PA Promo-Style Protege

And you remembered to use CAPS!

Sigh . . . clicked through to her 'business' website.

Now, I know the occasional typo gets past the best of us. However, someone who is hawking themself to me as a publicist, editor, ghostwriter, and general all-around marketing guru needs to know the differences between a plural and a possessive.

circlexranch said:

Sigh . . . clicked through to her 'business' website.

Now, I know the occasional typo gets past the best of us. However, someone who is hawking themself to me as a publicist, editor, ghostwriter, and general all-around marketing guru needs to know the differences between a plural and a possessive.

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I'm sure the talented editors at PA edited her book sufficiently enough as to assure those same mistakes didn't grace her novel.

Wow. Look at the price of her other book!

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Fays-Wish/Dee-Owens/p/9780978645458

Oh, that's a third-party seller. There's always someone trying to sell a book for an outlandish price. An out-of-print book of mine is going for $598.78 on Amazon. I hope it's a mistake.

ETA: Her book is in stock at Amazon for $11.95.

inkkognito said:

I think I'm gonna apply for the position just so I can be a National Journalist of Eminent Standing. Can't wait to get that NATIONAL ACCREDITATION that gets me into all those exclusive press events.

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Oh no, it won't make you a National Journalist of Eminent Standing. It will make you a MEMBER of National Journalist of Eminent Standing.

I've never heard of that particular organization, but that NATIONAL ACCREDITATION sounds like a lot of fun. And I'm sure, say, the White House is going to be thrilled to recognize your very important and exclusive PartyDigest.com credentials.

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I covered a national party nominating convention once. I was news director for a radio station in the city where it was held, and believe me, it was a pain in the tail to get credentialed. I had to have press ID from the state, photo press ID from the city PD (both of which most working press would have had at the time), a note on station letterhead from the guy at the top confirming that they were sending me, plus an application for credentials. Took them several weeks to decide I was legit. It wouldn't surprise me if a rudimentary background check was involved.

If I'd waltzed in without their credentials I would have been escorted off the premises either by security or the Secret Service. There were many highly visible agents, and probably quite a few that were not so visible. These people were serious about security. I don't think PartyDigest.com creds would have gotten me to the metal detector.

LMAO, that woman was hired, yes hired, by a now-defunct epublisher. Chippewa/Lady Aibell hired her about two months before going under and when I went to her site and saw PA, I was horrified. It cinched my decision to request I be released from my contract with Lady Aibell that same day. As it turned out, they folded fast a month and a half later.

Ugh. I was damned if a PA author was going to be going anywhere near *my* novel.

In my defense, when I initially submitted to Lady Aibell, more than 11 months prior to their closing, there were no smoke signals. I did my research. Ugh again. Thank god I got out of there, and my book now has a shiny, *good* home with Ellora's cave.

I can't believe she's still around hawking her useless wares. The woman was beyond offensively ignorant about any and all things publishing/writing related.