulzy 90s hardcore.
I always thought you should write more if a Advise eBook series or something of the such. A lifestyle app would be even more likely to be popular. Pay around 1-3 dollars and get life lessons about not being a beta fggt where ever you go.
Complete with mosh workout plans, life stories, and a free Jesse Bowen wallpaper.
To be honest your how to lief posts are super funny to read in blog form and everything that surrounds them (comments, gifs, youtube videos). Many bros are concerned that your writing style cannot transfer very well into book form, but im positive it would be be fucking hilarious to read an advice book in internetspeak in a usual sgt D manner.
Either way, wudsupport/10 and wudpromotetofriends/10
For real this is my fav website and I identify hard with yr worldview via being an old nwhc bro but I don’t think it works in book form. I just recently was able 2 listen to the podcasts after getting over your total fggt speaking voice, no hate, I have one too and that takes balls. Main point everyone else already made is this blog rules and you have the ability for sure but if you’re trying to get $$ there’s probably better new media ways to do it than writing a book. I think the “lol 90′s hc” thing could have more legs than you think though, think about that vice book about black metal. Next thing you know our subculture could be the next thing to get fetishized by fggt hipsters. I’m rly just worried abt this blog going away though, keep doing your ting
Yeah I don’t blame you, I do sound like a huge faggot IRL. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about that, and I really wanted to do a podcast, so I just had to roll with. Can’t win em all.
sarge, i would probably buy a book that was effectively SYWH printed on paper. with comments and everything. just call it like SYWH Vol. 1. i realize that’s like teh worst idea of all tiem; i’m not a fucking consultant. BUT, i’m only kind of exaggerating. fer srs now: i think part of the success of SYWH is it has something for everyone. i wouldn’t want you to railroad the material into a self-help book or a manual for how to be tr00 hxc circa 1990, i would rather just have a massive jumble of ridiculous and unrelated shit. IF you picked some overarching topic, i’m just saying i hope you’d make sure to include basically all the other zany stuffs as well. i would fuck with a book that jumped from h2alpha to powerviolence gems to jrpgs to lulzy scene shit on back to back pages. with hilar pictures and screen caps of jewtube comments throughout. really the only common thread would be YOU (no homo). plus you could finally coup de grace the dinosaur idolatry of the publishing industry by just putting the internet in a book without even selecting “Fit to printer margins”.
I applaud your writing efforts, trying new projects is always a good idea.
Why not go the essayist route? Much of your blog writing is pretty much in essay form already. Get enough good ones together and fleshed out and you have a collection to self publish for a limited run. Print a hundred or so, give a few as gifts and then being the rest to all the fancy NYC/LA boutique bookstores for consignment sale. I’ve found some pretty great writers that way and, as douchy as some of those stores can be, the staff and customers are all serious readers and will talk up books they love. Remember, you have the ability!
Unrelated post- even woman hate White Knights: http://jezebel.com/5916353/ladies-of-the-internet-not+so+politely-tell-concernmongering-dudes-to-shove-it
I like the idea of combining the two ideas. Having an advice book about “how not to be a fuckup by someone who almost was one” is an intriguing premise and something I would definitely read. Maybe include sub-chapters with your experiences with 90′s punk/hardcore was, especially since you’ll be using personal anecdotes throughout for the advice part anyway. It would probably sell better if you market it as a humor book as opposed to a self-help book.
Just be prepared to not make much money from it. However, the satisfaction of completing the project might be worth it. It could be a good marketing tool for the site as well.
invest moar time into clothing brands n enpedestalment stuff. Dunho if I wuld read a book or not TBH.
Y not rite a book on da history of death core?
Hav the last 10 pages be the most brutal breakdowns
I would absolutely read a book about life written by Sargent D. I non-ironically have changed my outlook on life since reading your blog (no joke/no homo). On a serious note, you have a plethora of life experience from the school of hard knocks, plus you are fuggin hilarious so it would be a front-runner for the So-Fun-Club Award while simultaneously exerting wisdom.
Self-help book, backed. Espesh with the “chapters on work, school, personal finance”.
Or even just some posts on those would be rad.
Dat info.
Sorry to late comment but backed hard on the book for fuck ups from an almost fuck up. You know be real with us about how to get fucked up regularly but not ruin our lives. for those ex sxe bros or new party bros that don’t know how to handle themselves
nick pell’s powerviolence book got the ax, evidently… but a book that encompassed all the silly trends/lifestyles/jackassery in 90s hardcore would be appreciated. you could do it by region or year or both…
No, you should not. Your writing is terrible.
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