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- Joined
- Mar 30, 2005
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- 55
- Location
- New England
- Website
- www.chippewapublishing.com
Makes this Google search kinda puzzling, eh?Clue for the day- no one just 'distributes' books to bookstores. . . .
I am still amazed at the number of people who still send their books to PA. I try my best to discourage anyone around here to not do that. I must agree though that it takes awhile to edit your book and you still miss something.
When My book was released I didn't have much money to work with, so I had to use all the free stuff online. I was seeing progress, but not like I wanted. I finally realized that I needed a .com website. So many of the search engines will not work with a free website. I, now, have my new site up and running, but I am still having to surf for credits. I'm willing to pay for traffic as soon as I find the right service. Right now I am using trafficg.com and clicksnmore.com for traffic credits. With these I have had 26,000 hits on my free website in the last 8 months. I have had 500 in a week on my new site. I am still trying to get either Oprah, Ellen, or Dr. Phil to give me a plug.
I have had 15 poems published by The International Society of Poets in various anthologies and collections. I have, also, had* 5 that were put on cd.
From the PAMB http://bb.publishamerica.com/viewtopic.php?t=19940:
. . . and from the above poster's website:
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So, if someone believes the International Library of Poetry (aka The International Society of Poets) is legit, one will believe PA is legit, and that it's worth it to pay to get traffic to one's website, etc. And of course, Oprah is gonna call any minute now. . . . Just the sort of person PA is looking for!
It is amazing what some will believe. (Sigh)
http://windpub.com/literary.scams/D-Barry.htmSo, if someone believes the International Library of Poetry (aka The International Society of Poets) is legit, one will believe PA is legit, and that it's worth it to pay to get traffic to one's website, etc. It is amazing what some will believe. (Sigh)
http://windpub.com/literary.scams/D-Barry.htm
Funny Dave Barry article on the poetry scam.
I wish he would do one on the PA scam too.
Makes this Google search kinda puzzling, eh?
But then, the phrase is "distributed to the trade," not "distributed to bookstores."
--Ken
http://bb.publishamerica.com/viewtopic.php?t=19969Look at Stephen King. He has a B.A. in English, was an English teacher before a known author and his first two books bombed. Now look at him. He is one the greatest authors of our time. (Not to mention, a new movie of his is coming soon to theaters.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_KingBecoming famous
King's homeDuring this period, King began a number of novels. One of his first ideas was of a young girl with psychic powers. However, he grew discouraged, and threw it into the trash. Tabitha later rescued it and encouraged him to finish it.[3] After completing the novel, he titled it Carrie, sent it to Doubleday, and more or less forgot about it. Later, he received an offer to buy it with a $2,500 advance (not a large advance for a novel, even at that time). Shortly after, the value of Carrie was realized with the paperback rights being sold for $400,000 (with $200,000 of it going to the publisher).
http://www.stephenking.com/biography.phpCarrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado.
Unfortunately the time when having a press run of several thousand meant all or most would sell is now past. There are several reasons for this, among them the flooding of the market in recent years. Amazon lists more than 8 million books for sale. Print On Demand, the proliferation of vanity press companies and those that charge nothing other than the cost of the book itself are making it increasingly difficult for all but the biggest names or those with a built in audience (Jenna Bush, for example) to make sales. Twenty years ago the comglomerates began buying publishing companies in the belief that doing so would increase their profits. Having found out otherwise, they are dumping them right and left today. Some of the big publishers are growing increasingly leery of having a large intial press run, prefering a very small one and then going to POD if there proves to be much of a demand.
While it seems that it should be otherwise, all this has made it easier for a writer to have a first book published by a mainline firm. The majority, however, find that having a second book published is more difficult than it was in the past. So many mid-list and bootom-list writers are being dropped by publishers that a few new firms have popped up to cater to those mid-listers. But then they acquire a mid-list of their own, of course, and have to start cutting writers. It isn't an easy time for anyone other than the truly big names in the field and some have become a big name merely through luck and timing rather than skill.
Yeah, but before that he used to sell shorts to porn mags. Maybe that's what they were talking about?
Might also be that the home page is larded with geegaws, each of which counts as a hit when the page is loaded. That plus double and triple and quadruple counting back-and-forths within the site (maybe more geegaws on the other pages, too) could mean that real visits have numbered in the dozens, if that, including her own.. . . She says 26,000 hits. I don't think so. . . .
How do you want to be remembered when it comes to your writings, books, etc.?
I don't think my books, stories, or articles will ever be appreciated in my lifetime. I honestly believe that as wine ages with time, so will my memory. I've got a plan for all of my writings. People have asked me to explain this mysterious plan, but I won't. I don't feel the need to tell the world what the idea is or there would be everyone and their brother doing it. The timing isn't right for now.
I have been mocked, ridiculed, and made fun of just because I published with Publish America. If I had been published with Tor or Baen would people still try to smear me? Probably not, but people can be stupid so they may have. I've been studying the records and the creations of those who jumped on the wagon of ridicule. Trust me when I say, that I have outsold some of them.
Don't let the jabronies get to you. They are just green. It could be green of ignorance or green of envy. Either way, I'll leave you with the thought of them being green.
Typical PA-style misleading. He might have sold more books than the unpublished. I know for a fact he hasn't outsold me or anybody else who went with a real publisher.I've been studying the records and the creations of those who jumped on the wagon of ridicule. Trust me when I say, that I have outsold some of them.
He might have sold more books than the unpublished.
Most libraries have a copy of Editor & Publisher that lists all newspapers. You aren't likely to have much luck with them, though, aside from the ones in your immediate area. Newspapers are flooded with press releases and pay them little heed.
If I were you, Jose, I'd set up a website on Freewebs. It might do you more good.
I GOT BANNED FROM ABSOLUTEWRITE
They never liked me over at the forums on www.absolutewrite.com
They also hate publishamerica which they are always criticizing.
On their forum they have a place where writers can have their work criticized by other writers.
I posted a link to some of my work and got some really stupid useless criticism.
So I played a joke on them. I started a thread called "How about this" and copied passages from a book, Give Us a Kiss: A country Noir by Daniel Woodrell. He's an award winning writer, and I think his stuff is just teriffic. Well, guess what? It got panned with some stupid useless criticism.
I never claimed it was my work, but of course, they assumed it was. I revealed the gag, and one of the moderators pulled the post claiming it was plagiarism.
It's not plagiarism to copy a short passage for a review, and this could've been considered a review.
Up to this point they didn't ban me.
A few days later, however, I posted a thread in which I called the moderator who pulled my post, an anal jerk.
Now, I have been banned.
Anyway, this is what I was going to post there today.
New Millenium Magazine no longer accepts unsolicited submissions. To be considered for publication to their magazine, a writer has to enter a contest and pay a $17 fee with their submission--a price I'm not willing to pay.
Thank You,
BTW, that review comparing me to Mark Twain is totally fake. I wrote that myself to aggravate some people I was debating with on a political message board. The All-Mart Wars is a very early novellette I wrote. My writing's improved a lot since I wrote that. If I wasn't so busy I'd edit it and revise part of it. It needs it. Dealing with my webmaster is a pain and when the contract is up I'm going to switch over to authorsden.