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 Post subject: Now you can buy a hard copy of my novel--not a download!
PostPosted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:57 pm 
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Good news and bad news: I decided to try and upload what I consider to be my best novel, "Pixie", to a publishing-on-demand site. I haven't tried querying an agent about the manuscript in two years and realized that the constant rejection of the first twenty pages of my work by smarmy New York City types has done nothing to convince me that the entire thing is of no value to any reader anywhere on the planet.

So, the good news for those of you who, for one reason or another hate reading downloaded text, is that you can now own a paperback copy of "Pixie" to own and cherish, take to the beach or onto an airplane, and so on and so forth. Here's the little blurb I barfed up at some point to shill this strange little story of girl's hockey and federal law enforcement:

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"S.F.W." author A.M. Wellman returns with "Pixie", a novel about a couple of weeks in the life of a woman who happens to be in the Federal Witness Protection Program. As a girl growing up in Ontario, Nela Perkins once captured Canada's attention with her exploits on the hockey rink. However, as she approaches the age of forty, attention is the last thing she seeks. Ten years after cutting a deal with the F.B.I. in order to avoid prison, Nela quietly lives in a trailer somewhere in Florida, her whereabouts unknown not only to the men against whom she testified, but to her own family as well. With the prospect of another lonely holiday approaching, Nela is already on edge when an ex-lover arrives in Florida with a warning: Trust nobody--and that includes the people she thought were protecting her. For Nela, it's more than enough to cause a major identity crisis.


Now for the bad news: Even after setting my author royalty rate at zero (that's NO dollars and NO cents) the goddamn book is still more than slightly overpriced.

Anyway, here it is. 731 pages of something. http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-b ... ie/6946071


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 Post subject: Now you can buy a hard copy of my novel--not a download!
PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:10 am 
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Awesome, best of luck with this. Have you tried out some of the other PoD places online? Lulu is one of the best known and easiest to use, but as I understand it they are also one of the more expensive. You might be able to get your price around if you poke about on some other services. Good luck!


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 Post subject: Now you can buy a hard copy of my novel--not a download!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:52 pm 
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Well, I managed to drop the price by another ten bucks by converting my manuscript from double to single spacing.

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-b ... ie/6976421

I suppose I should find out about cheaper POD sites--I am too cranky right now to find out about how to get an ISBN--but $22.84 isnt bad. To print a 700 page manuscript at home uses up at least twenty sollars worth of inkjet cartridge, plus at least about seven or eight dollars worth of paper. I don't know what Kinko's charges per page to copy a manuscript these days, but let's say five cents a page--that's 35 bucks right there.

The only reason I'm doing this is because I don't know anybody who wants to read my crap on their computer screen--they all expect me to print me a copy. And I learned a long time ago that when somebody swears up and down that they will read something that you have written simply if you print a copy up for them, including an expensive manuscript...never take them at their word.

Frankly, I have no interest in marketing my writing these days. None.


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