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Joseha

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i'm Joseha Johnson:hi:

i found this forum at the first of March right after finding out about my publisher Publish America. i've just gotten enough composure back to try and reach out to others for advice. please pardon me for using a long signature

this :Soapbox: and this :cry: is me

but i hope to get back to this :Sun: real soon
 

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Welcome to AW! The POPCORN is always on me. Have some!:popcorn: As for as finding out how to get out of your PA contract, go to the Bewares and Background Checks section on this site. It has a whole section about PA. You should find some help there.
 

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:welcome:!

But yeah, as Jimmy was saying, go start a whole new thread in the PA forum and see what they say. Regrettably there's lots of people with, ahem, lots of experience with PA.

And not that it should stop you or change anything you say, but rest assured that someone at PA is most likely reading reading every word you type here.

ETA: I of course mean the PA subforum here on the Absolute Write forums, NOT the PAMB, ulness you're wanting to see how fast PA can delete the thread and boot you off their forum...
 

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Welcome to AW! The POPCORN is always on me. Have some!:popcorn: As for as finding out how to get out of your PA contract, go to the Bewares and Background Checks section on this site. It has a whole section about PA. You should find some help there.


thanks Jimmy, i'll check it out. i wish i did have some popcorn dang it
 

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Welcome and enjoy.
thanks donroc......lemme say thank you to all of you who have welcomed me so i don't start another bad habit

i am simple minded when it comes to the business end of getting published etc, so no wonder i got suckered. it's hard for me to get any respect from my family (parents) now too because they don't understand how devastating this is to my publishing career, i think they just think it is another example of how good i am at failing in life.

i'm almost at another break down; God when this thread was already alive, i was just signing on board with them, matter of fact, PA is the very reason i learned the internet. i need a rolaid

if they are reading my post, no worries, i'm a small towner who has little experience with the more sophisticated takers in the world so i'm toast no matter which way i turn. my best hope is to find a pot of gold

thank yall all again
 

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thanks donroc......lemme say thank you to all of you who have welcomed me so i don't start another bad habit

i am simple minded when it comes to the business end of getting published etc, so no wonder i got suckered. it's hard for me to get any respect from my family (parents) now too because they don't understand how devastating this is to my publishing career, i think they just think it is another example of how good i am at failing in life.

i'm almost at another break down; God when this thread was already alive, i was just signing on board with them, matter of fact, PA is the very reason i learned the internet. i need a rolaid

if they are reading my post, no worries, i'm a small towner who has little experience with the more sophisticated takers in the world so i'm toast no matter which way i turn. my best hope is to find a pot of gold

thank yall all again


oh wait, this is my pseudonym, and my book OR the name it was published in is not listed here. that is savvy but not on purpose so it don't count....i'm gonna start cursing again i just know it
 

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Welcome and best of luck getting your own back from PA


thank you Heron. i don't get why PA is still operating; what happened to the BBB and their power to shut frauds like them down? don't worry, i'm gonna surf this site, i'm sure that question has been asked plenty:)
 

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Welcome to AW. Hope you enjoy your stay with us.

How do you like your popcorn?
 

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i never got any popcorn so i ate rice instead

newbie in the science genre: :welcome: to you too

thank you for wishing me the:Sun:back soon


thank all of you again and again:)

yesterday i read on here about the bots recording peoples poetry posted on the net, (and i guess everything else we post or do on the net) even off their private sites; my question is: how much longer do yall think networking via internet will go on till a civil war breaks out again? I think people, whether the common population or huge companies like Publish America, instigate so much hatred on the net till one day war will break out in the United States. again.

Patience, morale,and thinking things thru are just not as strong of suits in human nature while battling the temptation of the net and cell phones and all the easy stuff that lets us multitask and snoop and cheat and steal etc, so i think after i find out if i can do anything legally concerning my book, i'm going back to the old way of life.

i've already banned cell phone usage, and if i hadn't been referred to Publish America by a lady working in a Christain bookstore in Athens Ga, i never would have learned the internet in the first place. no i don't blame her at all, she was only trying to be helpful.

since the only way to conduct business with PA was over the net, i had to learn how to get around on it, before then i'd watch others use it from time to time, but that was it.

i wish i had stuck to the old school sometimes, but on the other hand i have met some nice people on the internet and i get to research the things that interest me, then there's youtube...oh God, the net is just like everything else that has good and bad points, but on here i think the negative multiplies faster than the positive.

i was thinking if someone stole and published any of my work before i took it off the net, well if i had money i might feel flattered; but since i'm a poor minority in my small hometown (which even at 36 years old i am too afraid to leave), i'd probably have to go get back on medicine again myself. if you can't beat em you have to join em, or starve on your way to insanity. then again, morale is such a hard thing to compromise, it might bring a self judgement of attrition from my very soul.

*one thing i'd like to say to Forest is that life is not like a box of chocolates, cause mine all came with maps. now where did i put that thing
 
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