The house closing went off (almost) without a hitch and now we’re the proud new owners of…a house that looks MUCH worse without furniture in it. Ha ha. When we first saw the property (two times), it looked awesome.
After we closed on the house, we drove over to the now-empty home, walked in, and started poking around. It was FILTHY! Richard said, “Um, I think we paid too much.” 😉
Letters will return next week.
Any competent writer who puts himself or herself in the right place at the right time can achieve these essentially effortless results. Here are five ways you, too, can start making money at conferences instead of just spending it…
Do you feel there is high risk in replying to a blind ad with a Craigslist address?
When I was a young writer, I was impatient. Even the idea of immediate success took too long. Why should I have to wait? I had the passion. Words poured from me. What I did not have was the one thing time alone could give me: life experience. I wanted to be the next Great American Novelist, but I only had other people’s lives, ideas and words.
Apple, Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster – As promised, the federal government has sued them all for (alleged) ebook price fixing.
Copyright lawsuit to keep an eye on – Former Village People lead singer “is testing a 1976 law that lets creators regain U.S. copyrights to their works.”
Huffington Post – Ex-bloggers appeal ruling denying them payment…after they agreed to work for no pay.
HBO – “Files series of lawsuits in landmark intellectual property rights battle. Key script elements for ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ have been pirated and leaked by literary and textbook publishers.”
Barring unforeseen circumstances, we’re scheduled to close on our new house this Friday. In the last 12 years, I’d forgotten what a pain in the you-know-what it is to buy a house and we’re not planning on doing this ever again…
Thumbs up to your readers for saying something about Amazon’s policy of not letting authors reply to hecklers. We’re supposed to just put our work out there and let them take shots at us with no response at all.
I picked up one major heckler right away whom I feel is a member of one or two of the national writer’s groups and is ticked that I didn’t go the traditional literary agent route.
Well hello!!! I tried submitting to lit agents for (count them) 10-years and you, Angie, are the only person in the publishing biz who gave me a ray of hope. Just wait until they get a load of my second in series.
Kuddos lady!!
D.M. Simonds
ANGEL OF THE REALM
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Some authors shoot themselves and their publishers in the wallet with naivete about the book-reviewing industry. The problem is two-fold…
My manuscript is a humorous mystery and uses some of the local haunts in (my city). I don’t say anything bad about any of them.
It’s mainly the characters going to places like (a local restaurant), which is considered a local original. I explain why. Also, (a local diner). Everyone in the area where my heroine lives would know this place. They would also know that the bathroom is decorated with (a well-known cartoon character) accessories. This is mentioned in my manuscript. One character also works at a local charity, mentioned by name.
Is it okay to use them as long as I don’t show them in a bad light? Or, should I get them to sign something? If so, what?
