You don’t know CTE either. Surely, you don’t think that Stan would be doing a TRUTH SERIES and a book without having totally solved the process.
Honestly, you’d look totally foolish at a table trying to explain CTE with Stan around.
Connie Shuffett
Book Finally Coming?
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You don’t know CTE either. Surely, you don’t think that Stan would be doing a TRUTH SERIES and a book without having totally solved the process.
Honestly, you’d look totally foolish at a table trying to explain CTE with Stan around.
Connie Shuffett
I read 4000 before the edit.
And I still don't know why they can't answer a simple question.
Is the book coming out this year or not ?
The difference is: Stan knows how CTE works and can explain the entire process. You can’t get to first base with it. As you know there will be a TRUTH SERIES and a book coming out.
When it’s all said and done the truth will be available for all to see and everyone will know that you were ignorant about CTE all along. Stan would essentially wipe the floor with you concerning CTE.
Connie Shuffett
I stated very clearly that editing is finished and that book design is occurring now. Stan does not know how long that will take. If Stan does not know how long the book design phase will last. What does that tell you?
When the book design phase is over, an actual publishing company will come into play. It’s one step at a time.
Connie Shuffett
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I wonder why a person serving on the staff who would have access to those numbers wouldn't want to publish the actual figures. The sales of similar information may be a good market indicator and may help determine book sale projections. On the other hand, if only 2 thousand videos were sold, and the information therein is and has been available to the public, selling a very expensive sequel in the form of a book may be challenging. To make matters worse, there are actually pool players out there who don't spend much time reading.
Maybe the delays in the publication of the tome are being caused, in part, by certain harsh, but realistic, economic realities. Without a publisher's advance, it would be fairly expensive to print and market a large document with diagrams, charts, and color pictures. So, maybe we won't be able to buy the book this year, but that's OK, Technical Manuals always put me to sleep anyway.
There have been no delays. The timeline involved for getting Stan’s book to this point is not atypical according to the company pros that Stan is working with.
Don’t worry about our money situation. We’re doing just fine. Hundreds of thousands, more likely a few million players, over time will view Stan’s free Truth Series. Thousands of books will sell, maybe tens of thousands. It is going to be a GLORIOUS time for CTE.
Connie Shuffett
It makes zero difference whether or not Stan thinks I don't know his version of CTE. I was simply pointing out that EVERY aiming method uses some sort of reference or references on either the ob or the cb or both. Anyone that understands what a "reference" is, in any context of the word, would agree that the basic quarters are ob references used for aiming. With Pro1 these reference points are labeled A, B, C, and Edge, and are used to obtain a certain "perception" based on the cb-ob relationship.
With manual CTE the offset pivot stems from the "perception", which means it is in "reference" to it, which means the perception is a reference. The player must reference the fixed ccb and perform either an inside or outside pivot from that fixed cb reference line. Pro1 one works the same way, but instead of manually pivoting you "sweep" into the shot. The sweep is in reference to the fixed cb perception.
Words have meanings. Coherent communication is lost when people start making up their own meanings to words, or when they ridiculously deny or ignore the meaning of a particular word because they don't want to associate that word with whatever it is they're doing. But reality is real.
The reference Stan is referring to is a reference that is seen as something to adjust to.
Pat Johnson’s implication is that CTE has references for adjustment when using center cue ball. Not so.
Reality is: You don’t know CTE. You can’t explain CTE. You can’t teach CTE.
You simply don’t know very much about CTE like you think you do. Stan’s Truth Series will prove that.
Connie Shuffett
In bold.... I know quite a bit about publishing companies. They do not offer advances unless they know they are going to make a profit. Instead, they offer "packages" to aspiring writers, requiring them to purchase X amount of books for X amount of dollars. This allows the publishing company to get their profit upfront, printing whatever quantity/package of books that the writer can afford. It's quite a bit different than submitting a book to a reputable/big-time publisher.
The best/larger publishing companies will do one of two things when you submit a manuscript -- reject it or publish it. If they reject it it's usually because they don't think they can make money from it. If they accept it then they believe they can make money by publishing your book, and it won't cost you anything but the postage you spent sending your manuscript to them. Smaller publishers with less capital to risk will typically publish anything as long you're willing to invest in one of their package deals.
This is why most pool books, since the market is so small, are either self published or handled by smaller publishers that require package purchases so they aren't risking anything. The pool and billiards market just doesn't have anywhere close to the sales found in the market for general fiction, mystery, thrillers, and romance novels. If you write a great novel, a good publisher will bend over backwards to print and sell it for you at no cost, even offering a nice advance for your next book.
Besides cost, it doesn't matter how your book gets published. If you want your work out there and available to the world, you can have a very nice quality book with about any publisher, or publish it yourself and use a quality print on demand (POD) service. With nonfiction, unless you've already had some success in writing, you are likely not going to land a nice contract with a major publishing company, which means you'll either have to buy a package deal or go with the self-publishing route.
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I understand. I just saw where Stan said there were no references Pro1, and that was just an unrealistic statement.
I can answer this one.... No one knows. Stan is paying a publisher for services. The book will be ready when they get it ready. Sort of like hiring a contractor to build a house, sny time you pay someone else to do the job you find yourself waiting around a lot for things to get done. But when it's finally finished, all the waiting was worth it.
I don't know Stan.
Tell us what is your best estimate when the book will be released .
And please, stop signing in as Connie.
People are playing along here while knowing it's you posting .
Dan,
Here it is Monday January 13, 2020 at about 2:30 in the morning. I've read all the posts in this thread and I've gotta tell ya' something smells real fishy. I can't put my finger on it, but something stinks. "Connie" really doesn't talk quite the way I've always thought a lady would talk. Kinda defensive. I can't see why Connie has anything to be defensive about. Of course, it does seem kind of odd that a "book signing" was being discussed over two years ago, but I guess everybody has the right to a little wishful thinking. But, you know, it's just a book about a table game, it's not like we're reconstructing the History of Western Civilization. And then there's the parts where it's all, "You don't this and you don't know that, and you will fail," and on and on. Seems like all that angry energy would be better spent working on the book.
And then all the talk about how small the pool book market is and how non-fiction books about rather obscure subjects are even less attractive to publishers, well, I don't know, things just seem fishy. And then all the talk about "thousands" and maybe even "10s of thousands"...golly, it just makes my head spin. And then Brian says that the author is having to pay a publisher to publish the book. And nobody will even tell Joey the actual date the book is going to be available. Well, I guess I'm just confused. Say, could you help make some sense out of all of this?
CTE PRO ONE is not a reference system as described by Pat Johnson. Pat uses the word reference as something that is referred to that leads to an adjustment for arriving at shot lines. There are no adjustments to any reference for finding shot lines in CTE PRO ONE.
Connie Shuffett
Believe what you want. I agreed to post for Stan for a few days. I told Stan a few months back that once the editing phase is complete that I would post for a few days only. My time here for now is about over. Stan wanted my help for tying up a few loose ends.
There is no estimate available for book release. It’s book design and then it’s all headed to a publishing company.
Connie Shuffett
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I have no idea if what you elluded to is correct, but I was thinking the same thing, "boy connie and stan sure have a similar posting style".
I like Stan too, but this was rather odd.
-Snookie, (Snooker Theory's girlfriend.)
For the most part I am simply copying what Stan writes in the note section of his I-Phone.
I inject as I feel like it according to the post.
We are right in the middle of what seems like round the clock remodeling of a few rooms in our home. I am very much out of routine and to be honest this posting gig has given me something to do to keep my mind off of being so bored from doing nothing. That’s about to change as I am going to reclaim my regular daily activities.
Connie Shuffett
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There were two DVDs with a few years in between them.
I think the first one came out around 2011. Somewhere along the line Stan did post how many copies he had made/sold (a few hundred?) and you could easily do the math to figure how much he made, though production and distribution costs were unknown. I don't recall exactly but the numbers were OK but huge.
Lou Figueroa
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