An experienced publisher.I am interested to hear...what would you like the answers to be to your questions? I'm curious. Hmmm an idea for a thread possibly or a blog post. What does the Author want???
I completely understand. We have started 3 other businesses from scratch and had to prove ourselves there as well. New businesses (especially in this economy) are always volatile. All I can say is that we haven't failed yet, and have no intentions to start now. With all the changes in how a consumer can now read a book, we feel digital publishing is the way of the future. Sorry traditional publishing!
*smiling* You are obviously a highly intelligent person. I respect that.
We are focused on making money for all parties involved. If an author, such as yourself, felt that money could be made more by holding on to the foreign rights and so forth, then the author would need to negotiate that in the contract. I feel like an author who trusts their manuscript with LazyDay may choose otherwise. Regardless, this would be part of contract negotiations with the author and the publisher. No guns will be pointed at anyone's head. If we loved your book and you are set on holding your print rights, then we would just have to see. We are going into this with an open mind. What would we want with a bunch of rights if we had no intentions of making money off of them? Our intentions are to hustle that manuscript in all money making avenues. That is what an author wants right? Their book sold!.
This is precisely what I thought you'd say, almost to the word. So you're not fooling anyone and having us believe that you chanced upon this thread out of the blue and felt it necessary to defend a completely unknown publishing start-up merely through the goodness of your heart because, well, that's just the type of person you are.Scrutiny and paranoia runs rampant. God forbid I found this board because I'm a writer too and saw hawk mob mentality and felt it was a free forum to get my feet wet, but ya know.... lol thank you for the warm welcome. The fuzzies are overwhelming.
My very first post, and pounced on. Who needs a trip to the zoo at feeding time when I can do it all from the comfort of my own home. Yikes. Not everyone has ulterior motives, relax, just a newbie here and a very embraced one. Sheesh. One post and you are criminal and suspect. Get to writing, it's a great conspiracy theory wasted on a board thread.
Bummer I didn't Hop on Pop to bash a new hopeful, I'm one as well and btw NOT contracted with them as was eluded to, so that was a silly speculation. All I said was everyone deserves a chance and Lazyday took a beating, and took it well imo. Maybe it wasn't the best post to start in at, was where my mouse took me first. That said, crazy amount of negative energy that really could be channeled instead of naying others - myself included. Wrinkles come from such squinting and speculation. Have an apple, delicious!
- DM