So Gary:
Are you sure you’re not doing all of this just to get us to buy your latest novel? Build up a rabid fan base, and then unleash the monster. Let’s see, how would an internet marketer do it? Double opt-in for a FREE download of the first chapter only, then hit us with a subscription fee once a month for the never ending novel…

Hi Lesley:
Thanks so much for stopping by just to give me compliments. It doesn’t get any better than that.
My question is: If your author friend has a list of followers, who needs the d**n publisher? They should all be very afraid…

Hi Bobby:
Thanks for the nice thoughts. I only wrote that to show myself and others that we all have a beginning. So many of us are in the same boat. Another month from now, we won’t believe how far we’ve come… My daughter is five too. What a great age. I’m going to end here, because I’m coming to your site tomorrow for a visit, and we’ll talk more there…

Thanks all,
Denis

Thanks guys. From now on, my way of doing things, is to visit and comment FIRST on all the sites of the great folks who have paid me a visit the day before. That’s how I will find you.

You all have inspired me into writing another post…I’m working on it now. Stay tuned…

Dropping in on your site after reading Garry’s lastest Profit Pulling Project update.

You are very talented and quite clever! I look forward to seeing what develops on your site.

I just want to put a bug in your ear Denis. A friend of mine has written a book, and talking to a number of top publishers. Here is the interesting thing. They all asked her what size data base did she have. They were talking about her “LIST” of followers. Yes, we are back to the subject of list building being a huge new part of the commercial publishing world.

So ROCK ON with the list building, put your mind focus and intentions on what it is you wish to create, and then GO FOR IT!!

Lesley “UNPACKAGEABLE SPIRIT” Morgan

http://www.lesleymorgan.com

I really wanted to leave a message about that fabulous page where you have the PPP featured in some comical settings. I think it’s GREAT! But you are up against stiff competition from Paull Hamilton.

But back to book publishing. I hear you bro’.

Over here we had a book on all the media outlets getting plugged like there was no tomorrow. The author was being praised as though she were JK Rowling. It was a novel supposedly along the lines of the DaVinci code except instead of the generational progression of Jesus through the ages it was His nemesis, Satan.

I thought – WOW! – I wanna read that. I raced down to the bookshop and they were selling them like hot cakes. I started it that night and by the end of Chapter 1 I was really confused. The story was all over the shop like a mad woman’s sh*t.

I chugged through a dozen chapters and I was so disappointed. It was pure unadulterated crap. One of the worst novels I have ever read. I finished it. It wasn’t until the last couple of chapters that it became even remotely interesting. What a HUGE let-down.

I have given my bound manuscript novel to two people – one is a close relative. She scored it at 7.5/10. Another fellow, who was a complete stranger, rated it at 8.5/10 and said it was much better than most novels he read.

But here is this lady selling 100’s of 1,000’s of novels and me selling ZERO – so far.

Remember the guy who told Bill Gates that computers would have NO commercial application? And the guy who turned the Beatles down for a recording contract? Well, they are the bloody drongos in charge.

Fight past them Denis. I’m going to. Then I will send them an autographed copy with the message … “SHOULDA, COULDA – DIDN’T”

Gary

Just working my way around the students blogs to say hi and keep up the good work.
Des

My tech guy (my first outsource-elance), and I, had a few go-arounds about the size of the font. I thought that originally it was too large and he said what I wanted was too small. (I think Garry Parkes has smaller font than me). I even asked him if he was using a little laptop. I was wondering if I was seeing the same size as everyone else. We decided to let it sit for a few days and see what happens. I was teetering on the brink of making it a little bigger. Ron (tech guy)said that editing this theme is a little different. For fonts, it uses per cent, instead of a point size. I still have some notes and I may be able to figure things out. If you’re more techie than me, maybe you’ll know what he’s talking about.

I shopped around a children’s book-rejected by 6 publishers, without one of them even reading a page. Part of the reason I’m now doing internet marketing, is to provide the financial freedom to do whatever I damn well please. I’ll self publish every last book, poem, and piece of music that I have. With DOD printing and Amazon, who needs ‘em. It won’t be long before musicians will no longer need record companies either. They’ll all be doing it themselves online. The product doesn’t matter-Once you understand the concept of internet marketing-you’ll be able to sell anything online. Again, what we’re learning now is only a fraction of what we’ll accomplish and become. I know, I’m preaching to the choir…

I’ve just finished my post offering for the “PPP” newsletter. I think it’s kinda cool. Humor is my style. I’ll see how this goes over in the group…

Denis

I read your comments above – all very worthy.

I know the frustration of being an unpublished writer. I have a 200,000 word crime-thriller that I have been hawking around. You should see some of the unbelievable CR*P that I get back signed only by a squiggle and denoted as the Assistant to the Deputy Assistant of the Administrator to the General Manager’s Technical Editor.

Worse, it is always on a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy that is so faint and crooked with all those lines and splotches and marks on it. And then they say a pile of w*nk like “after CAREFULLY considering your novel we regret to advise… blah, blah, blah.”

D-Man, how they can form such an opinion by NEVER even reading one word of it, seeing the quality of it, the mock covers or ANTHING else about it except the STRICT – in no more than one hundred words OUTLINE your plot and tell us how much money your novel will make for us and which demographics it will appeal to – I will NEVER know.

The publishing industry is in the shite because of its own incredible greed and lack of structure to detect good writers from fashionistas who appeal to “critics” who always have their geas up their a** anyway.

Rant over!

OK. I was wondering if you can increase the size of the font here as it is like the bottom line of an eye test. What is it 8 point? It’s too small Denis.

Also, thanks for your comment over at Gary-Land about all that spam garbage. I need to go through and delete about 10 or more of those things from my site. I have indeed launched Akismet because I was getting over 20 of them per day and one day I was pounded by 103 of them. What is it with these spammers? All they produce is excrement and they expect us to look at it as though it is treasure.

OK. Gotta go.

Regards

Gazz-Man from Gazz-Land