Friday, November 27, 2009

Has Anyone Had Experience With The Gerson Therapy

Fall



Today has dawned with leaden skies and fog caressing the rooftops of buildings. At last we have embraced the fall, at least here in the south, perished reluctant to visit. Honestly, I missed a day now after so many mornings with hardly a cloud on the horizon to scan.

The opposition began to prepare the end of September, unable to absorb the short time I have available, which is why I fail to find or even five minutes a day in which to update the blog, so the lack the comments are likely to vary in the coming weeks. Still, they barely, taking a little bit of here and there, achieving further progress in my second novel.

Indeed, in these last days again refused to publish "Vendetta", Uranus was the protagonist. The practice makes a habit, and habit of the monk, so just because I do not even flinch. The only thing I appreciated is that, strange as it seems, all mail that to date I have received from publishers, I have been sent in the afternoon. It seems as if devote mornings to sharpen knives and afternoon chose to designate the next victim.

Monday, November 16, 2009

How To Maintain A Weave

Those who do not deserve ... Good luck


Two weeks ago I finished reading 'In the dragon's mouth "by Ken Follet. Sincerely, except the last thirty pages of it, the rest of the work lacks interest and even flirts dangerously with a kind of boredom that, without even realizing it, seems to gobble up that begins to develop the final outcome. That said, the novel is a bestseller, or what is, thousands of copies sold.

goes without saying that if 'In the dragon's mouth "would have been the work of a fledgling writer, is very possible that, with difficulty, had managed to surface literary, but of course, its author was already a renowned writer ... It is precisely at this point I wish to take you. The margin has a famous writer, from time to time, write a book well below their usual level, and yet, the facility has so that it is a bestseller. It seems as if, after reaching the sumun of literary gods, anything out of his gold Seseras to become nothing more touching, while those who try to start, if we just listen to us under the heavy slab indifference.

The answer to my musings soon came swiftly to my head, I had just asked me why I had decided to read this novel after reading Pillars of the Earth - Follett Mr summit work in my humble opinion - I began to devour all his creations until I finally stumbled on "In the dragon's mouth." After thinking few seconds, I saw clearly the solution: two or three works of high quality can make the rest of your novels to become best-seller, because we have tens of thousands of fans who devour everything as you have written, or what is, the older brother comes to help the small, the weak, and, ultimately, from that to which the fairies were elusive.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Telescope Bourne Identity

longed


Have you ever thought what in your life to chance ?..., have influenced the fate ?..., "good fortune"?

The question I have just made is the result of a thought that has me meditating on much of this week. I am aware that the current situation we are facing can have a significant negative in those novice authors seeking to see published his first book, not in vain, it is difficult to publish the second for those who achieved the first objective. Although I also believe that if instead of having finished writing "Vendetta" this year, I would have done two or three, probably the chances of the work would have been much higher, and once, years ago, publishers and agencies showed much more receptive, not meditating both bet on a novel writer. "They will influence factors such as chance and luck in the fact that more than one novel should be published, do not get so precious loot? Honestly I think so.

This last thought is a collation of an e-mail I received earlier this week by the editor of a young editorial. The answer to my proposal was very sincere edition, a fact that an exceedingly grateful. He told me that when they began the business project chose to edit two lines, one aimed at the publication of best-sellers of foreign authors who had owned successful in those countries where published, and a second aimed at the publication of works of new authors. However, because of the (literal) "... very high percentage of returns, little or no background rotation, high margin for retailers and department stores, very high pressure at the outlets of large publishing groups, spectacular falling sales and the number of visitors to libraries , very little depth of the funds in the libraries, low visibility of titles little rotation, etc ...), finally led them to temporarily suspend the publication of new writers.

Pity, perhaps if I had come a few months ago ...

Stress, finally, I made another assessment the editor in question: " Against this background and before rejecting all the books that had been offered, we decided to go for a new format, the electronic book or ebook to print as possible. To assess the commercial viability of the proposal for an auditing firm commissioned a market study and the result has again been disappointing. No or very few sales, production costs borne by the authors, and over 97% of cases the final purchaser of the book is the author or his family and friends.

could offer to publish his book as an ebook but feel that you are deceiving because although the cost of such proposal is zero or very low for both parties, profitability is also very low or no . "

At least I have the feeling that there are still sincere and honest people in this world full of black vultures that hover on the lookout for that who decides to leave his work die.