Carus Publishing Company / Cricket Magazine / cricketmag.com – Writer alleges she’s owed $75.00.
Cobblestone / Carus Publishing / cobblestonepub.com – Hope Clark at FundsForWriters.net is owed money; claims others are as well.
Our holiday was incredibly grand and we sure didn’t like seeing it end! We had friends, family, games, snow, too much Christmas candy and much, much more! As I write this, I can still hear the Christmas wreath outside, tapping against the window in the wind. I need to remember to ask Frank to take those down. While he’s at it, he’ll also take down the outside lights. I’m ashamed to admit those are still up, too!
I’m noticing a disturbing trend. At least once a week now, I’m contacted by an author who is seeking a self-publisher that actively markets their book for them…for free.
Hi Angela,
I just want to drop you a note about an article I read. It is by Melissa Mayntz, and about writing resolutions, which I am keeping a copy for future reference. I thought it was great and I’m going to use it to remind myself who I am and what I do! Just a thank you and kudos to the author.
Sincerely,
Ang Dee
As a writer, I am constantly barraged by Internet advice on how to market your book. Unfortunately, most of the suggestions are geared to non-fiction. Many also urge me to “research the market” to find the perfect subject.
I dismiss – and delete – these ideas as NA: not applicable. They hold no interest for me. Nor would they be of any value.
A local publication owes me $325 and change for several stories of mine it published in October and November (originally scheduled for September, but they cancelled that issue). Over the past six weeks I’ve received probably a half-dozen promises that payment was forthcoming (“at the end of the week”, “next week”, “overnight by Friday”, etc.). Finally, after much frustrated follow-up, I received an e-mail from the publisher saying that advertising has been slow (which I knew), he is owed a lot of money by advertisers, he hasn’t taken payment himself in three months and he hopes things will be better after the new year.
I’m sympathetic, but this doesn’t change the fact that I’m owed money for work I did at his request more than three months ago – and a portion of what I’m owed is even repayment for an expense I incurred at his request.
Do you have any tips for squeezing blood out of a turnip, as it were? What is my recourse? Is there any binding way for me to make sure that when money does come in to him, he pays me before he pays expenses for a next issue?
One not-so-ordinary day, I opened my email to find a request that I write an abbreviated cookbook proposal for a book packager. The book packager planned to use the proposal to attract a publisher; if the cookbook was a go, I was promised the job of writing it.
I had not pitched this idea, nor had I ever worked for this company. I wasn’t even clear on what a book packager did.
What was so extraordinary was that the company found me – online.
Bert Ramos / Washoe Family Magazine / washoefamily.org / “published in partnership with the Washoe County School District” – Writer alleges she’s owed $150.00.
