Letters To The Editor For June 18th
This Week:
- How Many Bookmarks and Personalized Pencils Make a Best Seller? None!!
- The Amazon / BookSurge Lawsuit
Braving the Adventure Markets By Lisa M. Maloney
You don’t have to defy death to write adventure stories. Here are a few suggestions to get you in – I mean out – the door and on your way.
From Dreaming to Dollars: 30 Days to Freelance Success By Sharon McElwee
For years, I dreamed of becoming a writer. The hope that somehow, someday, I’d break into the business led to thousands of dollars spent on classes, market listings and books, hoping that I would find the secret to others’ success.
No Colon Diagnosis Yet
I want to thank everyone who wrote in last week with ideas about what might be wrong with my colon. I would particularly like to thank (snicker) the people who wrote in with graphic details about colonoscopies. Uh, thanks.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a diagnosis yet…
How Many Bookmarks And Personalized Pencils Make A Best Seller? None!!
Yesterday, after work, while flipping through the mail, you find a postcard from Author Anne. It’s a pretty postcard. It shows her book cover on one side, and has a brief description of the book on the other. But, you receive marketing postcards everyday…and you can’t pick up the book and thumb through it. You’re not online right now so you can’t click to read more about the book. You leave it on the counter and forget about it. Later, you use it to push some crumbs into the sink and then you throw it away.
Letters To The Editor For June 11th
This Week:
- Amazon/BookSurge Class Action Lawsuit
NEW SALES FOR AN OLD BOOK: How to Breathe Life into Your Book By Mara Reid Rogers
“I just sent your Press Release out to over 500 Editors by email a couple of minutes ago. Within three minutes of doing so, I have been getting requests for review copies every minute since.”
Wouldn’t any Author LOVE to hear those words? And those words from a BIG Publisher? Yes! Any Author would. And I did, just last week.
That “Extra Stuff” POD Publishers Charge You For…
I’m researching POD publishers but I’m confused about all the extras. How important is all that extra stuff they want you to buy?
Free Classified Ads Always On Call By Christine Cristiano
As an active freelance writer, I make it a point to google my name on a regular basis to ensure that my work is not appearing on websites that are not authorized to use it. On one such occasion, I came across a classified ad that was selling copies of my children
Another Vacation Emergency Room Trip (sigh)…
On our last big trip, we ended up going to the emergency room twice, once for Max having a bad stomach virus, and then after Frank ran a golf cart into an electric fence while herding cows.
We’d been on the road for seven weeks for our recent trip and it looked like we were going to get lucky on this one. Unfortunately, we couldn’t avoid it…