I have finally been published! First Spell, book one of The Bayou Witches is available for pre-order when you click on the link.
My new day job consists of many long, stressful work hours. Between working six days a week and continuing college classes, it is going to be at least another year or so until I can write Book Two.
But I figure that should give you plenty of time to read my first book, and critique it as you see fit. I encourage your comments and critiques, as well as any fan art you draw of my characters. Please email me a copy of your artwork so I can post it here for the other fans!
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I can't wait to get a copy and review it for you!
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ReplyDeleteUm, you do know PublishAmerca is consider about as legit a publishing credit as Tate Publishing, Author House, Xlibris and Lulu?
Real publishers/agents don't consider books printed by PublishAmerica as actually being published.
Did you check them out before you signed?
Don't believe me?:
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33451
John Scalzi is a successful columnist, freelance writer and book author (both non-fiction and fiction). His debut novel, Old Man's War, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in March 2006.
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Anyone who looks at PublishAmerica's practices gets the idea pretty clearly that the publisher is not in the business of selling to a mass market; it's in the business of selling to the writer and to the writer's immediate friends and anyone the writer can convince to carry the book. And of course there's a phrase that fits those kinds of publishers: Vanity publisher.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, a senior editor at Tor Books in NYC, says:
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PublishAmerica is a vanity publisher. They'll publish anything that has enough words in it to pass muster as a book.
Peirs Anthony
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December 2004 update: complaints continue, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ran an expose, saying that PA does not pay royalties. That's a no-no. My impression is that this publisher is best avoided.
Of all the recent years of reading your reviews on amazon and being a fellow L.J. Smith fan, I'm really happy to see you finally have a book published. You've done what I only wish I could do! Looking forward to reading your first book! --Silver Lynx from Amazon
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