The Old Neverending PublishAmerica Thread (Publish America)

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JennaGlatzer

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they read
only certain sections.

Ha! If they had read ANY section of Atlanta Nights, it would never have been accepted. If they had read ONE SENTENCE of Atlanta Nights, it would never have been accepted. Er, unless it was accepted by a printer who thought, "Hmm, this looks like a sucker with a lot of aunts and uncles willing to buy his book."

(P.S. I said it last night and I'll say it again as a final warning: I don't care if I agree with you or not, I don't care if you're saying brilliant things, I don't want to see one more post by or about Gena regarding last night's ridiculousness. Nothing. Poof. Pretend it didn't happen. Move on. And I'm getting rid of any negative rep points.)
 

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James D. Macdonald said:
At first I wondered how an obvious spammer/scammer got onto the PA boards ... then I remembered exactly how easy it is to sell a book to PA and get a password.

If I wanted to start reading and posting on their private boards I could probably get in by this time next week.

James, with my suspicious mind, I was wondering if this person couldn't possibly someone from INSIDE PA with a hidden agenda? Just a thought...

Marlene
 

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Bonnie Gibson said:
This was sent to me this morning via email. I can't believe PA is using this defense. :roll:




Thank you for letting us know about the letter. We actually did not
publish Atlanta Nights. Our Acquisitions Team accepted the initial
submission, but they do not read every line of the manuscript; they read
only certain sections. The text department, though, does read every line,
and would have discovered the hoax later. However, our acquisitions team
did discover the hoax, and actually rejected the manuscript before the
hoaxers announced the hoax.

We have been discussing such bogus reviews with Amazon, but we appreciate
that you forwarded this information to us.

Thank You,
Author Support Team
[email protected]

Okay, that was weird because I responded to a post and it told me I had to include a response... Oh well.

At any rate, what I said before the computer went wonky was...

Publish American is trying So Hard to cover it's Bare Backside, it's becoming funny.

It's like someone forgot to put buttons on their union suit...
 

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James D. Macdonald said:
PA's reliance on spellchecks is obvious to anyone who reads their books. Take, for example, A Handsome Guy by Phil Dolan, one of their Best Sellers from last year. [...] In that same book, the town of Itoman (a place on Okinawa important to the action -- the book is a nonfiction account of the WWII Battle of Okinawa) was consistently spelled AUTOIMMUNE (yes, all caps). How did that happen if it wasn't through editing by spellchecker?
Oh my goodness.

I'm using this as an example in version 1.1 of the "only thing" page.

How awful for that author.
 

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Our Acquisitions Team accepted the initial
submission, but they do not read every line of the manuscript; they read
only certain sections.
[...]
Thank You,
Author Support Team
Is this the first time they've admitted that they don't read all of their submissions?
 

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I Just Found A Joke That Reminds Me of PublishAmerica

A pirate walked into a bar and the bartender said, "Hey, I haven't seen you
in a while. What happened? You look terrible".

"What do you mean?" the pirate asked. "I feel fine"

"What about the wooden leg? You didn't have that before."

"Well, we were in a battle and I got hit with a cannon ball, but I'm fine
now".

"Well, ok, but what about that hook? What happened to your hand?"

"We were in another battle. I boarded a ship and got into a sword fight. My
hand was cut off. I got fitted with a hook. I'm fine, really".

"What about that eye patch?"

"Oh, one day we were at sea and a flock of birds flew over. I looked up. and
one of them **** in my eye".

"You're kidding!" the bartender gasped. "You lost an eye from bird crap?"

"Well, it was my first day with the hook"


:cool:

Yo-ho, yo-ho a PAirates Company...

Scamming the landlubbers from coast to coast...
 

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the more they try to deny "Atlanta Nights", the worse it sounds.

every excuse shows that they really have NO idea of what it takes to publish a book - well, other than running it through spellcheck and printing off those letters for friends and family, that is.

:faint:
 

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Why PA will work for ME!

Hi folks,

Here's a question for former PA authors. A number of you have mentioned that you were aware going into your contract with PA that their marketting and author support wasn't necessarily the best, but that you thought that your book was unique enough that you could make PA work for you. Would you mind please sharing why?

I'm not asking to point the finger at anyone. Rather, I'm interested in better understanding how PA is capable of feeding off the dreams of good people.
 

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Kate Nepveu said:
Is this the first time they've admitted that they don't read all of their submissions?

I seem to recall that Larry admitted that in an interview shortly after the truth about Atlanta Nights became public knowledge.
 

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DaveKuzminski said:
I seem to recall that Larry admitted that in an interview shortly after the truth about Atlanta Nights became public knowledge.

so... they accept the book first and THEN read it?

wow... that's what everyone's been doing wrong! Call Simon & Shuster, Harlequin and Random House!

:tongue
 

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Christine, please read my last post (on the previous page).

P.S. I'm not mad at anyone; in fact I admire many people's restraint and politeness. Just imagine me as Martha Stewart during her pre-jail term interview saying something like, "I just want to focus on my salad now."
 
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Bonnie Gibson said:
they do not read every line of the manuscript; they read only certain sections.

Completely randomly chosen lines from AN:

Moments later, their young strawberry-auburn-headed waitress attended them with a pleasing winsome grin full of healthy teeth and gums.

She was walking away from Frankly My Dear with her footlong drenched in mayo and mustard and ketchup and relish and had just wrapped her warm pink lips around the large hotdog when a young man had stared at her with a frozen expression as he slowly reached up and removed his baseball cap and held it reverently over his heart.

Margaret's you hot little nurse worth her. Don't worry about me. She thought. She put in his pants again and on her shoulder, the wall. She was a midnight snack to pay to let a horrible noise. Steven?

She rushed to the door, undulating provocatively as she strode impetuously across the deeply carpeted floor. Heedless of consequences, she flung the door open -- and there he stood, a tempting vision of manhood even in a dripping Burberry.


Sure would make me want to send the acceptance letter!

But wait, I don't work for PA, so what do I know?

underthecity

 

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Oh, ok. I though since she posted what I was referencing today, that it was open for discussion. My bad.

It was an honest question that I asked.

Anywhoo. I see the ridiculous "200 Authors" project is still going on. By the time they get it together and get it out there, it will be so out of date it'll be growing mold.

But that's my opinion.
 

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keltora said:
A pirate walked into a bar and the bartender said, "Hey, I haven't seen you
in a while. What happened? You look terrible".

"What do you mean?" the pirate asked. "I feel fine"

"What about the wooden leg? You didn't have that before."

"Well, we were in a battle and I got hit with a cannon ball, but I'm fine
now".

"Well, ok, but what about that hook? What happened to your hand?"

"We were in another battle. I boarded a ship and got into a sword fight. My
hand was cut off. I got fitted with a hook. I'm fine, really".

"What about that eye patch?"

"Oh, one day we were at sea and a flock of birds flew over. I looked up. and
one of them **** in my eye".

"You're kidding!" the bartender gasped. "You lost an eye from bird crap?"

"Well, it was my first day with the hook"


:cool:

Yo-ho, yo-ho a PAirates Company...

Scamming the landlubbers from coast to coast...
Oh, that is too perfect -- yo-ho-ho! Where's the bottle of rum?;)
 

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underthecity said:
Completely randomly chosen lines from AN:


She rushed to the door, undulating provocatively as she strode impetuously across the deeply carpeted floor. Heedless of consequences, she flung the door open -- and there he stood, a tempting vision of manhood even in a dripping Burberry.





*swoons*

oh, man... can you imagine the cover they would have put together for this one?

heaving bosoms, fer sure...

:banana:
 

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Christine N. said:
Anywhoo. I see the ridiculous "200 Authors" project is still going on. By the time they get it together and get it out there, it will be so out of date it'll be growing mold.

But that's my opinion.

the sad thing about that is not so much that it's a worthless project, but it's something a REAL publisher would do - let THEM put out the catalog, make it FREE to bookstores and it'll help SELL your book!

each one of these authors is going to buy at least one copy, putting more money into PA's pocket. And then he/she will wander around to bookstores, trying to show it to the manager who has much better things to do than flip through a fat catalog of non-returnable and overpriced books, to say nothing of the lack of editing and 'orrible covers...

sad, sad, sad.

:Headbang:
 

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Sheryl Nantus said:
*swoons*

oh, man... can you imagine the cover they would have put together for this one?

heaving bosoms, fer sure...

:banana:
Heaving bosoms, fer sure, but on which one -- him or her? Remember, this is a PAirate cover designer. :ROFL:
 

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underthecity said:
Completely randomly chosen lines from AN:

Moments later, their young strawberry-auburn-headed waitress attended them with a pleasing winsome grin full of healthy teeth and gums.

She was walking away from Frankly My Dear with her footlong drenched in mayo and mustard and ketchup and relish and had just wrapped her warm pink lips around the large hotdog when a young man had stared at her with a frozen expression as he slowly reached up and removed his baseball cap and held it reverently over his heart.

Margaret's you hot little nurse worth her. Don't worry about me. She thought. She put in his pants again and on her shoulder, the wall. She was a midnight snack to pay to let a horrible noise. Steven?

She rushed to the door, undulating provocatively as she strode impetuously across the deeply carpeted floor. Heedless of consequences, she flung the door open -- and there he stood, a tempting vision of manhood even in a dripping Burberry.


Sure would make me want to send the acceptance letter!

But wait, I don't work for PA, so what do I know?

underthecity


I was going to delete a portion of this quote to not take up extra space, but this bears repeating. Too funny!
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Now I want to go out and buy a copy, or I'll trade you a copy or ten of my own PA book for one. It is hilarious!
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Thanks for the haha's.

Marlene, reformed PA'er, soon to be wearing a "banned from both PA boards" tee-shirt
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JennaGlatzer said:
Just imagine me as Martha Stewart during her pre-jail term interview saying something like, "I just want to focus on my salad now."
I can imagine that! Except I was saying "I just want to focus on my brownies now". Don't suppose they will accept those at camp cupcake though. Oh Lord, don't get me started on ol' Martha. I would have to start a whole new thread.:popcorn:
 

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Bonnie Gibson said:
Our Acquisitions Team accepted the initial
submission, but they do not read every line of the manuscript; they read
only certain sections.

That's true...they read the title and the author (have to make sure there's nothing coming through from the Big 8 (using their real names...ahem), or anything titled The Downfall of a Scam Publisher or anything like that)...you expect them to read more?
:D
 
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