I am a short story writer, and am putting together a website to market my stories — at a rate of one new story per month. I have the ‘store’ set up with PayPal and my ‘merchandising’ platform close to being ready. However, a self-published author has told me that I need to get each story published through a ‘real’ publishing house, ISBN number, the works, in order to protect that story. Is this true?
It’s a sunny, warm day and I am eager to try out an ingenious idea for promoting my book…if only I don’t get arrested…
We are getting VERY excited about our upcoming fall trip to Tennessee! We’ll be gone for about 10 days and the cabin we found is not only very affordable but also has all 3 of our requirements…
At BookLocker.com, we have always provided authors with free copies of their ebooks. It costs us nothing to send the author a copy of their own ebook so why in the world would we charge them to do so? If an author writes in asking for a copy of their ebook, we send it to them – with a smile.
I have no idea what justification other publishers have for charging authors for copies of their own files but there is no shortage of those that do!
This week:
Document conversion, rewriting and reformatting documents to make them suitable for different media, can be a useful source of income for freelancers.
If I copyright a book and that book changes (editing, or something like that) after the copyright is issued is the copyright still valid?
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…
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…
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…
