I don't really care. But I do think that people that buy little plastic toys that transform into cars and animals an such, or guys that watch anime and read magna all the time shouldn't be so quick to throw geek stones at other people.
But I'm not going to come in here and say "Oh god I was so lame back then! I wish I had never done that. Yuck, what was I thinking?" It was a good start for me. I probably wouldn't be working my ass off now trying to get my pitch out by Christmas, if I hadn’t done that. I mean I spend two or three days a week in the library doing research, another two-three actually writing and then rest of my free time I'm either working on other projects(I've got a children's book series, a more "Sci-Fi" Sci-Fi book, and a collection of short ghost stories as well as the 9 books in the series I'm currently working on) or trying to establish a look for things. I've even been in talks with a local artist to do some paintings to help sell the thing. And I hopefully by this time next year I'll have a publisher...and I wouldn't be doing any of this if I hadn't done that right there. It's hokey...I know, and I don’t do it anymore. But I won't knock it either.