In my mind this is exactly the same type of exploitation
of wannabe authors as Harlequin's, and almost on a par with charging a reading fee.
Looks like all of the usual cadre
of wannabe authors have come out of the woodwork to once more strike up a crusade against anyone that speaks ill of self - publishing.
Not exact matches
In this edited excerpt, the
authors profile the owner
of a helicopter service to give
wannabe transportation service entrepreneurs an inside look at a profitable business.
For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge
of authors rejected by publishing houses,
wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes
of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.
None but the tenured and the
wannabe tenured would approach the Bible as a mere work
of literature — much less as a text
of divine inspiration — with so little imagination or so little appreciation for the imagination
of its
authors, this is sobering, for today's student theologians are likely to be tomorrow's women
of the cloth.
Rosalind Wiseman,
author of Queen Bees and
Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities
of Adolescence, shares her S.E.A.L. tool, used to help teens deal with a confrontation or disagreement.
Dr. Phil joins with Rosalind Wiseman,
author of Queen Bees and
Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities
of Adolescence, to give parents advice on helping their daughters become accountable for their actions.
If fans had wondered when — as all high - profile SNL cast members eventually do — Fey would set her sights on feature films, their curiosity would soon be answered when it was announced that Fey would be writing and appearing in Mean Girls (2004), an adaptation
of author Rosalind Wiseman's popular book Queen Bees and
Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Boyfriends and Other Realities
of Adolescence.
Author of Masterminds and Wingmen and Queen Bees and
Wannabes — the book behind the new Broadway show, «Mean Girls» — she puts the focus on creating cultures
of dignity within schools by breaking down power structures between adults and students.
Reactions have ranged from outrage and disgust that once again self - published
authors were being treated as amateurs,
wannabes, and «aspiring
authors,» to anger at indie
authors for trying to liken their plight to the civil rights movement with Howey's choice
of title and comments along the lines
of, «It's like shades
of Jim Crow when blacks had to sit in the back
of the bus...» [1.
From the comments I see posted on various blogs and websites, I have to conclude that the vast majority
of wannabe bestselling
authors are severely delusional.
There are continuous referrals to traditional publishing as «greedy» by both
wannabe self - published
authors, and
authors who seek to blaze a new trail being published by Amazon, without understanding
of how the traditional business model really works.
Steve is also an aspiring «PhD
wannabe» (his words, not mine) whose knowledge
of literature runs from an entrenched understanding
of the classics to those works
of literary fiction developed by independent
authors in more recent times.
The difference between your old ways and the new one is that it's the readers who will decide what they want to read, not a bunch
of over-educated, frustrated
wannabe authors who are sniffing the wind to try and catch the next big wave.
But... given that there is a huge supply
of author wannabes waiting in the wings to fill the small numbers
of slots, maybe they won't have to change... just find an
author who is willing to concede to their demands....
I've never attempted anything on this scale, and bringing together 4 diverse, very successful
authors to Grand Bend to teach 90 minute workshops to an equally diverse audience
of new and «
wannabe» writers proved to be no small challenge.
On top
of all
of this, Mur has a fantastic podcast for
wannabe authors called, I Should Be Writing, which I highly recommend.
If you are worried that an
author might be self - published and, therefore, part
of the unwashed
wannabe literati, there's a wonderful think you can do with almost every e-book retailer out there: download a sample.
Expect to see all
of this push into a higher gear — after all... there is money in
wannabe author's pockets.
Joe sez: Some people believe the ease
of self - publishing means that millions
of wannabe writers will flood the market with their crummy ebooks, and the good
authors will get lost in the morass, and then family values will go unprotected and the economy will collapse and the world will crash into the sun and puppies and kittens by the truckload will die horrible, screaming deaths.
• Why struggling
authors spend countless hours and hundreds
of dollars publishing their dream book, only to find it gets lost among all the other self - published «
wannabe» books... and how you can make sure your book stands out from the competition.
It is a competitive market, indubitably, but what draws the attention
of wannabe - published
authors is definitely the prospect
of owning it and not having to see another rejection letter in the mail.
September 18th: Starter Day Party @ iI Heart Reading September 20th: Book Excerpt @ Nesies's Place September 21st:
Author Interview @ Mythical Books September 22nd: Book Review @ Diary
of a
Wannabe Writer September 23rd: Book Excerpt @ Bright Street Books September 24th: Promo Post @ Books, Dreams, Life September 25th: Book Review @ Blushing...
Evy Journey, SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman
Author awardee, is a writer, a
wannabe artist, and a flâneuse who, wishes she lives in Paris where people have perfected the art
of aimless roaming.
I had heard
of too many
wannabe published
authors who had been waiting for years for either a book deal from a trad publisher, or even an agent to pitch for them.
Traditional publishers are taking notice and are now gearing up to offer their own «self - publishing» opportunities... Expect to see all
of this push into a higher gear — after all, there is money in
wannabe author's pockets.»
I don't have the numbers, but I guess less than 10 %
of these «
wannabes» become
authors, or entrepreneurs.
An agent's job is to sift through the thousands
of mostly - unreadable manuscripts that
wannabe authors send him every year and forward the ten or twenty that he thinks stand a chance to whichever publisher (s) he thinks will be most interested in them.
Writer,
wannabe author, creator
of Slightly Animated cartoons on YouTube, and more than a bit nerdy.