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Where's Eliot Ness when you need him?
Where's Al Capone when you need him?
Where's Eliot Ness when you need him?
Ya know, what PublishAmerica really needs is a documentary. A writer gets a book "published" with them, then sets out on a road trip with some random friend(s) to visit every bookstore in America to get them to stock his/her book. They try everything: beg for signings, hide books on shelves, make lollipop trees, etc. It would be like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
Yeah, that's what we need. Who has 10,000 random words of writing, or should we all contribute poems?
Ya know, what PublishAmerica really needs is a documentary. A writer gets a book "published" with them, then sets out on a road trip with some random friend(s) to visit every bookstore in America to get them to stock his/her book. They try everything. . . .Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
Hello, world, there's a book that we're writing:
C'mon get published!
And of course, I can't remember any more of the Partridge Family theme song...
Find a happy place, Jimmy. Find a happy place
That is every business's language.. . . what you need to do is speak PA's language: $. . . .
That is every business's language.
Be that as it may, much as folks here hate to hear this, one way to get the contract terminated with a minimum of delay or angst is to write a businesslike letter offering payment in exchange for termination. Calculations suggest that PA banks on an average net of a few hundred dollars per title, so an offer in that range should be adequate, and I have seen a case where it was adequate and resulted in prompt, cordial end of the contract.
No need to offer the usual denunciations of what I'm describing. I'm merely making a factual statement.
--Ken
I know of two instances locally of orders by check that were never filled. I have to guess that PA does not want to bother with checks. Credit card orders, fine, but those paid with check appear to go into the trash, judging from the examples I've heard about.. . . has yet to receive the book that she purchased by check, in August of 2007. . . .