I have spellchecker programs on all of my e-mail accounts, and I've seen them let serious goofs go by the boards unmarked. (Can't tell you how many times I've sent stuff out with "ahve" instead of "have". And human spellcheckers can be worse. Reading e-maisl from my younger sisters is exercise in and of itself (by having to lift the dictionary repeatedly)
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:42 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Go broke on one NY Times Bestseller a year They couldn't do a spellcheck before sending it to the printers?? On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> wrote: Mr Worf, I've read many of those as well, and I *hope* that they're the result of very lax proofreading and typesetting. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:14:17 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Go broke on one NY Times Bestseller a year I know a few people that have sold music promoting themselves. They are not rich from it, but it does supplement their income well. A few others went on to become big. (like Metallica for example.) But I think that is a different set of circumstances than selling books. There is still no other way to make real money without playing the game of having the right publisher, artwork, looks etc. I have read books and wonder how they got published. (same for music and movies) Typos, bad grammar that wasn't part of the dialog etc. were there. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Bosco Bosco <ironpi...@yahoo.com> wrote: Selling 10K books without a real marketing budget or promotional materials or staff is not a very easy task. So is selling 10K worth of songs in single or album. Most unfinanced artists will simply never pull those kind of numbers. I have several friends who have published books. None of them have made a living except one and that's because Oprah picked her book. She was very lucky. Bosco --- On Thu, 11/19/09, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Go broke on one NY Times Bestseller a year To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 5:38 PM That is the problem with large publishers. With the business model situation that she is in, it will take about 200,000 sales before she can start to be comfortable. Self publishing is an alternative but it takes a lot more work for the person doing it. No advances, you must make your own promotional dates etc. It is possible to sell 10,000 books and make the same money though. That is the same with music too. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo. com> wrote: Paranormal romance author Lynn Viehl bared all last week — she posted her complete royalty statement from her publisher, for her New York Times bestselling book Twilight Fall. And the details might make you reconsider a career as a novelist. http://feenooy. notlong.com ------------ --------- --------- ------ Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/scifinoir2 /app/peoplemap2/ entry/add? fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/scifinoir2 / Individual Email | Traditional http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/scifinoir2 /join (Yahoo! ID required) scifinoir2-digest@ yahoogroups. com scifinoir2-fullfeat u...@yahoogroups .com scifinoir2-unsubscr i...@yahoogroups. com http://docs. yahoo.com/ info/terms/ -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/ -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/
