We had an uncomfortable situation arise at BookLocker.com this week. Read what happened below and, if you have any input or an opinion about this situation, please share your wisdom in the comments section below.
Question for 07/21/2016: According to last week’s issue of WritersWeekly.com, how long is our new employee’s boat? Send your answer through the contact form here. You must be a WritersWeekly.com subscriber to participate in the weekly contests. Subscribe (it’s free!). NOTE: ONLY ONE WINNER PER HOUSEHOLD PER CALENDAR QUARTER, PLEASE. THIS WEEK’S PRIZE: A free […]
GUEST POST FROM BRIAN WHIDDON Brian Whiddon, the new Operations Manager at WritersWeekly.com and BookLocker.com, recently went undercover to try to get some hard-to-find answers from some POD publishers. We think you’ll enjoy some chuckles while reading about his experience! At BookLocker, we have a specific set of standards for vetting manuscripts. Unfortunately, not every […]
NBC war correspondent gets $260K in damage for defamation Arthur Kent collects $260K from Postmedia following defamation lawsuit In the column, Kent was described as having an oversized ego and an unorganized and incompetent campaign. Aaaaaand, he deserves it! Gawker Media founder faces personal bankruptcy “Gawker Media LLC founder Nick Denton faces personal bankruptcy after […]
Several years ago, our daughter, Ali, an adorable red-head with freckles, was bullied relentlessly in middle school. After several meetings with school employees, they decided that the solution to the lunchtime bullying was to isolate our daughter in a classroom by herself to eat her lunch. They didn’t offer to “isolate” the bullies. So, our […]
One of the greatest accomplishments of my freelancing career was landing a $50,000 book editing deal less than 18 months in. Bear in mind that up to this point most of my experience with editing had been quite small in comparison. I had looked over a couple of people’s academic papers and edited my own master’s thesis. But I had never handled a project of this size.
Booklocker’s “90+ Days…” marketing book has everything in it a motivated author needs to get the ball rolling, and keeping it spinning. I used the copy I received with my first novel in 2012, and the revised version with the newest novel that published this year.
Let me save you a little time on your freelance road trip and bring you closer to a profitable writing career by sharing the common wisdom that didn’t work for me — and what eventually did.
What are the two or three (or more) resources you would recommend as absolutely essential to a self-publishing novelist?
Question for 07/14/2016: According to last week’s issue of WritersWeekly.com, who earned an extra $15K last year selling family secrets? Send your answer through the contact form here. You must be a WritersWeekly.com subscriber to participate in the weekly contests. Subscribe (it’s free!). NOTE: ONLY ONE WINNER PER HOUSEHOLD PER CALENDAR QUARTER, PLEASE. THIS WEEK’S […]
