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After a full day of writing - and doing laundry, dishes, cooking, the vacuuming, and having more than once drinks of rum and coke, I find this conversation still hilarious. I adore men and all that the title ensues. I believe in chivalry, and my heart flutters when a man holds a door for me. And yet I'm writing a trilogy where the main character, hero, and in fact the strength of society, is female. I am a woman, a redneck, and a horseman. (well, horsewoman) And I am following this thread with joy in my heart and a bowl of popcorn!

Write On my fellow scribes!

Vern, you are hysterical!

How about 'piddly-squattin, no-account, piss-ant'. Heard it on "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" movie, but heard it much of my life in Texas. Never heard it anywhere else.

I think you did find. I wouldn't take that from anyone. If they don't want folks to share their successes and other announcements, then what the heck is their use? I applaud your response and support your decision to not renew. Personally, I think you held great restraint.

Yay! Proud of you! I have to say that marketing has been a challenge for me as well. I know a lady who writes historical fiction and she is known for setting up a sales table at local museums. She usually sells out - about a hundred I think. Two big boxes. I like to sit at the feed stores and I do book fairs all over the place. If you were in Texas I'd suggest Texas Authors Assn. The founder does all the leg work finding book fairs.

I'll get a Kindle copy.
BTW, I'm back on, too. An out of this world YA this time. No horses, can you believe it?

Write On!
MzP

Sounds like some sort of virus. I had to take my computer into the geeks to have it removed. The thing gets installed when you click on a picture on facebook which has been infected. Nasty things. I got Malware installed on my computer and I haven't had any trouble since. I'd get it checked pretty quick, it can slow your computer so bad it will start crashing. Mine did. And I'm not sure if someone can't get into your private stuff with some of that. Of course I don't have anything to hack, but I got rid of it anyway.

Welcome to the site. I hope you'll learn as much in here as I have. It's better than going to university for a 4 year degree.

Heather, only people who are registered can read the content. I believe there is still a free period of time. I had a couple of friends who joined free last year so they could read my novel, but they never upgraded as far as I know. There used to be a 'read only' membership. You could message Sol and find out.
MzP

This sounds interesting. A cool opportunity to learn how to pitch from someone I actually trust. I take it you'll only publish articles which are worthy? Also who is the audience and how will the articles be delivered?

Hi, LillyRose, first, you can always click the button at the top of the forum messages and start a new thread. Second That is in no way a stupid question. It's a great question. I don't have the answer. However I've been trying to obtain permission to use song lyrics in my book Big Hearts. I finally gave up on waiting for an answer, I'll either rewrite, or let an agent deal with it (which they do)

However, I did call the copyright people and asked them directly. I got a form to mail to the copyright owner and the woman I spoke to explained how I could search for that owner in the database. It took time, I didn't have fun. Anyway, here's the number I called (202) 702-3002. It's on the copyright dot gov site. They are really friendly. I've called them several times.

Good luck!