When newbie authors are asked about their publishing experience, the phrase “It’s overwhelming” would surface within the top three responses. And it is. There is expansive information about publishing. Multiple books have been written on every aspect of it. Public and...
It ticks me off when I hear about authors getting scammed. It ticks me off when I get lied to. And it really ticks me off when authors I work with get scammed. Publishing Predators come in all kinds of sizes and shapes. In all kinds of titles and services. Some come...
Several years ago, I wrote and published Sabotage: How to Deal with the Pit Bulls, Skunks, Snakes, Scorpions & Slugs in the Health Care Workplace. It was all about the bad boys and girls who created what I referred to as the toxic workplace of bad behaviors—the...
Starting down the publishing path takes money—don’t let anyone … anyone … tell you that it doesn’t. Sure, there are ways to create a book and publish it for minimal dollars. And, it usually looks like it. And there are multiple ways you can create a Cadillac...
Be careful of what is known as a “pitch fest.” Pitched to newbie authors as education, they are really designed to lure them in (and their credit cards) to buy, buy, buy and buy some more. What are they buying? Products, services, trainings—you name it. Pitch fests...
Oh … the surprises that get buried within the Holiday merriment. Here’s what happened in Predatorland on December 31, 2015:“Penguin Random House has sold its Author Solutions division to an affiliate of the Najafi Companies, a private investment firm that at one point...
