WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!! I'm going international!!! Oh wait, no I'm not. I mean, my books are sold overseas now BUT its not because of my publisher. You would think that MY publisher would want my best interest in mind, since it would translate into more sales for them. Guess not. Here is the latest letter of PROMISE from my publisher. I cant wait for my contract to be up.
Dear Author:
PublishAmerica will submit your book for translation into a foreign language!
PublishAmerica books have already been translated into an array of foreign languages that include Spanish, Greek, Korean, Swedish, and Icelandic.
We will now submit your book for review to the world's number one international publisher, Bertelsmann, which owns publishing companies in numerous countries and sells books in just about every country in the world, in all major languages. They are headquartered in Germany, not far from where the Frankfurt Book Fair takes place.
We will submit not one, but up to five copies of your book to the attention of their foreign rights reviewers, so that they can pass copies around as needed. We will alert you immediately as soon as they show interest, as we have done with other authors whose books piqued translation interest. Since PublishAmerica is not affiliated with Bertelsmann, we would be very proud to see you become yet another translated PublishAmerica author!
Here's how we do it:
If you want to have books on hand, order now, and receive a 50 pct discount!
We will ship your books to you, and we will donate an EXTRA up to five copies
to Bertelsmann's foreign language reviewers, at no cost to you.
Go to www.publishamerica.net, find your book, click on it, then add to cart, indicate quantity, and use this coupon: Foreign50. Then click Recalculate and finish the transaction. Minimum volume is 9 copies.
In the Ordering Instructions field, if you have a special foreign language
in mind that you'd love to see your book translated into, write it down,
and we'll pass it on.
Full-color and hardcovers excluded. Offer expires this weekend on Sunday night.
Thank you,
PublishAmerica Author Support Team
Look Out Sandra Bullock Here Comes The Flood
I’ve heard that age old saying, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” but I’ve had enough. When I first signed on with Publish America I was excited beyond belief that someone wanted to publish my work. That feeling has since past.
Publish America has hurt me more than they ever could have helped me but I’m taking this as a learning experience. I’ve started my own company, Writing With Power, in which I have control over what I release and how much it’s going to cost.
Publish America seems to think that its authors are pure dumb and sends out these emails telling us of these GREAT and wonderful deals. Well now I’m passing the humor onto you, this is where I am biting the hand. Each time I get an email that is such a GREAT deal I am going to repost it. It starts with the email below. Look out Sandra Bullock, you’re about to get flooded.
Dear Author:
PublishAmerica will send your book to Oscar winner Sandra Bullock!
Sunday night's Best Actress won the award for her role in The Blind Side, a movie based on a book that she read before she agreed to play the role.
We will now submit your book to Sandra Bullock and ask her to read it.
Here's how we do it for authors who choose to have a few extra books on hand:
Go to www.publishamerica.net, find your book, click on it, then add to cart, indicate quantity, and use this coupon: SandraBullock25. Then click Recalculate and finish the transaction. Minimum volume is only 6 copies. You will receive your books at a 25 pct discount, and we will print an extra copy that we will send to Sandra Bullock at no cost to you, or more if she requests more, also at no cost to you.
In the Ordering Instructions field, you may write a note for Sandra if you want.
We will include your note when we ship your book to her. Note that PublishAmerica
will keep your note confidential, and that Sandra Bullock may treat your book and
your personal note in any way she chooses.
Full-color and hardcovers excluded. Offer expires this weekend on Sunday night.
Thank you,
PublishAmerica Author Support Team
So am I biting for no reason???
Publish America has hurt me more than they ever could have helped me but I’m taking this as a learning experience. I’ve started my own company, Writing With Power, in which I have control over what I release and how much it’s going to cost.
Publish America seems to think that its authors are pure dumb and sends out these emails telling us of these GREAT and wonderful deals. Well now I’m passing the humor onto you, this is where I am biting the hand. Each time I get an email that is such a GREAT deal I am going to repost it. It starts with the email below. Look out Sandra Bullock, you’re about to get flooded.
Dear Author:
PublishAmerica will send your book to Oscar winner Sandra Bullock!
Sunday night's Best Actress won the award for her role in The Blind Side, a movie based on a book that she read before she agreed to play the role.
We will now submit your book to Sandra Bullock and ask her to read it.
Here's how we do it for authors who choose to have a few extra books on hand:
Go to www.publishamerica.net, find your book, click on it, then add to cart, indicate quantity, and use this coupon: SandraBullock25. Then click Recalculate and finish the transaction. Minimum volume is only 6 copies. You will receive your books at a 25 pct discount, and we will print an extra copy that we will send to Sandra Bullock at no cost to you, or more if she requests more, also at no cost to you.
In the Ordering Instructions field, you may write a note for Sandra if you want.
We will include your note when we ship your book to her. Note that PublishAmerica
will keep your note confidential, and that Sandra Bullock may treat your book and
your personal note in any way she chooses.
Full-color and hardcovers excluded. Offer expires this weekend on Sunday night.
Thank you,
PublishAmerica Author Support Team
So am I biting for no reason???
Have You Ever
Have You Ever
Have you ever been in love?
Giving away your heart, body, and soul?
Longing for a touch,
Only they can make you whole?
Have you ever been in love?
Your thoughts no longer your own?
Nothing else matters,
Until you talk in person or on the phone?
Have you ever been in love?
You can’t breathe?
Everything you do
Is for them to receive?
Have you ever been in love?
Have you ever babbled on and on?
Have you ever been in love?
Have you ever felt this strong?
Max M. Power
Have you ever been in love?
Giving away your heart, body, and soul?
Longing for a touch,
Only they can make you whole?
Have you ever been in love?
Your thoughts no longer your own?
Nothing else matters,
Until you talk in person or on the phone?
Have you ever been in love?
You can’t breathe?
Everything you do
Is for them to receive?
Have you ever been in love?
Have you ever babbled on and on?
Have you ever been in love?
Have you ever felt this strong?
Max M. Power
Truer Words Were Never Spoken
Fake friends never ask for food. Real friends are the reason why u have no food. Fake friends call your parents mr/mrs. Real friends call your parents mom/dad. Fake friends bail u out of jail and tell u wat u did was wrong. Real friends would sit next to u sayin. . "Dam. . We fucked up. . But that shit was fun! Fake friends hav never seen u cry. Real friends cry with u. Fake friends will leave u behind if thats wat the crowd is doing. Real friends will kick the whole crowds ass that left u. Fake friends are for awhile. Real friends are for life. Fake friends will talk shit to the person who talks shit about u. Real friends will knock them the fuck out.
Crossroads
We have all been there at one point in our lives, crossroads. Some by choice, others, without warning, all life changing. It’s what we do when we come to these crossroads that will haunt us forever.
Two little words, a question really, so tiny yet so powerful, powerful enough to tear us apart at times. What if? What if I did this instead of that? What if I had just said what they wanted to hear? What if, what if, what if?
Then there are those crossroads that we have no control over, decisions made for us by other people. Do we blame others for the outcome of our lives? Do we hold on to the anger that can consume us or let it go and say thank you?
Things happen, shit happens, ultimately LIFE happens. Do we say it’s Fate or Destiny, two cold hearted bitches that could care less what we feel, and just accept that there is no changing what has happened? Do you make a deal with the devil to get what you want, after all crossroads is where he resides?
We all handle these crossroads differently. We step up; feel the tingle in the middle of our back as a blanket of coldness surrounds us. We take a deep breath and hope we make the right decision or the right decision has been made for us.
We look through the looking glass and see two futures, one we will live and one we could have lived as a tiny voice whispers, “Welcome to another crossroads. Ha ha ha ha…”
Two little words, a question really, so tiny yet so powerful, powerful enough to tear us apart at times. What if? What if I did this instead of that? What if I had just said what they wanted to hear? What if, what if, what if?
Then there are those crossroads that we have no control over, decisions made for us by other people. Do we blame others for the outcome of our lives? Do we hold on to the anger that can consume us or let it go and say thank you?
Things happen, shit happens, ultimately LIFE happens. Do we say it’s Fate or Destiny, two cold hearted bitches that could care less what we feel, and just accept that there is no changing what has happened? Do you make a deal with the devil to get what you want, after all crossroads is where he resides?
We all handle these crossroads differently. We step up; feel the tingle in the middle of our back as a blanket of coldness surrounds us. We take a deep breath and hope we make the right decision or the right decision has been made for us.
We look through the looking glass and see two futures, one we will live and one we could have lived as a tiny voice whispers, “Welcome to another crossroads. Ha ha ha ha…”
Destiny
Destiny
Do you know who you are?
Who you are meant to be?
Do you know where you’re going?
What you want to see?
Are you just here?
Or do you have a plan?
Will you go it alone?
Will you hold someone’s hand?
Will you rock it out loud?
Will you read about it on a Dell?
Will you be at peace in heaven?
Will you kick it hard in hell?
Nature has a plan,
Soak up the sun.
Will you burn out with the masses?
Or will you stand up and be the ONE!
Do you know who you are?
Who you are meant to be?
Do you know where you’re going?
What you want to see?
Are you just here?
Or do you have a plan?
Will you go it alone?
Will you hold someone’s hand?
Will you rock it out loud?
Will you read about it on a Dell?
Will you be at peace in heaven?
Will you kick it hard in hell?
Nature has a plan,
Soak up the sun.
Will you burn out with the masses?
Or will you stand up and be the ONE!
Slaps
Slaps
Where are the slaps on soap operas? Seriously, back in the 80’s and 90’s you have day time and night time soaps that everyone watched. If you honestly don’t think Dallas, Dynasty, 90210, or Melrose Place were NOT soaps think again.
The one thing about all those soaps was that, for the day time soaps that came out five days a week, some got slapped at least once a week. I’m not talking light love taps, I’m talking the kind of slaps that you could feel it through your TV and you were rooting for it to happen.
SLAP HER! DO IT! SLAP HER!!!
For those night time soaps, with the exception of Dynasty, someone got slapped at least once a month, since it only aired four times a month they could not do it every show.
Dynasty had someone getting slapped ALL the time. In fact there were drinking games made just for someone getting slapped in that show. Every time someone got slapped you took a shot and whoever was not passed out by the end of the show won.
Slapping in soaps use to be an art form. I know a few women in my family who must have taken lessons from Susan Lucci. Come on, you ALL know she was the first person who popped in your head when you started reading this article. She coined the term “Bitch Slap.” If not for her soaps would have been boring.
Anyways, as I watch my soaps, one that I use to watch with my mother, who has since given up soaps but back in the day you should tell you about them all, well her and my aunts, love you ladies, I notice that no one gets slapped anymore. I have seen a couple of bad right hooks by the guys but the women, come on, where the heck are the slaps. The tension is so high that I find myself shouting at the tube, SLAP HER! DO IT! SLAP HER ALREADY!!! only to see them walk away.
I’m probably gonna get slapped for writing this but hey, if I can get it on film and send it to the soap people MAYBE they can bring back why people use to watch those shows to begin with, the drama, of slapping people.
Max M. Power
P.S. Yes I do watch Young and the Restless and I blame the women in my life for getting me hooked. It’s like the Godfather III, “Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in.”
Where are the slaps on soap operas? Seriously, back in the 80’s and 90’s you have day time and night time soaps that everyone watched. If you honestly don’t think Dallas, Dynasty, 90210, or Melrose Place were NOT soaps think again.
The one thing about all those soaps was that, for the day time soaps that came out five days a week, some got slapped at least once a week. I’m not talking light love taps, I’m talking the kind of slaps that you could feel it through your TV and you were rooting for it to happen.
SLAP HER! DO IT! SLAP HER!!!
For those night time soaps, with the exception of Dynasty, someone got slapped at least once a month, since it only aired four times a month they could not do it every show.
Dynasty had someone getting slapped ALL the time. In fact there were drinking games made just for someone getting slapped in that show. Every time someone got slapped you took a shot and whoever was not passed out by the end of the show won.
Slapping in soaps use to be an art form. I know a few women in my family who must have taken lessons from Susan Lucci. Come on, you ALL know she was the first person who popped in your head when you started reading this article. She coined the term “Bitch Slap.” If not for her soaps would have been boring.
Anyways, as I watch my soaps, one that I use to watch with my mother, who has since given up soaps but back in the day you should tell you about them all, well her and my aunts, love you ladies, I notice that no one gets slapped anymore. I have seen a couple of bad right hooks by the guys but the women, come on, where the heck are the slaps. The tension is so high that I find myself shouting at the tube, SLAP HER! DO IT! SLAP HER ALREADY!!! only to see them walk away.
I’m probably gonna get slapped for writing this but hey, if I can get it on film and send it to the soap people MAYBE they can bring back why people use to watch those shows to begin with, the drama, of slapping people.
Max M. Power
P.S. Yes I do watch Young and the Restless and I blame the women in my life for getting me hooked. It’s like the Godfather III, “Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in.”
Another Book Signing
I will be joining a VERY talented writer this Saturday, Dorlana Vann, as she signs copies of her book "Death: Passage to Mesentia and Jaclyn's Ghost" at Read it Again & Again Book Store in Houston, from 12pm to 3pm. If you can please join us. I will be signing copies of “The Story Teller: A Roller Coaster for Your Mind.”
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