I got my ISBNs

My publisher code is 0-9745056. Isn't that a great number? I love it. DISPLACED is now 0-9745056-0-9 and WALLOW is 0-9745056-1-7. The real test will be to wait until my Bowker's list submission has cleared, and then to walk into a Barnes and Noble and ask them about an author named Rick Pryll, if they have any of his books. I wonder how often Bowker's goes out to the book stores, or if they have a real-time system.

the world just opens up

I just found this resource called MidWest Book Review. From there I found the Book Clearing House that will perhaps (hopefully) agree to distribute my books. For a hefty fee (Out of the cover price of $10, I get $3.10...) of course, but it's better than having the books sit in boxes at the studio. Well, careful now, I can't just give them away.

I also found information about the Amazon Advantage program. They pay only 45% of the cover price. I guess the only advantage they are talking about is theirs.

places to publish stories

Okay, some of the marketing that goes into selling a book is really marketing the author. And that means getting people to read some stories. Once they read a story, hopefully they'll want more.

In the interest of getting some stories out there, here is one place: Espresso Fiction. I also sent an email to Blue Mountain Arts, I want to write cards for them. Wouldn't that be cool? now that isn't really marketing for books, because who ever finds out who wrote a card. but I can write cards - I'm good at it.

More places to submit articles: writing-world.com.

minor hiatus

I am starting a new job. You can expect posts here to be infrequent for the next couple of weeks while I get my schedule figured out.

new site to check out

there is a certain amount of this that has made me feel like I am chasing my tail. I mean, wrodthunder seems closely associated with writer's manual, and I can't tell the difference between writer's manual, wrtier's gazette and ebooks.com - they seem like they are all just offshoots of the same site.

Today I found something new. It's called BooksandAuthors.net and it seems like it is a little more established. I guess that's the word I'm looking for. There is no place to send in your own interview or to promote or review your own book. Right away that seems a little more legit to me. In addition, they have a list of links to a bunch of other sites that I didn't know about. I will use this as my jumping off point for the next couple days if not weeks.

banner exchange

Earlier in this blog I question whether or not I would go so far as to add all these crazy banners to my site. The answer I have decided upon is that yes, but only to certain sections of the site. My press/reviews page is the perfect place for things like this. I have registered with the BestBookLinks Banner Exchange program. Hopefully my mysterious banner ad will draw some attention.

updated er-ra-ta page

I write it like that because I included on the page the definition of errata. I di it mostly because I wanted to know the singular for errata, which Merriam-Webster tells me is erratum. By the way, the best dictionary online, in my opinion is Merriam-Webster. I use it all the time. But the definition of errata includes another word I never saw before: corrigenda. So I included that definition on the errata page as well. It looks good on the page, it provides me with the little extra contant I needed for that page, and I just like to educate as I serve.