ROUTE66 VEHICLES BELOW... I am paying tribute to my vehicles in motion and employing their fanfare to expose a vast publishing industry scam that I discovered while marketing the novel SEVEN SKINS. After receiving numerous pamphlets for self-help books and lectures in response to literary queries, I decided to gamble with my own writing future to unveil a lucrative and public-disserving deception. By perpetuating the masses' perceived needs for their bogus services, those in the stoical publishing ranks are raking in the cash at the expense of hopeful and aspiring writers. They will not even look at a manuscript to determine its merit, unless you are willing to shell out a tidy sum for their pompous chatter. Should not the publishers be seeking-out and courting quality writers VS placing themselves on lofty Captain Dunsel pedestals??? This bloated and currupt system will only cease when writers wise-up and stop feeding a monster that is only self-serving.