This will be a broad-band reply for all your questions.
When I first turned to Wicca, the head honcho for books was Llewellyn. And I didn't need an agent EVER with them. So that's where the manuscript for Victorian Grimoire landed, with a very speedy response (shocked me). There are (and were) still some small companies where you don't have to have an agent.
Now, eventually I did get one, which is how I got into Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, and Penguin. I kept in touch with editors and managed to swing some contracts on my own. 
Eventually I left my agent as she kept keeping me in a small box. I wanted to do mainstream, and I got a gig with the Everything Book line for a Canning and Preserving book, followed by a barbecue book.
Before heavy internet access, I simply ordered a ton of research books that I felt were useful in different ways. I have several of them still.
Victorian Grimoire was my first born lol. Here's a link that will show you some of the books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Patricia-Telesco/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3APatricia+Telesco
I also have a pen name: Marian Singer: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Wicca-Witchcraft-Marian-Singer/dp/1580627250/ref=sr_1_4?crid=H7BZGAT3F618&keywords=marian+singer+books&qid=1682110396&s=books&sprefix=marian+singer+books%2Cstripbooks%2C108&sr=1-4
https://www.amazon.com/Witchs-10-Commandments-Magickal-Guidelines/dp/1593375042/ref=sr_1_5?crid=H7BZGAT3F618&keywords=marian+singer+books&qid=1682110396&s=books&sprefix=marian+singer+books%2Cstripbooks%2C108&sr=1-5 
https://www.amazon.com/Magick-Wild-Woman-Sassy-Spellbook/dp/1593370946/ref=sr_1_6?crid=H7BZGAT3F618&keywords=marian+singer+books&qid=1682110396&s=books&sprefix=marian+singer+books%2Cstripbooks%2C108&sr=1-6 
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Birthday-Personology-Book-Relationships/dp/1593377266/ref=sr_1_7?crid=H7BZGAT3F618&keywords=marian+singer+books&qid=1682110396&s=books&sprefix=marian+singer+books%2Cstripbooks%2C108&sr=1-7
Well you get the idea. 
I was the lead moderator for a team of 5 for all of the MSNBCi boards. For ghost writing I have an NDE, perfectly standard. 
I have a profile on UpWork where you bid on projects. I get .06 per word which is on the high end for everyday stuff. So, writers will never be wealthy (giggle).
Hubby is doing his PT and hopefully getting some changes in his meds. Will be seeing him tomorrow.


 

WOW It was a limited edition and now out of print. However I found one used for $7
 

Hilariously, Mongo’s Wordle obsession CONTINUES…lol

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Worm took 5 and schizo took 4.

[And Mongo’s obsession continued…lol]

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on April 22, 2023, 12:02 pm, in reply to "Thayt Mondo, he don't kno no nuthin 'bout no Wurdill. "

And they play this silly game in a circle jerk every day, and schizo giddily wants to see everyone's solution and gushes over everyone's "pwotheth".

[A silly game’ you’re now playing and bragging about your own ‘pwoweth’ at?  lol]

Wouldn't you know that worm claims that I cheated and copied his solution, but my post here was an hour before his post.

[I ASKED whether you might have cheated.]

The blew nerds think Wordle is an elite game only for their illuminati. Actually it is an ordinary pedestrian guessing game for idle leftwing minds who hang out day and night chatting about absolutely nothing.

[No one here thinks it’s an ‘electric game.’  To us it’s fun - to YOU it’s a childish,
spite-based obsession.]

Then, their little back-stabbing buddy on yaller deletes my wordle posts.

[Because they’re about other boards, dumbass]

Meanwhile, the diabolical dialog continues in Crack Alley... up to 44 pages and thousands of vengeful posts all because I kicked their abusive asses off my board years ago. Worm couldn't last 2 days on Serious without violating the rules several times, then he continues to whine about being banned after he said he would never be back. LOL

[Same ol’ tired lies, just like you’d hear from his fave wet-dream politico Trump.  Also, I LEFT ‘Serious’ because he abused Sia elsewhere.  He then said I could come back if I wanted.  Then he reversed course and hysterically banned me, probably because of a critical post on this, his favorite board.]

Worm is banned on every board because he is incorrigible and cannot control his pugilistic foul mouth. Even smart folks on Blew and Crack Alley avoid him.

[You banned me twice after twice inviting me on your pointless, smelly boards.  I’ll admit- fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.  You’re simply a scumbag by nature.]

Now, schizo and her Boy-Toy have set up Crack Alley II, where they engage in inseparable, exclusive "krinimal konservashun.”

[Huh??? Have you been hitting the bourbon early?]

Pathetic.

[Why yes it is, old boy!  Pathetic and yet somehow comical…lol]
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Remember a couple months ago when he said he was done with us and wouldn’t be over here or say ANYTHING about us again, ever, on White Whine?  Yeah, me too…lol.

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Mongo is a LIAR because his board is an hour BEHIND ours using CT.  We use EST.  You posted at 9:59am and HE posted at what would be OUR 10:11am, (his 9:11am).  So he posted it AFTER you posted your spoiler.

Does that mean that he copied you?  Well, no, it's not PROOF, but it sure as hell is suspicious and highly LIKELY that he used your spoiler to play his game since he OBVIOUSLY peeked in AND LIED about what time he posted it.  It's right there for anyone to see for themselves that he posted it AFTER YOU.

He's already proven that he doesn't really know how to play given his accusation that I somehow cheated for playing according to completely normal standards.
 

Siagiah wrote:

I guess mongo doesn't know that you will be returning to the Yellow board in a few months? No doubt, he'll have gotten HIMSELF banned for the rest of the year by then.  LOL

He’ll DNR me whenever I show up, you may be sure.  He can’t stand the thought of posting with his critics, although it’s not like I’d make a point of posting to HIM.

He’s over there right now picking at one of Merlin’s posts like a vulture at roadkill.  Odious person.

That's pretty damned pathetic!  Did you see where he LIED about posting his stupid "wordle" an hour before you?  He posted it 12 minutes AFTER you.

He claimed he got it in ONE once. Suuuuuuure he did.  He'd be crowing all over town if that happened! But what he doesn't realize that THAT would be considered SH*T LUCK because it would be purely a LUCKY GUESS since it would involve ZERO skill. 

He's just a JOKE.
 

I got Wordle-Unlimited in ONE with RAISE once but, LYS, pure luck.

What mongo doesn't seem to recognize is that EVERYTHING posted against him here has been the result of HIM posting something against us, our board, or our friends FIRST.

I have never started something with him.  I'd just as soon never see or hear from or about him again.
 

More evidence of the Crazy Old Man’s illness and hatred:

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They will continue their insane nasty drivel until they pass away.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on April 23, 2023, 1:24 pm, in reply to "Let's review"

You don't seem to understand that they post hundreds of more times about me than I post about them. The quantitative imbalance should be your first clue that they are and have always been the prime instigators.

You might think you have acted in my behalf, but I don't think you have the courage to stand up to them and tell them to stop and to delete Crack Alley. It wouldn't work anyway. greenman would curse you out just like he has done to Poppet and others over the decades. They can't stop. Sia is a very sick, bitter woman, and greenman feeds her sickness by acting in the demonic role of an Iago. They thrive on hate.

So, no point in preaching to the choir over here. Two months ago, I deleted every post here that mentioned any of them, and the abuse continued over there steadily. How do you explain that? You can't.

There's no way you can excuse greenman's outrageous behavior. Nobody is "taunting" him ... he is banned everywhere, and nobody talks to him except a very few on blue. Poppet pushed him away recently. She is the only one on blue who asserts her independence ... everyone else is dominated by Sia.

I still don't understand why brilliant people like Poppet and Pikes would want to hang with that crowd.

Oh, well, it is what it is. There will be no end to the vitriolic diatribes over in Crack Alley. They are addicted to spite and hate, and there is no cure.

In the meantime, enjoy deleting my posts on the yellow board. It seems to be in gradual decline, propped up only by Merlin's NYT fetish and jb's Mobiusian drivel.
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Not just about myself or Sia this time, the COM has decided to attack others on R & E (just as GOG was doing with Ken’s ‘Universe’ board today, I noticed - lack of sympathy for his crazy notions about Mars and the Moon).

The two biggest problems on R&E are of course Mongo and GOG and their spamming, trolling, and personal attacks on others (notably Merlin).  But as masters of projection, of course they see it as everyone else’s fault, especially Sia’s (and to a lesser extent mine) who is to them the sinister ‘Deep State’ behind all their supposed board ‘problems.’

Such is mental illness.  I urge them both to seek help for their obsessive hatred and misbehavior on Boardhost.  I’ve certainly never been subjected to online behavior like theirs, even on the most contentious political boards I’ve ever posted on.  I’ve never been stalked and harassed like that elsewhere.

It’s shocking too how many supposedly religious posters on these boards go along with Mongo’s politics and behavior.  Like they do Trump’s, you could say..another similarity between those two.

Some are desperate for conversation.
Like the self quarantined Martian jab hermit,
experts on conspiracy theories,
the bahai zealot,
the badminton game between times and crimes...

MOTU was once interesting.
It suffered the same demise at the same hands
dominating discussion where possible, desperate for conversation.
The guppy in a bowl grew beyond big fish in a pond to dead whale in a puddle. 

We all kinda knew he’d come back to it and keep taking potshots at this board, though, didn’t we?

He simply cannot tolerate criticism.  Anywhere, anytime, by anyone.

Sadly the same old behavior and attitude not only prevail, but do so apparently unchanged.
Obsession with disapproval of what others post combined with frequent if not constant disparagement, criticism, and attempts of oneupmanship is no incentive to engage or respond.  

More stupid s—t on White Whine:

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Schizo's Gaffe of the Day, 04/26/2023. - Mondo Fuego™ April 26, 2023, 1:14 pm

Some think schizo is a really nice person - Mondo Fuego™ April 26, 2023, 1:39 pm

worm's Gaffe of the Day, 04/26/2023. - Mondo Fuego™ April 26, 2023, 1:24 pm
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I haven’t (and won’t) read any of these idiocies, but it’s clear that the sick obsession continues…again without further provocation.

But of course this will be construed as some sort of ‘provocation’ by Mongo Flatulento..

Last edited by greenman (4/26/2023 2:34 pm)

How about Maximo Pretentioso A—holio? lol

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Only a few here do.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on April 26, 2023, 2:44 pm, in reply to "I don't know much about guns."

Sprout, Poppet, Mondo.

Anyone else?

Grew up on 425-acre farm.

Learned immense respect for livestock, land, crops, machinery, history and culture, firearms, education, religion, and some people who deserve respect.

[Anyone who kisses your butt, right?]

Lived in Cleveland, Ohio 15 years, land of diversity. 100,000 of almost every Indo-European nation. Friends from Italy, Poland, Serbia, Armenia, Latvia, Hungary ...

[You’ve had friends?  lol]

Inclusion? Married by Black Bishop & wife; the 4 of us have dinner regularly. Thanksgiving Dinner with Black friends.

[‘Some if my best friends…’]

Very discerning.

No respect for idiots.

[A lack of self-respect, then?  lol]

Back to guns. I view them like any other sculpture. They are part of human history and culture. Not real big on hunting any more ... too costly. My last Elk hunt in north-central Colorado proved to be a bust. Too warm, no elk. Caught one nice Rainbow Trout ... attributable cost: $4,000.

[Sort of a humble brag. Did you stiff the ‘native guides’ their tip because they didn’t provide an elk?]
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I only thank whatever gods there be that this assclown no longer lives in Ohio…lol

Last edited by greenman (4/26/2023 6:03 pm)