I recently heard from “Foreword Digital Reviews” that our book won’t be reviewed by ForeWord Magazine since they only have space for a few book reviews…but that there’s plenty of room at Foreword Digital Reviews on-line. Their fee for writing and posting the review is $99.00.
What are your thoughts on this?
The strategy of doing live events in order to sell stuff has been around for hundreds of years. However, I recently experienced it with a slightly twist that definitely helped my bottom line. What was the twist? Simply this: back-to-back events.
Our daughter and her boyfriend were in a head-on collision on Monday night. They are expected to recover but we have been in the hospital with them all week. I have changed their names below for their own privacy.
Early Monday morning, our dog, Percy, started screaming. Ali and I both heard the racket and followed his yelps to the boys’ room…
When authors are researching POD publishers, they often just look at the setup fees, glance at the royalties (not knowing what they’re a percentage of), and go from there. Unfortunately, they don’t always think about asking what the list price of their book will be, don’t understand how the royalty structure works or when royalties will be paid, and don’t always ask how much they’ll have to pay for copies they purchase themselves after the book is ready to sell…
This week:
There is a tried and true maxim in the SCUBA diving community: “Plan your dive, and dive your plan.” This sage piece of advice is also applicable to our community of authors…
For years, I’ve been dealing with the editor of a pub. who has always paid me. Sometimes, she needs to be politely “reminded”, but things have worked out in pretty timely fashion. In Nov., she published my work and I got paid. In December, the trouble started. She published my article for her Dec. issue, and even emailed me telling me around Dec. 13 that the issues/payment were being sent, which is actually early for her, as she usually pays late in the month.
I got nothing from her, and didn’t get any email replies over Christmastime. Right after New Years, she emailed me saying it would be taken care of. Nothing, and she didn’t respond to my emails after about a week of waiting. I called her on January 12. She was nice and again said she would take care of the payment. Nothing again. I called her again on January 20, and she took my call and acted “surprised” that I’ve gotten nothing yet, claiming to have sent it Priority Mail, and again said she’d take care of it last week…
My success writing short non-fiction articles for the true confessions magazines began several years ago when I was studying magazines at a bookstore, searching for potential money-making markets, and picked up a copy of TRUE CONFESSIONS. One of the short columns inside, “The Life I Live”, caught my attention. I read it, and thought, ‘I can do that!’ But it was the sidebar that really caught my eye. Wow! They were offering $100 for 500 words or less about an inspirational time in your life. I’d had plenty of inspirational times in my life…
Poor Zach (age 24) developed a toothache last week. We took him to our dentist, who said all his wisdom teeth needed to come out…
