In 2004, PublishAmerica, a vanity publisher that pretends not to be a vanity publisher (often claiming that they had stringent acceptance guidelines), decided to publish a few articles on their website dumping on the science fiction and fantasy genres. This prompted a number of authors in said genres to combine their talents to write what eventually became the novel Atlanta Nights, a book purposely wtitten incredibly bad and nonsensical to see if PublishAmerica would accept it. With the vague ‘plot’ following the tawdry exploits of a group of Atlanta socialites, the book includes plot holes large enough to drive a tank through, characters that die in one chapter and reappear later without explanation, duplicate chapters, missing chapters, and one chapter created entirely via predictive text generator. It was submitted under the pseudonym Travis Tea, and even the cover, which like the submission above, featured a sihlouetted palm tree at sunset, was a lie, since Atlanta is too far inland for that scene to be possible there.
Of course PublishAmerica accepted it, after which the authors revealed their hoax, prompting PA to finally rescind.
Oh, god, THAT ONE! Yes, now I remember. For some reason, I had that mentally filed as Atlantis Nights, duh. (Probably due to the fantasy thing that provoked it.)
Okay I CAN’T be the only person who immediately thought of Atlanta Nights when I saw this, right?
Eh, what? Atlanta Nights is…what?
In 2004, PublishAmerica, a vanity publisher that pretends not to be a vanity publisher (often claiming that they had stringent acceptance guidelines), decided to publish a few articles on their website dumping on the science fiction and fantasy genres. This prompted a number of authors in said genres to combine their talents to write what eventually became the novel Atlanta Nights, a book purposely wtitten incredibly bad and nonsensical to see if PublishAmerica would accept it. With the vague ‘plot’ following the tawdry exploits of a group of Atlanta socialites, the book includes plot holes large enough to drive a tank through, characters that die in one chapter and reappear later without explanation, duplicate chapters, missing chapters, and one chapter created entirely via predictive text generator. It was submitted under the pseudonym Travis Tea, and even the cover, which like the submission above, featured a sihlouetted palm tree at sunset, was a lie, since Atlanta is too far inland for that scene to be possible there.
Of course PublishAmerica accepted it, after which the authors revealed their hoax, prompting PA to finally rescind.
Oh, god, THAT ONE! Yes, now I remember. For some reason, I had that mentally filed as Atlantis Nights, duh. (Probably due to the fantasy thing that provoked it.)
Yes…now that you mention it…
It’s one of my all time favorite publishing dumpster fires 🙂
“Flesher? I don’t even know ‘er!” seems even creepier…
I might be wrong but it seems the book has something in common with someone named Fletcher Summers.