WALLOW now available on the Amazon Kindle

Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IEAH614

LIES t-shirts

Get your LIES t-shirts

谎言

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product2.aspx?from=CustomDesigner&number=1256742867

more broken links to LIES

mshumate@acpub.duke.edu,

broken links to LIES

Today my goal is to send out announcement emails to folks who have old links to LIES, to tell them about the new site URL.

Here's the email:

Hi,

Thank you for continuing to maintain a link to my hyperfiction short story LIES.  After a brief hiatus, LIES is back online and can be found at the following URL:

http://www.rickpryll.com/lies/lies.html

Please take a moment to update your links.

Rick Pryll

Author
LIES, a hyperfiction short story
displaced: (un)collected poems
WALLOW: stories, rumours and other theatrics

email: rick@rickpryll.com | phone: 704-575-5182 | web: www.rickpryll.com

Now let me identify at least three places to send emails.

unbound@potsdam.edu

 leo@reactivewriting.co.uk (this email address bounced)

sue.kuennen@kirkwood.edu

sitecontact@airnyc.org

info@eastgate.com

deenalarsen AT yahoo DOT com

10 years later...

So it goes like this.  I was digging through some of my old stuff trying to unpack boxes in the new house.  I stumbled on a bag I used to collect all the surrounding material for WALLOW when I wrote it.  I discovered that I had submitted WALLOW to the Self-Published Book awards administered by Writer's Digest.

At the time when I received the notification that I had not won, I was disappointed, and didn't give the rest of the package much notice.  Looking back at it now, it is very good feedback.  In fact, the person who reviewed my book said I should look into a book called Guerrilla Marketing for Writers.  So I went to the Books A Million near my house, and while they had lots of stuff on Guerrilla Marketing, they did not have the specific book I was looking for.  So I bought the iBook on my iPad instead.

Great book!  I wish I had it back in 2000.  I wish I had paid attention to the very valuable feedback I got in 2000 from Writer's Digest.  My goodness.

No worries.  I can pick it up and run with it now, in 2013.

So one of the first things I need to do is pull together an author's resume.  I sketched one out this morning.  Here it is:

Awards

• 1991 Robert A. Boit
• 2000 Merit Award from Writer's Digest for a Self-published book

Publications

• Optimism Magazine
• THINK Magazine
• SHIFT magazine
• Wall Street Journal
• Eclectic online journal

Readings

• No more words, book launch for displaced
• G+G, reading
• Sedm vlku, book launch for WALLOW

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.