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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ross Clark Thank you for offering advice to
wannabe author such
as myself.
On the whole «Business For
Authors» is a well - written and such a comprehensive book that
as a
wannabe author you may take months to digest.
Review by: Larry B. Gray on April 10, 2012: This is an excellent guide and must - read for all ebook
authors and writer
wannabes such
as myself.