Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
She also does her best to 'pay forward' to other writers.
That does cast her rant in a more positive light, IMHO.
I do agree that the current atmosphere in the book selling/publishing atmosphere is not author-friendly. It's also not very nice for smaller publishers, as they can't afford the deep discounts and higher level of organization that book resellers (Baker & Taylor) want.
Amazon is interesting in that while they accept paid promotional placement (say that three times fast!) they also encourage buyers to create Lists, recommendation pages, let the user followup on what people "like you" bought, let you peek at what circles of interest are buying. So they're rather kind of Spike-with-a-soul grey.
I'm pretty shocked that her POD book is $39.95, that seems way out of whack for pricing.
If it's a smaller publisher that can't count on the bulk sales to make up revenues and can't afford a large enough print run to keep the unit price of the book down, the pricing sounds about right to me.
I've got a story with an ending I now hate. I'd like the Buffistas to help me rehab it, but the piece is kinda long to post here,imo. But if I do, any formatting tips? I think I panic when stories get to a certain length and just sort of wrap them up "by any means neccessary"=cheesy endings
Are there any Buffistas who'd be intereseted in reading my college essays, or mind if I posted them here in the future? I mention y'all in one of them.
I would like to, esp. the one with Buffistaness.
I'd love to read your essays, Hil.
I'd love to read your essays, Hil.
That was Holli, not me.
Ah. Yes. Duh. I *do* know you apart. And that college-application essays aren't quite what's currently on your mind.