Will be posting something in the Workshops bit, because this morning I suddenly decided to go for that mentorship thingy the M. Milburn agency is running and the deadline is the day after tomorrow. I need fresh eyes quickly!
Welcome To The Oldest & Best Colony For Writers On The Net.
Rachel Caldecott
Profile posts Latest activity Postings Media Albums About
-
Thank you Short Story Hunters!!! Barbara, you did me proud! I am honoured to have been included in this podcast.
Sorry for missing the Huddle. I'd been working on the market in 38° C (shade) and fell asleep on the sofa when I got home. (And all for a measly 40€. I need to write a best seller!!)
I didn't do anything, but I've worked out that it appears at £20 for people looking at the UK amazon site from France. If you are elsewhere it seems fine. The third-party, BB Corps UK, selling my book at such a ridiculous price, is based in Lyon. So I remain confused but sent both Amazon and these interlopers stern emails.
In a panic! As you know I released my memoir the other day. On Amazon Uk site it should be at £9.50. Someone sent me a message (and I checked myself) it is being sold at £20 with delivery times of 2-3 weeks! What the hell is happening? And how the hell do I stop it?
Cool! Just heard my first story on Short Story Hunters. Quite a surreal experience. Barbara read it beautifully. I'm quite chuffed. Thank guys. I'm not used to the idea of people actually reading something I've written. My own family never read anything of mine.
I have to apologise for not regularly attending the huddles and pop-ups. Our house is open plan. My computer sits in the living room, a few feet from the TV and also the kitchen. If I join in a Litopia event it means that the whole household comes to a standstill. I'm also back to sharing my computer with my daughter which makes things doubly hard. But I'm with you all in spirit!
I need help with formatting & pagination of the interior of my book. I thought I'd sorted it, but hadn't. Any ideas, volunteers, or suggestions of someone on Fiverr?
Aghghggha! Trying to format my word doc to create a paperback version of Blown. But my computer is in French and is running a different generation of programme to all the instructions I have in English. It might be time for a cup of tea.
Well done Rachel. Just bought a copy. You can post it 'The Marketplace' on Litopia. Click the 'Forums' tab at the top of this page and scroll to the bottom. you will see it there. Also post a clean link to the book anywhere you can. By clean I mean
Amazon product ASIN B093WPQK5Q
(Amazon product ASIN B093WPQK5Q)
I'm I allowed to get excited? I just published my book today. Where can I post it here to brag about it? Because my husband is asleep on the sofa and I'm feeling a little disappointed. The fanfare didn't show up.
Somehow Amazon has published a version of my book yesterday, that I uploaded on KDP today? I'm completely confused and horrified.
It is RK Capp's birthday today! Sending her huge hugs!
Got my daughter and granddog back today. I am beyond happy.
I checked my account the other day. I had received $5.60 in royalties. My bank charged me 5.00€ to process them. So I actually earned 0.39 cents! YAY!
Defintely building up material for a kick ass memoir. My daughter's problems, my son involved with a girl who self harms because she was abused by her step father, and now my brother has a weird flesh eating fungus caught when his wrist was impaled by a 7cm long African acacia thorn. Bring it on Universe I'm taking notes!
Can't think about anything else except my lovely daughter. Not only is she suffering her first real heartbreak, but is having a biopsy right now in a UK hospital while I'm far away, locked down in France. Life sucks right now.
We were all excited about being given dates for our Astra Zenica jabs... but the French have suspended them for at least 24 hours. So who knows if we will be 'done' or not. Sigh. As the threat of more lockdowns increase, the chances of me seeing my two depressed kids in the UK is looking less and less likely. Damn it!
As I prepare to launch my latest book, I have been scratching my head at some of the PR stuff Indie authors should do. For example: 'They' (Mailchimp) effectively want me to create a mailing list in order to ask people to join my mailing list.
As I venture more into the world of Twitter, I find ever new and 'interesting' inhabitants. Like the man who told me on his profile he is "following Jesus", and the woman who announced on hers, "I am sexy ladys".
Someone has been very nice to me today, so I'm very grateful and happy... the sun has come out!
Just arranged for my book, The Panopticon Experiment to be sent to a blogger. She asked for it back in November, but Amazon KDP hasn't been cooperating. But... I just discovered she is a Trump supporter, so I can almost guarantee she won't like my story.
Regarding your daughter's position, the lesson for her is that business is business, not that some books are rubbish. Her illustrations can still shine. Lots of books on Amazon are crap and that encourages me. If I can be better than the crap I might sell a few books.
On the other hand my son has a week to find assorted theatre people to talk about the state of live theatre under covid restrictions. He's getting a lot of responses. Plus I've been invited to submit a 5000 word chapter in a joint book about people giving up their homes and moving abroad.
My poor daughter has just learned an important lesson. She has been commissioned to illustrate her first children's book. She signed the contract and received the first installment of money... BEFORE being sent the text. She agreed to do it purely because of the interesting concept. Sadly, it is terrible! No wonder it was turned down and the author is now trying to self-publish.
Don't you just hate it when you ask a specialist publisher if you can send your whole m/s, they say yes, but reject you with a standard rejection letter after clearly not having read past the chapter headings (the give away was when they added, "All my team agreed they would be very interested to read your whole story, and I'm sure many others will, too.") Seriously I expected better from a small press.
So my rescheduled moment of fame happened. Sadly my brain and mouth were not connected at the time. https://soundcloud.com/.../sunday-1st-november-sunday...
I was 3rd person interviewed 55:43-1:00:55 (and sounded like a posh twit)
I was due to be interviewed yesterday evening by a radio station via Skype (not something I had to pay for!), and 2 mins before the call, I was ready and prepared for it. Suddenly my internet and landline disappeared until10am today. So yesterday we had 2nd covid lockdown and the universe picking on me.
I haven't been here much recently. Getting the kids to the UK in August was (and continues to be) more traumatic than we could have imagined. Since they left I did manage to finish two manuscripts, now being beta read before copy-editing. Now having a break while I worry about the kids and decide whether it's necessary to do some sort of suicide prevent visit (not joking - it really is that bad with one) Bloody kids!
Well, getting the kids to the UK has been more traumatic than anticipated. Son's computer was smashed, he arrived to a house devoid of life and furniture, and is having no luck finding work (thanks to covid) and is lonely & bored. Daughter is driving up with new boyfriend to face 2 weeks quarantine in UK. Worse is that the boyfriend turns out to be a control freak nut-job with serious OCD & anger issues. -
Loading…
-
Loading…
-
Loading…
-
Loading…
-
Loading…