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How much should i sell my 1/16 scale traxxas slash 4wd brushless for? hardly ever drive it. Would sell with upgraded battery and a charger i bought for $70 new. The car itself new is $250. any suggestions?

Depends on the condition.Where you putting it ebay?That’s your best bet.My Jato 3.3 is on the bay right now.So $250.00+$70.00=$320.00,figure on cutting that in 1/2 then ad $20 so set a reserve price at $180,start the bidding at $110 and see where it goes.See people don’t understand what they’re getting,they want to pay nothing.When us sellers are really taking a loss.If you’re not going the ebay route and selling it privately,like Craig’s list,or in the local paper,try and get as much as possible.If you take it to your local hobby shop it would be like me taking my real car,in my avatar as a trade in.They’d rob me.The hobby shop wants a % of what it sells for to advertise in their store.So i don’t suggest going that route.You can email me if you want,but i have sold some stuff on the bay,this might be the 2nd r/c car i’ll sell,IF the reserve is met,if not and the highest bidder comes 1/2 way close and i need the money,then i’ll email him/her and from there more bidding privately.Maybe let it go,maybe keep it.Hope i help but the general rule of thumb is,what you paid for it all,take that and 1/2 it,then ad a few dollars cause either way your gonna loose.

I saw the music video on 100 greatest hard rock songs and i cant remeber the name of the song but slash is playing a solo in the middle on nowhere infround of a church then they show him on a fake street corner? anyone know? thanks!

The fake street corner is probably from Come On, Come In.

I read fantasy books (not science fiction) and I’ve read sooo many I’m running out of good authors to read.
I’ve read all of Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Brett Weeks, David Eddings, and most other big authors.
Do you know any other good authors?

The line between sf and fantasy can be very thin.

Piers Anthony – sf, fantasy
Apprentice Adept series

Anne / Todd McCaffery – sf, fantansy
Acorna’s series
Pern series
Rowan and Damia series

Christine Feehan – romance, sf, fantasy

J.D. Robb – romance, mystery, sf, fantasy

Gordon R. Dickson – sf, fantasy
The dragon and the djinn
The dragon on the border

Witch World series by Andre Norton

Mercedes Lackey – sf, fantasy
Novels of Valdemar

i write YAFIC. books, and i would like to know the name of a company that publishes new authors. as well as books that are dodgey and use language. i know some companies but most of them only want clean books.

Most publishers also want people who know basic grammar and spell correctly.

Do you have an prior published material such as poems, short stories, etc?

You might want to look into submitting your work to literary journals first. However, you can pick up a copy of "Writer’s Market" (or you can go to the library and look at it there because it’s quite expensive.)

In that book you will find The names of publishers and editors and what they are looking for. http://www.writersmarket.com/

After you’ve browsed through the publishers…you have to learn how to write a great query letter/book proposal. Without one (and it has to be perfect) the editors won’t even consider you.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=book+proposals&x=0&y=0

I love romance books. Books like twilight, fallen, hush hush. Is there any books that you would recommend? Alot please:) <3

~The Immortals by Alyson Noel (the romance is a bit like twilight but there’s no vampires and werewolfs)
~The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld (at 16, everyone has plastic surgery to become "Pretties." Shay decides she doesn’t want the surgery, and runs away, pushing her best friend Tally into a world of chaos. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find Shay and bring her home, or never turn Pretty at all)
~Angelfire by Cortney Allison Moulton (a girl discovers that the monsters in her dreams are real, the girl, continuously reborn as a warrior to fight those monsters)
~Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini (a girl finds out she’s a modern-day helen of troy , she falls for a boy which could provoke a new Trogan war)
~The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones (after an accident, a girl finds out shes a lost fairy princess)
~Soul Screamer Series by Rachel Vincent (Kaylee Cavanaugh wants to be a normal schoolgirl but she possesses a strange power. She doesn’t see dead people, but she can sense when somebody nearby is about to die)
~Maximum Ride by James Patterson ( The series chronicles the lives of six fugitive kids,born in a laboratory , they endured scientific experiments that made them 98% human and 2% bird, they spend their time running from monsters)
~The Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot (Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That’s how she met the mysterious stranger who’s made returning to normal life—or at least life as she knew it before the accident—next to impossible.)
~Delirium by Lauren Oliver (a girl lives in a world where Love is a disease, at 18 she will have the cure to it and never have to worry about it ever again, but soon before her 18th birthday she falls in love)
~Divergent by Veronica Roth (where people choose which group of people to go with at 16, the daredevils, the selfless, the clever… some romance)
~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (It’s always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Then she meets Henry. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he’ll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.)
~The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (it’s complicated, but basically, these kids, shadowhunters fight demons … lots of romance …, REALLY GOOD!!)
~The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (probably hard to miss this one, but in case you have, each year a boy and girl are each chosen from 12 districts, they’re placed in an arena where they must fight to death)
~The Wolves Of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater (Grace has been watching the wolves outside her home every winter. She is drawn to one in particular that has stunning yellow eyes, and she’s certain that it is the same wolf who saved her from a pack of wolves who attacked her when she was a young girl.)
~Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (dark forces are gathering. Terrorist attacks, murders, strife, poverty. Three angels are sent to earth to help and go against darkness. Bethany the least experienced of the three, created a mere seventeen years ago, she is also the most connected to the human race.)
~Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber(The mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood empty for years. But one day it seems to be occupied, and its mysterious, handsome inhabitant Alexander Sterling becomes the source of much talk around town. Raven, a vampire-obsessed Goth-girl who has always considered herself an outsider in "Dullsville," is determined to uncover the truth surrounding the secretive Alexander.)
~Ripple by Mandy Hubbard (Lexi is cursed with a dark secret.She is a siren – a deadly mermaid destined to lure men to their watery deaths. After accidently drowning her boyfriend, Lexi shuts herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But she soon finds herself caught between a new boy at school)
~Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (After two years on the run, best friends Rose, half-human/half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal vampire princess, are caught and returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy)
~Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine (Michael Glass has a problem staying in his own home. The problem–he has odd hours and exists only at night but in the daytime he vanishes. No one knows where he goes.)

I’ve just finished reading The Pilo Family Circus and I’d love to read some more books set at a carnival or circus. Please no non-fiction and no romance books. Thanks.

well did you read "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn?

http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Love-Novel-Katherine-Dunn/dp/0375713344/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310859284&sr=1-1

So I’m 15 and I love to read! I like books when they have at least a sequel or more books to them. I just read The Boys next door and Endless summer, they were good. I also read the summer i turned pretty series which was my favorite. I need some more books to read! Any teen romance books in the summer would be perfect. (I’ve also read Twilight and liked it.) Thanks so much.

~The Immortals by Alyson Noel (the romance is a bit like twilight but there’s no vampires and werewolfs)
~The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld (at 16, everyone has plastic surgery to become "Pretties." Shay decides she doesn’t want the surgery, and runs away, pushing her best friend Tally into a world of chaos. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find Shay and bring her home, or never turn Pretty at all)
~Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (before a girl kills herself, she records thirteen tapes sending them to 13 people explaining why they played a part in her suicide )
~Delirium by Lauren Oliver (a girl lives in a world where Love is a disease, at 18 she will have the cure to it and never have to worry about it ever again, but soon before her 18th birthday she falls in love)
~The Mortal Instruments (it’s complicated, but basically, these kids, shadowhunters fight demons … lots of romance …, REALLY GOOD!!)
~The Hunger Games (probably hard to miss this one, but in case you have, each year a boy and girl are each chosen from 12 districts, they’re placed in an arena where they must fight to death)
~Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (This darkly romantic story features our heroine, Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, and super-alluring bad boy, Patch, now her deskmate in biology class. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephilim…)
~The Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot (Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That’s how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who’s made returning to normal life—or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident—next to impossible.)
~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (It’s always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Then she meets Henry. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he’ll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.)

I’ve noticed that certain people and blogs get video games early for free from various video game publishers. I would like to make a blog to review games. But what do I do in order to get games early from someone like Microsoft, Nintendo, or EA? Is there a place you register at?

there are only 2 ways to do this, they are either famous or have connections, for example with me my sister is a professional gamer and my aunt designed the game medal of honor so therefore i get a lot of video games "free" i can promise you that no company will just hand you a few new games for reviewing on a blog. in that case nothing would ever be new any joe could just ask for a game saying that he is a critic even though he is not. work your way up get people to notice you! start by reviewing games as they come out that’s when people want to know about them not before hand!

so Dr. house is right. No, for an ordinary person, i can guarantee you will find somebody with connections. in theory you know everyone in this world through six degrees of separation or less do some research on that.

I am writing a book about teenagers and young adults (primarily males) who commit terrible crimes: school shooters, serial killers, and mass murderers are some examples.

I am writing the book from the perspective of the psychological and sociological backgrounds of the perpetrators; this will not be a book detailing the crime itself; the thrust of the book is to understand why these men commit these crimes so that one can intervene and prevent others from doing so.

What publishers specialize in such books?

See if you can find a literary agent first, and then the agent will find a publisher for you. aaronline.org has a list of ethical agents, as does agentquery.com. If you can’t get an agent then there are some small publishers that take unsolicited manuscripts that publish non-fiction. I used to have a list of small publishers, but my computer went up in smoke, so I don’t have access to my bookmarks. You can also find a list of publishers at http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums under the Writer beware and background check section.