http://getpaidtowriteonline.com/how-to-pick-a-publisher/
Synopsis:
Before you write, think about what the publisher needs. Your book will simply be a commodity he has to sell. Make sure you write with his needs in mind and you are much more likely to be successful.
September 6, 2007 at 10:41 am
Geez. I am so not surprised to find I’m bass ackwards yet again.
September 6, 2007 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the tip - it’s a great article
September 6, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Lou,
People want to read about sex Lou–kicking God out of the bedroom might be a great book many publishers might want to pick up. If that’s what you’re considering. If it’s your erotic fiction I don’t know. I’ve never bought a book of erotic friction that I recall (get it, “friction”?) but I suspect many people are buying it. And yours has style not just eroticism.
Hola Sharon,
Accomplished freelancer? 20,000 views at Ezine Articles? I think I need to rolodex you for future reference.
September 6, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I’m sort of working in both directions sans direction, but what I really need to do is bring in some money.
I’m wandering around in circles again.
September 6, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Oh, and interestingly enough, JanieBelle got an offer by email this morning about doing paid reviews for sex toys.
Geez, even my invisible friends can make money easier than I can.
iamsuchadork
September 6, 2007 at 1:33 pm
She said “yes” didn’t she?
You can sell your sex book as a report. 3-4 page website. Clickbank.com takes the money.
I don’t know how much money is in it, but that’s pretty much how I do my little report.
Check out this link and you can see what is being sold already:
Clickbank Searchable Marketplace
September 6, 2007 at 3:53 pm
She said “I’d like more information”, and we’re still waiting to hear back.
Are you talking a monthly report, or a single report?
Looks like it would fit in well there, and there doesn’t seem to be direct competition, although several reports hit all around it.
September 6, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Monthly has its appeal because you can collect from the same people month after month. I don’t know how much effort it would take, however, to put together something compelling each month.
And I’ve seen you in a dress so naked pics are out for you.
But if you just got started with a single book/report (lots of the stuff at CB is short–though any time I’ve sold something there I’ve put in lots of charts, graphs, worsheets, etc. to build it up to at least 150 pages), then you get your feet wet and get a feel for how this works.
I can help you if you want some help on the sales letter.
September 6, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Kevin, I’ll take every single little bit of help you’re willing to offer.
Perhaps, but you’ve never seen me in a burqa.
September 7, 2007 at 12:05 am
Lou - if the request came from our friends at Eden’s Fantasies, they hit up every sex blogger and the payment comes in the form of sex toys.
(At least that’s what i’ve heard…*delicate cough.*)
Oh. And they’ll never stop emailing her if she responded. You might want to consider the witness protection program.
Or dress in burqas. That should throw them off.
September 7, 2007 at 8:30 am
Thanks elise.
It did indeed come from Eden Fantasies, so thanks for the heads up.
I was thinking something along these lines.
Is it me?
September 7, 2007 at 10:25 am
hmm. skin tone and eye color would definitely be factors.
September 7, 2007 at 11:50 am
Blue eyes, but I’ll probably need a little spray on tan or something. Hair extensions, maybe.
Reference material. Not for the weak of heart.
September 7, 2007 at 2:23 pm
*stare*
September 9, 2007 at 9:24 am
Forgive me if that injured you in any physical or mental way.
There’s actually a story about why that came to pass.
Janie wrote about it here, and there are several references to it on my own blog, though not as complete.
September 9, 2007 at 5:46 pm
my little brain is doing a right fine job of coming up with scenarios on how that came to pass all by itself.
elise
September 11, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Well after two days, I got nuthin’. I’m just gonna hang my head and smile.
September 13, 2007 at 8:07 pm
*demure smile* what, precisely, did you want, please?
oh…and write, dammit.
elise
September 14, 2007 at 7:00 pm
hey, Lou…
Umm…are we having blog sex? *looking around* err…on someone else’s blog?
elise
September 20, 2007 at 7:29 pm
If we are, I have to have plausible deniability. If I’m completely ignorant of it, that’s probably best.
My wife’s kinda funny about that whole extra-marital computer sex thing.
…and she knows where I keep the framing hammer.
September 20, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Damn, that woman doesn’t miss a trick. Do you believe she just called me? She’s hundreds of miles away on a road trip, and called just as I was hitting the button.
I swear she has a psychic sense of “Lou’s misbehaving” smell.
September 20, 2007 at 7:39 pm
It’s a prophetic gift.
September 20, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Maybe if you believed in God he wouldn’t tattle on you?
September 20, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Yeah, what an obnoxious jerk with no sense of humor he
would beis.Ratting out your buddies is no way to gain friends.
Bastard.
September 21, 2007 at 12:13 am
Actually, Jesus would qualify as the bastard–just to be technical.
September 21, 2007 at 6:04 am
Y’know that got me thinking…
I have three people living in my head,
Yahweh has three people living in his head.
“Made in his image” might have something to it after all.
God has MBPD!!! (Multiple Blogging Personality Disorder) Either that, or I’m god but I forgot about it, in which God also has Alzheimer’s.
September 21, 2007 at 10:16 am
Finally the trinity explained so simply even young imaginary children can understand it.
September 21, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Okay. i’ve changed my mind. It isn’t me having blog sex. It’s you two.
Kinda hot, too. If you squint.
elise
September 22, 2007 at 12:23 am
I’m thinking it’s a blorgy.
September 22, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Ooo…major points for “blorgy.” i love making up new words. Can we add “blorgasm?” “blornication?”
elise
September 26, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I like ‘em.
I’m not grooving to blondage, blogondage, or other variants I’m coming up with though.
September 26, 2007 at 6:31 pm
okay, now it’s just kinda creepy. but not in a bad way.
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