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rank 5458
word count 12100
date submitted 27.12.2009
date updated 28.12.2009
genres: Fiction, Comedy
classification: universal
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Neil & Stan: Sanities Collide

Erika Grace & Katrin Green

How do we recover after forcing ourselves to work? We laugh! Come join Neil and Stan, your everyday, baggage laden and dumped on worker.

 

Neil & Stan: Sanities Collide takes place when the recession is in full swing, housing market has hit the skids, stock market titters on the brink of recovery and people with jobs are clinging to their jobs like rats on a sinking ship. An unexpected collision of two neurotic nimrods who are “lucky” to find themselves among the employed sets the stage for a whirl wind day. Nimrods, Neil and Stan; unaware of each other’s existence are both driven to the brink of insanity before their worlds collide.


Neil & Stan, is 42,492 word count comedic quick read the first in a series, is set in Tampa, Florida, where the temperature is hot, the armpits are sweating and there is only so much air conditioning can do to cool down the day’s events. A unique quality of this book series is each character is written by a separate author.


The book will appeal to anyone who can relate to any or all of these categories:

Have a job? Lose a job?
Screwed by your boss? Dreamed of punching your boss?
Have a spouse? Divorced a spouse?
Encountered an ex-in-law? Like cats? Hate cats?
Drink coffee? Tried yoga?

 
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lionel25 wrote 796 days ago

Erika and Katrin, good job on the first chapter. I would modify the opening line slightly to remove unnecessary words: Stan wakes to the 5 a.m. noise of the Tuesday garbage truck as....

Happy to back this.

Joffrey (The Silver Spoon Effect)

B. J. Winters wrote 854 days ago

Interesting read -- I read your last uploaded chapter and found it amusing. One suggestion I might make would be to use "said" more. They yell, assert, blurt, speak loudly. A simple said would keep my focus on what's between the quotes. Good luck with this.

paxie wrote 860 days ago

Erika & Katrin
This is a quirky conversational read......If I'm honest ,I saw no real need for the bold, font change & caps.....Your narrative is powerful enough for me to appreciate when you are raising your writing voice...(if that makes sense).....

You say this is a frist series, so I assume you have more material......I read somewhere that fiction should run to a minimum of 100,000 words......I didnt pay much attention because I've rambled on a load of rubbish to the grand total of 128,000 words, so the article didnt interest me much,,,, and now, typically I cant remember where I saw it....Maybe you should look at smooshing series one & two together....

Anyway, I enjoyed the read, its for the beach, something I could pick up and put down at leisure....(same as mine)....

Best of luck....shelved with good wishes to you both for 2010.

John Harold McCoy wrote 865 days ago

Hi Erica and Katrin. First of all, I want to assure you the temp in Tampa is definitely not HOT. It is cold as hell here tonight. That being said, I love your book. Funny, entertaining and darn well written. I'm not sure how all the bold font will go over with agents. I've heard they don't like much formatting. Hope I'm wrong. I read 2 chapters. Good narrative, dialog is competent once you get into it. Probably too short for a novel but a very good piece of work nevertheless. Definitely worth backing. On my shelf and the best of luck with it.

John Harold McCoy - Bramwell Valley

Keefieboy wrote 867 days ago

Hi guys. I think you need to look at your pitch: titters -> teeters. Nimrods - I suspect I should know what that stands for, but actually I don't. 42.5K is way too short to make any kind of a book (even a novella is supposed to be 50K). The actual book - you have some good ideas but the writing lets them down - lots of run-on sentences and a fairly flat tone (ie it all happens on one level - no variation of tension - sorry, I can't express this better). Let me know if you do an update - I'd be very happy to take another look. Good luck.

Francis Albert McGrath wrote 868 days ago

Mmm... reads like the script for an Adam Sandler movie... I love the wit and dry cynicism. You don't need me to tell you this is good. Shelved.
Frank

buckman52 wrote 870 days ago

Erika and Katrin,
Would you care to swap reads? I'm going down the rungs here.
Lori Buckman (In Her Own Backyard)

Grace & Green wrote 871 days ago

Jared - Many thanks and your feedback is well-taken! The uniqueness refers to Katrin and I eaching taking a character in the story. Italics have been used for the hard copy - a screen translation issue. Agreed on the short and snappy. Best of luck to you!

I'm assuming "A unique quality of this book series is each character is written by a separate author," actually only refers to two authors - a different one for each chapter sounds a logistical nightmare! It's a relatively short book at just over 42,000 words, but that's acceptable for the comedy genre. I like the pitches, but I'd consider finishing the long pitch at "...worlds collide" - short and snappy.
I've read all your chapters with great enjoyment, this is very well written and seamlessly transfers between the different authors. I loved the "inner thoughts" and I'd make a tentative suggestion to differentiate them in a way other by enboldened text, perhaps italics would be better? It's only my opinion, and based on reading on a screen not on a page, but the bold text is too dominant.
No nit-picks at all, this is excellent and I wish you success.
Backed.
Jared.

Jared wrote 871 days ago

I'm assuming "A unique quality of this book series is each character is written by a separate author," actually only refers to two authors - a different one for each chapter sounds a logistical nightmare! It's a relatively short book at just over 42,000 words, but that's acceptable for the comedy genre. I like the pitches, but I'd consider finishing the long pitch at "...worlds collide" - short and snappy.
I've read all your chapters with great enjoyment, this is very well written and seamlessly transfers between the different authors. I loved the "inner thoughts" and I'd make a tentative suggestion to differentiate them in a way other by enboldened text, perhaps italics would be better? It's only my opinion, and based on reading on a screen not on a page, but the bold text is too dominant.
No nit-picks at all, this is excellent and I wish you success.
Backed.
Jared.

Grace & Green wrote 871 days ago

MANY thanks!!! Erika & Katrin

This is hilarious! Your ability to bring humor to daily-life situations is amazing, I think everyone would relate to this book. Backed. Christi.

Grace & Green wrote 871 days ago

MANY thanks!!! Erika & Katrin

This is hilarious! Your ability to bring humor to daily-life situations is amazing, I think everyone would relate to this book. Backed. Christi.

Grace & Green wrote 871 days ago

Thanks, Suzie! We really appreciate it. Best of luck!! Erika & Katrin

What an absolute HOOT! This is my kinda humor. Cheeky, funny as hell, and utterly believable.

I loved it, and BACKED it. Although it was damned difficult to typle whilst rolling on the floor laughing my skinny Aussie arse off.

Suzannah Burke.

You guys can call me Suzie.lol.

Grace & Green wrote 871 days ago

Thank you!! Erika & Katrin

Enjoying this immensely.
This is a riot. The humor is right up my ally.
The way you view the world is just a delight, really resonated with me.
Backed
T.L Tyson-Seeking Eleanor

T.L Tyson wrote 871 days ago

Enjoying this immensely.
This is a riot. The humor is right up my ally.
The way you view the world is just a delight, really resonated with me.
Backed
T.L Tyson-Seeking Eleanor

Suzannah Burke wrote 872 days ago

What an absolute HOOT! This is my kinda humor. Cheeky, funny as hell, and utterly believable.

I loved it, and BACKED it. Although it was damned difficult to typle whilst rolling on the floor laughing my skinny Aussie arse off.

Suzannah Burke.

You guys can call me Suzie.lol.

Andrew W. wrote 875 days ago

Sanities Collide

Hi Erika and Katrin,

You have a particular slantways view of the world that maximises the humour and the ongoing embolded rants are great fun, who hasn't wanted to shout out such thoughts as our days progress. An antidote to cynicism because it shrugs it off with a laugh, making everything seem so wonderfully ridiculous, very happy to support this book. Best wishes and good luck

Andrew W
(Sanctuary's Loss)

Christi Parker wrote 876 days ago

This is hilarious! Your ability to bring humor to daily-life situations is amazing, I think everyone would relate to this book. Backed. Christi.

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