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One Year On

Posted by: allanmayer on: April 21, 2009

A lot has happened since I started my blog one year ago this month…
This time last year I was still sending out the letters and submissions to agents and publishers and getting them returned (or not) with the standard rejection letters. Each manuscript provided exactly what each agent or publisher asked for, not a chapter [...]

Special Guest: Mr. Edward Smith

Posted by: allanmayer on: February 18, 2009

I am publishing the correspondence below with the permission of Ted Smith, Director of YouWriteon.
(I had previously written about the mix up of book covers on Amazon, and Ted had replied that the cover and interior at Lightning Source matched, so the problem must have occured at Amazon…)
I wrote:
Thanks Ted,
I’ve just sent my press release [...]

Latest News (4)

Posted by: allanmayer on: December 8, 2008

Well this is the eve of the day that the first batch of YouWriteOn authors will be told when their books are ready.
But already some have been filtering onto Amazon and Barnes and Noble over the weekend. You can see the first 115 on Barnes and Noble here:
http://books.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?WRD=youwriteon
 Amazon have 111- many with no covers yet, and saying [...]


My Latest Twitterings

  • To see my 2009 review of the ups and downs of being a POD published author. Go to: http://allanmayer.wordpress.com/ 2 days ago
  • would any kind people out there like to add to the tags for 'Tasting the Wind' on Amazon? (I could be above Dan Brown in thrillers!) 1 week ago
  • Just found that my book is number one on Amazon.com in books tagged 'Learning disabilities' and it's got 41 thriller tags 1 week ago