INVESTOR BACK CHANNEL: Who's covering me in the Terminal?

From: Gabrielle DePlancher
Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:06 PM
To: "Theodore Q. Rorschalk", Boligard Doomey

Just checking...lalo and otto remain our contacts in The Terminal?

I hope to forward the caps earlier this quarter and want to make certain of the current status of things. Thanks.

DeP
[Gabrielle DePlancher]
~ The Floor, TQR


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From: Theodore Rorschalk
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:08 AM
To: Gabrielle DePlancher

Thanks for checking in early. I will get with them and see how it's shaking down. And get back to you shortly with the down low.

TQR
founder and CEO of Total Quality Reading, LLC

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From: Gabrielle DePlancher
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:31 PM
To: Theodore Rorschalk

Thanks. I will hang here, in the balance, cap in hand. Until I know what you know.

DeP
[Gabrielle DePlancher]
~ The Floor, TQR

Total Quality Reading attracts total quality VC ... but will he become a bonafide CG'd VC? We shall see... (PSssst, a sense of humor never hurts)

Subject: Submission: "The Haunting Of Beethoven's Fifth", Mark Rigney, 9,325
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From: Mark Rigney
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM
To: tqrstories

Dear Mr. Rorschalk,

Attached you will find "The Haunting Of Beethoven's Fifth," which isn't quite long enough to deserve your instant rejection form, yet not quite short enough to vanish entirely. I hope it might find a home on your pages.

And no, it is not a simultaneous submission! Hooray!

Recent credits include The Best Of the Bellevue Literary Review, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Talebones. Upcoming stories will appear in Realms Of Fantasy, Black Gate, and Sleet. My stage plays have been seen in sixteen states plus Canada, with more in the offing––wherever that may be.

I wish you all the best in your life and work, and look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Mark Rigney



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From: Theodore Q. Rorschalk
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM
To: Mark Rigney


Dear Mr. Rigney,

Thank you for the submission. Your track record is most impressive. I will send this to the Floor for its initial examination. I wish you the best of luck.


--
Theodore Q. Rorschalk
founder and CEO of Total Quality Reading, LLC


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From: Mark Rigney
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:22 PM
To: "Theodore Q. Rorschalk"

Well, a pedigree will get me a cup of hot water when I turn on the tap, and no donut.

So thank you, I'll take the luck!

Cheers,

Mark
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THoBF = 1st Terminaled cap ... Scroll down to read the fateful post

Robert Dunbar wrassles with his new venture: UNINVITED BOOKS

From: Robert Dunbar
Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:05 AM
To: Theodore Rorschalk


Re: Submission process
We don't have one yet. If I can keep my own (and the company's) head above water for another few months, my goal is to bring on an associate editor and start looking at submissions. Fingers crossed please!


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From: Theodore Rorschalk
Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM
To: Robert Dunbar


Starting your own wood pulp and binding publishing venture is indeed a perilous and seat of your pants affair. We at TQR wish you best of luck and will do our best to give you all the publicity that our humble e-zine can muster. Thanks for the opportunity to review GARDENS OF NIGHT.


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From: Robert Dunbar
Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM
To: Theodore Rorschalk


Thanks. Ebooks will be coming down the ramp in a few months. Also looking into audio-books. Hell, I'm checking out a system where the author comes to your house and tells you the story ...

(So far not much interest in that last one. Must consider better looking authors.)

Boligard Returns ... fresh off Dostoyevski, he accepts review for GARDENS OF NIGHT

From: Theodore Rorschalk
Date: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM
To: Boligard Doomey

You still reside here. I've got a new release from Uninvited Books (the outfit I told you to send your stuff to) that I want you to review. You up to it? I hope your Christmas was bright and you survive the New Year's party. Take care yosef.
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TQR
founder and CEO of Total Quality Reading, LLC

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From: Boligard Doomey
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:55 AM
To: Theodore Rorschalk

Yep. Better be a good book. I am reading A killer bio about Dostoyevsky. Very inspiring. Maybe my block will evaporate. Hope your holidays were killer. When's TQR start up again? I've been a bad boy not tossing in some banter here and there. Bad me. Send the book. The Magicians by Lev somebody sucks! I hate writers. Hah.

Sent from my iPhone

Of Review Copies and Undiscovered Authors at Uninvited Books

Date: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM
To: Robert Dunbar

Thank you for keeping TQR uninvited, as it were. I'd love a review copy. I just don't know what address to give you to send it to just yet. Please let me get back to you in a day or two when I've got some confirmation from that third party I am trying to pin down. Happy Christmas and New Year to you, sir.
--
TQR
founder and CEO of Total Quality Reading, LLC


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From: Robert Dunbar
Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:42 AM
To: Theodore Rorschalk

No problem. Just let me know.

Happy New Year!

Robert Dunbar, Editor
U N I N V I T E D B O O K S
www.UninvitedBooks.com

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From: Theodore Rorschalk
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM
To: Robert Dunbar

Dear Mr. Dunbar,

The reviewer I had in mind to review Gardens Of Night for TQR has not responded to my gmail, so just send it to the address you sent the query to: *********

Thanks! And I wish Uninvited Books all the best. Just curious, has J. Slavens queried you concerning your submissions process? I ask because I'm a big fan of his and am constantly harrassing him about getting his stuff out the heck out there. I mean, if he keeps it locked up in a steamer chest in the attic it's not going to pop, right? Thanks again.
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TQR
founder and CEO of Total Quality Reading, LLC

Sometimes one slips through the proverbial sewer grate

Dear Sir or Madam,

I've just been going through my records and realised that I submitted a short story, titled 'Seeking Kailash' to TQR on 25th July 2008. Am I correct in assuming that it has been rejecting and the communication went astray?

Yours sincerely

David Miles
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Dear Mr. Miles,

I am terribly sorry about the communication that went astray. Indeed, "Seeking Kailish" was rejected. TQR endeavors to subject its submissions to a speedy trial, but invariably the results of a few of these trials for some reason are not relayed to the submission's maker. For this, I apologize. I look forward to reading you in the future.

TQR

E McDermott makes it official ... inks deal with TQR. Prefers cheque to cash.

Dear Mr. McDermott,

Simply sign contract below and send it back and then I'll send your remuneration. I'll contact you shortly concerning the insider trading clause. Thanks again and Happy New Year.
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TQR Publishing Contract
AGREEMENT dated this day of Saturday, January 01, 2011, in which we, the publisher, TQR, agree with you, the author, Edward McDermott, that you grant us the nonexclusive right to publish your work entitled "GOING HOME" on our World Wide Web site in exchange for $80 American, to be tendered by personal check or cash sent to the address specified by the above named author. All other rights to the work belong to you. You guarantee that this work is your own and that you have the right to grant us the use of it. We will code the work in HTML as needed for Web presentation, but will make no substantial changes in text or title without your permission (excepting the odd comma, or obvious typographical error).


INSIDER TRADING CLAUSE
In order to better market its Capital Gains on the site, a TQR staffer may work up a number of questions for a particular character inhabiting “GOING HOME" that you, Edward McDermott, agree to answer by channeling the aforementioned 'particular character' from inside the Capital Gain of your creation.


Theodore Q. Rorschalk 01/01/2011




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Theodore Q. Rorschalk
founder and CEO of Total Quality Reading, LLC



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From: edward McDermott Date: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM
To: "Theodore Q. Rorschalk"



__Edward McDermott___________January 3 2011

Please send remuneration in the form of a cheque to the address on the story.

Edward McDermott

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