Rant VIII: The Reckoning

Honestly, I'd start looking for a new publisher first. I don't know if you signed a contract with them or what, but part of a publisher's job should also be promotion. The fact that they have a bad rep as well is also bad.
It's not them with the bad rep. It's CreateSpace. I don't even know why.
 
Locally, I can't even get my book anywhere. The local comic store, Strange Adventures, turned it down because they said novels don't sell well at all there. The big local bookstore turned me down because Pro Se publishes through CreateSpace, which has a bad name among any bookseller that isn't Amazon (I guess they really undercut and screw over everyone else).
Basically because they are part of Amazon, the killer of brick-n-mortar bookstores.

They're considered a vanity publisher, and since it's basically free, aren't held in very high esteem by the book community.

My advice, it's free so you get what ya paid for, try expanding your writing arena. Dill is a very specific Noir audience, try working on some things (or thing) that is different. Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Adventure (can cover a variety of time periods), or even what you know best, a character that struggles with depression issues.

You've got talent, heck you can probably write circles around me while you're doing your DDP stuff, so don't give up, expand. Someone that I've seen give some decent advice about writing is Mark Evanier ( http://www.newsfromme.com/ ), he talks about a variety of things on his blog there, but has a recurring advice to writers entry that may be of help, or not.
 
It's not them with the bad rep. It's CreateSpace. I don't even know why.
bookstores require novels be returnable. Createspace's generally aren't. Booksellers generally want a 40% discount, which createspace doesn't give, either. Many indie bookstores see Amazon (and by extension, Createspace) as the enemy, and won't stock Createspace-printed books, even if the author himself brings them in on a consignment basis.

http://indiereader.com/2012/10/createspace-unwelcome-at-bookstores/
 
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After getting up to pee for the third time the other night, I said, "This is getting old."

Then it struck me. Peeing three times a night literally is getting old.
 

Dave

Staff member
After getting up to pee for the third time the other night, I said, "This is getting old."

Then it struck me. Peeing three times a night literally is getting old.
I hardly ever have to get up to pee. And no, I neither wet the bed nor wear Depends.
 
I once had a prostrate examination
By a doctor of the female persuasion
I pulled down my pants
But where she put her hands
Ugh! That was a most horrible sensation
 

Dave

Staff member
A prostate exam I could pass
with style and grace and - yes - class
But I could not linger
at the size of the finger
the doctor wanted to shove up my ass.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Terrik and I abandoned you to go off ... to produce amazing offspring
Figured as much.

But yeah, I saw that with Xcom and Fire Emblem coming out back to back, I knew I'd be cast adrift for a while. S'cool, I'm keeping myself busy in the NSFW forum most nights...

¬_¬
 
Figured as much.

But yeah, I saw that with Xcom and Fire Emblem coming out back to back, I knew I'd be cast adrift for a while. S'cool, I'm keeping myself busy in the NSFW forum most nights...

¬_¬
I'm sorry I stole your man, but if I sat at my computer while playing Fire Emblem to get on vent, all I'd say for hours is some variation of the word fuck. ;)
 
well me and bert conversed for a bit, but he had to run, said he would be back later. think ill watch when Gas gets on later haha.
 
Great. I am reasonably certain that a company who demonstrated interest in me, and interviewed me several times, simply wanted a markedly discounted consultation and to pick my brain in the guise of job interviews.
 
Come now, that never happens.

--Patrick
Yep, pretty much. They're a computational biology company but are expanding and claimed to want to bring somebody with a more bio-focused background onboard. I'm currently learning computer programming and trying to learn bioinformatics, but made no secret of the fact (and explicitly stated multiple times) that I had kludged things together multiple times in R and Unix but was NOT a programmer. Following the final interview (of three) I was told that my skills weren't what they were looking for because they needed someone who could employ their screening methods (e.g. computational bio).
 
It's 9:15am. I just got home from work. New girl was a no show no call. New girl is now gone girl.

I'm feeling kinda like Sonny today...
 
Five years ago, my life was thrown upside down - after an e-mail and a Google search.

Sadly, things appear to be repeating themselves.
 
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