COMMENTS ABOUT: WritersWeekly Investigative Reporter Goes Undercover to Investigate POD Publishers! by Brian Whiddon, a.k.a. “Secret Squirrel” Woo-hoo. Now THAT’S an investigative report. If that’s what comes from working on a sailboat, point me toward the water. – mctag2015 ~~~ I have worked with Booklocker on one small book, which, through no fault of theirs, […]
I received the following email from a reader last week: Hi Angela, I loved reading about your lovely weddings. Your family is not only successful, but is gorgeous too. We have a wedding to go to in Santa Cruz, CA this September – our daughter’s! I’m overjoyed with this. Any advice on staying “calm” is much appreciated. Love your […]
Dealing with a heavy editor is not only frustrating but it’s a process that can definitely hurt you as a writer as well. Writers already have to deal with insecurities the industry fills us with. We will read a book, a short story, a feature. We may feel down because another writer has written something at a level we believe we will never reach. We will hear about a six-figure author and disappointment will knock on our door, especially when we are dealing with a cash flow issue.
Let’s say I go with BookLocker instead. Everybody I know buys their books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon. If the paperback listed on Amazon is not POD-created by the Amazon subsidiary, who fulfills the order? Who notifies the POD publisher to print a copy, and who ships the copy to the buyer?
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.
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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.
