The Price Of My POD Book Is Way Too High
My POD publisher just raised the price of my book but it’s way too high and I can’t sell it at this price. What can I do?
Gearing Up for the Holiday Season
At BookLocker, we’re smack dab in the middle of our busiest time of the year. Everybody, of course, wants their book published by Christmas. We usually get a book to market within a month so the last-minute authors are flooding us with their manuscripts right now. Shwew!!
FORCED MARRIAGE: When POD Publishers Take Your Money AND Your Rights By Angela Hoy, Publisher, BookLocker.com and WritersWeekly.com
A year ago, I published POD SECRETS REVEALED: You Pay…But THEY Own the Rights, an article exposing how many POD publishers charge authors for services, but then claim the rights to the materials the author paid them to create. Let’s face it. If an author pays hundreds to thousands to a company, and then can’t get copies of their production files to use elsewhere, how in the world can that author afford to move their book to another publisher if they’re unhappy?
Letters To The Editor For November 12th
WritersWeekly.com Always Pays on Acceptance
Thanks, Angela, for your quick response to my submission for Success Story and for the check, which already arrived!
Mail from Maine to Buffalo must be by Polar Express!
Glad to be able to ‘talk’ to your readers.
Lois Vidaver
How Offering a ‘Gift with Purchase’ Can Grow Your Freelance Writing Business By Patty Harder
I’m a sucker for a free gift with purchase. In fact, I wait to buy my favorite Lancome or Estee Lauder beauty products until it’s bonus time. And I usually stock up on things like socks when the buy-one-get-one-free (BOGO) specials come along. For freelance writers, this proven marketing tactic is a great way to get new clients – or revitalize an existing client relationship that’s gone cold.
The Art of Persistence By Alyssa Kagel
For most of my adult life, I’ve felt pulled in two career directions: renewable energy and freelance writing. Though my 9-to-5 job took me into the renewable energy world, I never gave up on my other passion. I sent pitches and articles all over town. On the good days, I received personal rejection notes. These, at least, were better than the generic “this isn’t quite right for us” or – even more prevalent – “no response” responses.
iPhone + Washing Machine = Uh Oh…
Richard bought me an iPhone for Mother’s Day months ago. I LOVE my iPhone! After dropping it numerous times on everything from the carpet to cement, I finally managed to kill it…by leaving it in my pocket one night. I realized it was missing the next morning and, after looking high and low, offered a reward to the child who could find it.
Author Sues Amazon/BookSurge Alleging Copyright Infringement
Author Thomas Rey Benjey filed a lawsuit against Amazon/BookSurge alleging copyright infringement.
Letters To The Editor For November 5th
This Week:
- WritersWeekly.com Pays on Acceptance
- 1st Place Winner – Fall ’08 24-Hour Short Story Contest
Get Your Money Up Front! I’m Glad I Did! By Debbie Elicksen
Books are my business. In the last seven to eight years, I’ve helped make people’s books come alive with manuscript editing, project managing books to print, graphic design and layout, and sometimes ghostwriting. So when a fellow member of an association – a friend – came to me to ask me to ghostwrite a manuscript, I didn’t turn him down.