Letters To The Editor For October 5th
This week:
- Top Signs a Book is Self-Published
- WARM FUZZIES
Document Conversion Provides Freelance Income Opportunities By John K. Borchardt
Document conversion, rewriting and reformatting documents to make them suitable for different media, can be a useful source of income for freelancers.
Do I Need to Re-Register a Copyright for a Revised Book? Maybe…
If I copyright a book and that book changes (editing, or something like that) after the copyright is issued is the copyright still valid?
Make Your Research Work for You – Over and Over Again By Jill Pertler
One of the best parts about being a freelance writer (besides seeing your words in print) is learning about new topics. I enjoy researching a subject and becoming enough of an expert to be able to write about it…
I Miss Fall…
We moved to Florida and we LOVE it here. Problem is…fall is my favorite season and we’re pretty sure leaves on palm and coconut trees don’t turn red, yellow and orange. I read online that the mountains in Tennessee have beautiful fall foliage in October so we’re planning a road trip there next month…
Top Signs a Book is Self-Published
As you can see from our “World’s Worst Book Proposals” series, there are plenty of really bad books being shopped to publishers and, unfortunately, most Print on Demand (POD) publishers will print anything and everything just to get an author’s money…
Letters To The Editor For September 28th
Letters will return next week.
Does Ingram Distribution Mean Bookstores Will Stock My Book? No!
I am still a little confused about the distribution through Ingram. So, does that mean we’re guaranteed to at least have a few books in the bookstores Ingram works with? Or, does it depend on how many copies the bookstores want to order from Ingram?
My Success with Balancing Book Writing By Dorit Sasson
With three book projects, family obligations and teaching, I needed a system to account for my time and maintain productivity. Lately, I’ve been experiencing a lot success implementing these ideas…
The Magic Kingdom was NOT the Happiest Place on Earth!
Let me preface this by saying I am NOT a fan of amusement parks. A few years ago, we visited Six Flags in Chicago on a day when it was 112 degrees. Frank started vomiting almost immediately when we arrived and, of course, Six Flags would not give us a refund. We were out more than $300 and Frank was suffering pretty badly. He recovered very quickly once we left so we suspected it was the intense heat. On that day, I vowed to avoid amusement parks at all costs in the future.
Despite my vow, I reluctantly told Richard we could visit Disney World at least once when we moved to Florida…