Does anybody else suffer from panic attacks, anxiety, some sort of social phobia?

Hi! I'm writing a manuscript about sparkly vampires spawned from even sparklier vampires....Can anyone suggest hard-up publishers who shamelessly murder legions of trees to print "literature" not worthy of lining my parrot's cage? Oh, and I'm 13, so no haterz, please.

Seriously, I have a complex about discarding books. A complex whose effects are psychologically similar to pouring perfectly good booze down a drain. It just cannot be done without disrupting the delicate balance of the Universe and/or my sanity.

I actually still have textbooks from my University days...Hell, an entire bookshelf holds only medical/science textbooks from those years. I love the tortuous reminder those volumes serve up every time I walk past them...the reminder that I spent years of my life and thousands of dollars of my money studying to be in a field that cannot even remotely be applied to my current profession, which seems so profoundly insignificant in comparison. As for what's at the top of the book pile by my bed....I believe it's either Kurt Vonnegut's "Jailbird" or "Postal: A Portrait of a Disgruntled Peon-The Institutional Years".

Or is the latter the autobiography I'm penning? I don't know. I've got to concentrate on my vampire novels for now.

Oh, and I have a Kindle, but you'll still have to pry my hardbacks from my cold, dead grip. Christ, I'm a loser.

I have the same problem; I've had to buy several bookshelves over the years to hold all the tomes I've collected, and now I've got several flat surfaces that are holding books - that shouldn't be holding books. I cannot get "rid" of a book - I think that there's no greater tragedy than a book being thrown in the garbage and end up in a landfill. The last book I tripped over was "Plato's Collected Dialogues," which was given to me by my philosophy professor a few years ago, the rest of the stack was mostly textbooks from the various courses I've taken.

I'm one of those people that just can't bear the thought of getting rid of a book - they're like friends, even if they're not very good.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.