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[Promotion] Texas Association of Authors / Texas Authors, Inc.

Gillhoughly

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This came on to my radar recently and it appears to be a Yet Another (steeply priced) Display Site.

http://books.txauthors.com/default.asp

Membership starts at 100.00, though it's 115.00 on another page, and 500.00 if you want "advertizing" added on.

So far as I can tell the promotion seems limited to the website and maybe you get a bumper sticker. There's no mention of tote bags or lollipop trees, but they may not have thought of those yet.

http://books.txauthors.com/product-p/aml1.htm

http://books.txauthors.com/category-s/1977.htm

"[FONT=&quot]Texas Association of Authors was created by B. Alan Bourgeois in 2011 when he realized that a program of some sort needed to be created that gave authors a ‘boost’ in their ability to sale and market their books. As an author, he struggled along with thousands of others trying to find the one thing to separate him from everyone else."

[/FONT]My take is that this is not a venue I would recommend, there being little to no obvious return on the investment to writers. However, it must be a nice little extra income trickle for Mr. Bourgeois.

The place has a business sponsorship with Black Rose Writing, which uses Publish America / America Star Books as an example. BR has a thread in this forum. BR is out 500.00 bucks on that one, so there's some delicious irony there. ;)
 

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I missed this when I replied in the Black Rose thread. This guy's name is on the whois listing for the site.

I looked up his profile on Amazon, and he has been published with PublishAmerica and another vanity press along with being self-pubbed.

This is the site's About page: http://books.txauthors.com/product-p/aml1.htm

I'm Texas-based, but personally I don't see a lot of benefit. I wish him luck, but would strongly suggest he work on site design. The sponsors list is a shopping cart.
 
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