Shark!
We got up at the crack of dawn, kissed Richard and Mason goodbye (that type of boating is not good for toddlers), and drove to the dock…
Don’t Invite a Lawsuit with Your Memoir By Angela Hoy
We recently received an angry email from a woman who claimed her father’s book, which we published, constituted a violation of her privacy…
Another Brave POD Publisher Tells Amazon How It’s Going Be!
I am a self-published author and owner of GungHo Pages, LLC, who recently signed on with Lightning Source POD services. I have been following the Amazon/BookSurge dilemma for a few months now, continually checking to see if my Buy Buttons are still intact. They are. So I am doing my best to keep myself up-to-date and carving out alternative avenues for distributing my books. I will stay with Amazon until they remove my Buy Button. But if and when they do, I will simply take my business elsewhere where it is more respected and appreciated…and perhaps post a few articles on the web about my not-so-positive experiences with the companies in question!
Signing out, ABCrane, author of The Tao of Mao: How Capitalist America and Communist China Paved the Way to Each Other
Want to Write a Travel Guidebook? By Barbara Hudgins
So you’ve decided to write a travel guidebook! Perhaps you are a travel writer with a sheaf of articles about your trip to Australia and you feel you have a good enough angle to support a full book. Perhaps you’re a travel editor who is fed up with the books coming across your desk since you feel none of them have really brought the reality of the place home. Or you could be an outdoor editor who notices there are more and more inquiries about mountain biking in your area but there is no guidebook on the subject. Of course you may not be a writer at all…
Plagiarism Questions
In my book, the protagonist will be a writer. I want to give this character some goofy stories to write about in the book. My questions is, if any of these “stories” are based on, say, urban legend or goofy news reports I’ve read, is using those stories for ideas considered plagiarism? I would of course NOT copy and paste anything or write anything verbatim, just get the idea from an existing urban legend or goofy news piece I may have read.
I Have Striped Feet!
This issue is a bit abbreviated because I took off a long weekend while Richard’s dad and step-mom were here and… now I’m paying the price. I am SO BEHIND! UG!!
Anyway, here’s what I did in the past week…
Vacation
Letters will return next week.
Writing Green to Make the Green By Susan Sundwall
Even though the calendar says its spring, I’m sitting here at my keyboard next to a window watching the snow come down
That Never-Ending “Amazon.com Best Seller” Crud
Hi Angela!
Following is an email announcement that I received today. (Name removed) has been around for quite some time, and while he has done these special promotions to buy his latest book from Amazon on a designated day, this one is the most elaborate “giveaway” plan.
I’m curious what your take is on his methods.
Discipline: The Key to Success by Angela Dion
I dreamt of being a writer since I was a kid in junior high school. I was really into Agatha Christie at the time and fantasized about my best-selling mystery novel being featured in The Washington Post’s Book World. I even had a pen name picked out, Angie Gold. Eventually real life kicked in. The dream faded, but I kept writing…