The SLUSHPILE Blog

About two months ago I received an invitation from Night Owl Romance Reviews to submit my work, In the Brief Eternal Silence for review. This requet took me by surprise for two reasons:
1. I didn’t recall contacting them offering them the book (or, if I had contacted them, it had been so long ago I couldn’t [...]

Over the course of the last two weeks, I’ve talked to several new writers (so if any one of you is reading this and thinks that I am talking specifically about ‘you’ — relax, it’s a composite of you and several others in the recent past mixed in with the observations I have had in [...]

Last year at Art in the Park, it worked well to get our name out there, but the sales were less than encouraging.
This year, I am happy to report, the sales were moving briskly. In fact, I ‘escaped’ my public speaking slot because, I’m sure, every time our coordinator glanced my way, I was busy [...]

Last night we found myself in the bleachers of our local high-school, a member of a large and sometimes rowdy crowd in attendance for high-school graduation. No one warns you of the swelling of tears in your eyes at seeing your first-born make that dramatic walk down the aisle as commencement begins. He is our first, [...]

About a year ago, my husband brought me home a copier. Massive, heavy, and retailing for well over $5,000.00 used (heaven only knows how much it cost new), he and my son unloaded it from the back of our small pick-up truck by way of sliding it down a couple of two by fours (lifting [...]

The problem with a one man shop is that you have to do everything. I could argue that this is also the greatest advantage, because it gives you control over all aspects and you never need wonder if the to-do list is getting done, and getting done the way you want it done.
However, it does [...]

Okay, kids, here’s what’s cooking:
First up: I received word from Martha Dougherty (Bits and Pieces, Thirty-Six Years Later, and If Only I Could Talk) that her one day art show on Saturday went spectacularly well. What was even nicer is the reporter she had previously been contacted by drove the hour south from Pittsburgh and [...]

Reveiw Date: 04/13/2009
Rating:
Content Rich – Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web by Jon Wuebben, published by Encore Publishing Group (independent publisher), 270 pages (hardback edition)
Market Analysis:
Amazon sale price: $15.56. List Price: $19.95.
If this were a paperback printed on demand: cost per page: $0.013 = $3.51 to print + .90 per cover = Total print [...]

First, the bad news: Choice Books, whom I had sent samples, an abbreviated catalog and a cover letter to last week, has politely declined ordering anything at this time. Darn it.
Now, the good news: remember my thinking that perhaps the 70% discount that Choice Books requested to even consider carrying us may be what other [...]

In addition to working on Jim Spurr’s upcoming Reflections in the Wake, anticipating Martha being featured in a prominent newspaper, working up a proposal for Choice Books, switching out the discounts to wholesalers and retailers in general, and the on-going real estate classes (which I consider as my ‘extra-curricular’ activity), there’s another little on-going project [...]