Lordy, how did I miss this?
Can anyone explain to me why it’s necessary to have a P.O. Box to get an ISBN? Can anyone explain what’s controversial about a release date?
Anyway, my main take on this is that if TP5 is still only 175 pages, and he’s still waiting for “stray authors,” he’s exactly where he was a month ago. He doesn’t have enough contributors to hit his 270 page goal.
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I took full advantage of it when I got one for my non-fiction book. I am laughing my ass off right now because the book is now published by lulu.com. When I get my P.O. Box I will get the other two Tabloid Purposes their ISBNS and then get an ISBN for Five when I get it ready. That book right now is 175 pages and still waiting for stray authors to come in. I can tell you this much. I take my time with the anthologies and edit them as I go along. I would rather take my time and release an anthology a little late and have a controversial release date than have it rushed.
I envision a bear trap when reading that.
Halbar Associates
Nick Pacione – Halbar Associates’ Sales Team MemberNick Pacione became a member of the Halbar team in June 2004. He has an in-depth knowledge of the Southwest territory. Born and raised in Arizona, his career includes experience in manufacturing, technical sales, and business management.
Before joining Halbar, Nick was a successful Manufacturers Representative covering the Southwest mountain states of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. His primary focus was mechanical products such as commercial/aerospace bearings and components, linear actuators/motion, and machine safeguarding.
Prior to being a Manufacturers Representative, Nick was a Sales Engineer for INA Bearing Company. His experience prior to this was with MGI Electronics performing worldwide sales and plant management for this semiconductor equipment manufacturer.
Nick has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and will be enrolling in the CPMR program at ASU.
http://www.halbar.net/sales-team.html
Come to think of it, “I take my time to clean my bear traps between authors” would be rather fitting. I know cleanliness and Nicky don’t go hand in hand, but he wouldn’t want the next victim to see the blood from the last, would he?
That was great imagery, Jerrod.
You’ve already done Sasquatches and Nessies. Would you consider doing an insect-related TT3 that involved long strips of fly paper? It’s good for nabbing spiders, bees, and other creepy-crawlies.
Come to think of it, killer bees have shown up in tabloids often.
And S.D., you’re drunk again, aren’t you?
OMGLMFAO. That big Nick is the opposite of our little Nick — brains, brawn, salesman — everything.
The Nick that could have been…
Or, the one that is, in his own mind . . .
Nicky does not understand that you don’t judge a book by its pages. You do it by word count.
Manuscript pages do not equal out directly to book pages. That all depends upon the type size chosen.
Going by lulu, which I am using for testing and proofs before going to LSI, Would produce a book with a basic cost of at least $10. Then lulu wants a piece of the profit on top of that.
Stray authors … must need some sizeable wire-cage traps for those … wonder what he’s using for bait?
You could always bash at the trap with a stick. Write up some really piss-poor story and submit it, then just when he is ready to go to print you inform him that you are pulling the rights to the story for publication elsewhere.
Childish, but it could lead to some lulz.
It’s backpedaling, Rus. He admitted to wanting to release the anthology on Sept. 11, as if anyone cares about his book, but the rats have fled the burning, sinking ship in such numbers, he’ll never have enough writers to get out anything over a hundred pages.
SSK, you watched a lot of Bugs Bunny / Elmer Fudd cartoons in your youth, didn’t you? 🙂
As are we all. The laughs never cease whenever Nicky shits out a new book…
Well that explains the smell…
one of my ulterior motives for using lulu for testing is that I’m waiting eagerly for Nicky to discover that the book is there and react with his usual spat of LULUZ.
“Nicky does not understand that you don’t judge a book by its pages. You do it by word count.”
Very true. Not long ago, I got a “novella” submission that was 50 pages. It was just over 4k.
But don’t forget he’s with a Sales Team.
Halbar, Lulu, & Associates.