Shannon Yarbrough

author, poet, and painter

PODdy Mouth Headed for The Toilet? April 16, 2008

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Angela Hoy over at Writer’s Weekly has put a bounty on PODdy Mouth, offering to pay $500 for her true identity.  Angela, owner of the POD service known as Booklocker, is mad at PODdy for posting false information on her blog about Booklocker and other POD Publishers.

This is going to be just as fun as all the bad publicity Amazon has been getting lately over their POD monopoly.

Apparently, PODdy doesn’t have much to say and has even blacklisted Angela from posting responses on PODdy’s blog.  Read all about it over at Preditors and Editors.

 

More support on rejection… April 16, 2008

Filed under: shannon yarbrough — shannonyarbrough @ 6:26 am

Thanks to Cliff Burns and Paisley and Plaid on their feedback.  Paisley’s site gives a list of other authors who were once rejected and went on to achieve great fame.

Cliff’s advice is definitely some I’ve already taken into consideration.  I’ve done my homework.  I picked a handful of agents (mostly from agentquery.com) who handled my style of writing.  Dare I say it…I bought a copy of The Writer’s Market this year.  I haven’t bought one of those since high school, but I was able to get one for a buck this year by signing up with QPB again.  I also bought a subscription to The Writer magazine this year hoping it will keep me motivated.

Even with all of these steps and all of my determination, I do accept the fact that I still may never be published traditionally.  If so, I guess I’d go down the self-publishing path again.  All of this reminds me of a PostSecret postcard I recently came across.  It said…

Salary for teaching creative writing……$32,452.00

Salary for writing creatively…….$0.00