As I wrote last week, cleaning out every room and closet in the house, and getting rid of so much stuff, has been incredibly therapeutic. However, I had no idea how good it would feel to watch complete strangers walk away with our old stuff, and have them all hand us money for it to boot!
While we’re busy moving over the next three weeks, Angela will be updating her most popular columns.
Is customer service and fulfillment devouring your writing and marketing time? At BookLocker.com, we are frequently approached by authors who are weary of all the problems they’ve encountered while trying to sell their books themselves. While they started out wanting to write for a living, they now find they’re spending most of their time on website repairs and upgrades, customer service, troubleshooting, fulfillment, and even dealing with credit card fraud and bounced checks.
Letters will return next week.
When I was in high school I took a creative writing class. We were taught there were always to be two spaces after a period. I have noticed that is no longer the case, My blog site even adjusts my two spaces down to one. When did the rules change?
For a few years, I’ve had a really great idea for a children’s book. It was one of those ideas that wouldn’t leave me alone. It kept me awake at night, just begging me to write it. So although I wasn’t a children’s writer, I knew this idea was too good to ignore…
Esquire Magazine – Sued for defamation by World News Daily.
Hustler – Loses lawsuit filed by family of woman who was murdered. Hustler published nude pictures of her after the high-profile murder.
Key Porter Books – Author uses Twitter to air her grievances about this publisher, saying they owe her $9K.
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I’m not very popular at the “home office” right now. I told all the kids and Richard that, when we move to Florida, we are NOT moving all that food from the pantry. We are eating it before we leave. That also means no pizza delivery. Each night since then has been “fend for yourself night” at dinnertime and the pantry has gotten so depleted that we actually needed to go to the store yesterday…
Letters will return next week.
When a fellow writer first encouraged me to apply for a grant from our state sponsored arts council to fund a trip to a writer’s conference, I thought she was nuts. But when she told me that she’d used artist grant funds to finance two different trips to out-of-state conferences already, I started paying attention, and asking questions…
In Googling myself today, I ran across a website called download-free-ebooks.net and I see that all 10 of my books are available for free as a PDF file to anyone who wants to download them. Is this legal? This strikes me as piracy. Do I have any recourse? Should I even worry about it?
