Shadow Song has now hit the Amazon website and is available for order both through our own website (which will get you a special promotional price until September 30, as well as a signed copy), and Amazon’s (should you wish to take care of member discounts and promotions). We’d love to hear your reviews of the novel, which can be posted on this blog, under condition we are allowed to use your review for promotional…
At long last, and after some considerable consternation, without any support or assistance from my POD (print on demand publisher — Lulu), Recipes of a Dumb Housewife is now available through Chapters/Indigo/Coles. My huge thanks to Anne Garner, cookbook buyer at Chapters, for her considerable assistance and understanding! Without her this could never have happened.
It would seem my experience with Lulu Publishing has soured a bit. It would seem distibution through them is not what it is puported to be, and after some considerable time waiting for a reasonable answer, one of Lulu’s staff have threatened to shut down forum discussion of the Chapters/Indigo distribution problem.In short, I’ve been threatened with censorship.Nothing raises my hackles and sets me searching for my trusty sword faster than injustice. And now that…
Lorina StephensJoined: 16 Mar 2007Posts: 62Posted: 28 Aug 2007 03:34 pm Post subject: Chapters/Indigo distributionI’m wondering how many of our very few members have their books listed wtih Chapters/Indigo? Mine is not, and I know Conny’s is not. After reading through the forums, I’ve discovered there seems to a problem wtih Chapters/Indigo and Lulu. I have a query in to support and will let the group know what comes of that correspondence. In the meantime,…
I remember teaching creative writing through Dufferin County Continuing Education. Every year I’d have about 15-20 students the first week, many starry-eyed with visions of best-sellers dancing in their heads. Right from the outset I’d disabuse them of that notion, citing facts that less than 1% of all book and novel submissions ever make it to an acquisitions editor let alone publication.The next week the class would be half the size. They’d start submitting their…