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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1971
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 10:00 pm: |   |
Last week I received a card from the local arts council inviting me to a book signing. the author's book was an imprint of Ivy House. would you go there?
from their web-site "The cost of a Tier 3 contract starts at a minimum of approximately $9,000, averaging at about $14,000. The publication time frame is between 9 and 12 months."
http://www.perrycomer.com
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
2139
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 11:29 pm: | |
Perry,
By go there, do you mean as a signer of your own books or as a panelist speaking, or just as a guest to showup and buy a book?
As another signer for the event, sure, why not? Can't really hurt you and you might meet some nice people who will want to buy your book and read it.
As a panelist or other kind of speaker, there again, sure, why not, nothing to lose, and you might gain more readership.
As a guest to showup and buy a book, that is totally up to you. If you are interested in the type story the author writes, or if you know him and he is from your area, well, that is a call only you can make. You know what it is like to have a booksigning and no one shows up, don't you? Or if only a small handful of people come by and no one stops, it is a pretty lonely world out there when you are an unknown (and even a known) author and you are alone in a strange town, with nothing but strange faces, so do whatever your conscience and heart says you should do about showing up there.
I think that it mostly depends on why they sent you the invite and what they want of you, and the only way you may find that out is to call the sender of the invite to ask the question.
Claudia
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2492
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 05:02 am: | |
I took the original post to mean that the author had invited him to come and buy a book at the signing...
Nothing wrong with going and checking the book out...in my opinion.
Myself, I don't choose the books I read based on the publisher.
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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1972
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 06:08 am: | |
Sorry - brain cloud
I was glad to be invited but what I was getting at was the price the author PAID to have the book published.
the question I meant to pose was, "Would you pay that much to have YOUR book published?"
To me, it is a rip-off of the highest order.
http://www.perrycomer.com
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Brian T. Seifrit
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
726
Registered: 03-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 09:29 am: | |
Really, is there a need to pay for your own books to be published? Obviously they are a self-publishing outfit. I wouldn't pay that much. Others might have a different outlook though. It's just my own opinion. "Don't do it." Talk to ya...
Brian T.
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
2140
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 09:43 am: | |
well, that depends on whether or not he has had some sort of experience with companies like (if there are any like?) PA or others of that ilk and again, just wants his book in his hands no matter what. Maybe he thinks that is the only way to get his book out on the market. Maybe he has much, much monies, and it is all burning giant holes in his pockets, to blow and just wants to have that book read by certain people in certain places of location or of interest, maybe he thinks himself a really great writer, but has thousands of rejection letters and is totally determined to have his book be the first #1 seller from a vanity house. Who knows, there are a thousand maybes and only a few really relative answers, but each person is an individual. Maybe he just wanted a book with an ISBN# and this was the only way he found to get that. Maybe he wanted a book and he can cancel the contract anytime he wants to.
Personally, after what I went through and am still going through with that company, I would never entrust my work with any company that even smelled like that duck. But, it is easy to use hindsight and think of all the things I would have/should have done now that my book is totally lost. I was so green when I signed with PA that if they would have told me the sun was purple, I might have believed it, then again, I really hope that I would have been smarter, but~~~~~~
Claudia
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