Posted by: allanmayer on: December 21, 2009
At the end of 2008, after years of rejection letters from agents and publishers, I decided to publish my novel, ‘Tasting the Wind’ in a ‘Print on Demand’ (POD) format. POD is not to be confused with self publishing. If I had self-published there would have been a lot more donkey work- buying my own [...]
Posted by: allanmayer on: August 27, 2009
A Crystal Meth True Story. I have often wondered over the past few months if any of the 400+ books published by YouWriteOn so far would break away from the pack and achieve high sales and sustained Amazon rankings. This week, I heard that ‘Tweaking the Dream’ by Clea Myers was starting to do exactly [...]
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 [...]