Nathan Bransford - The Forums

I would predict, a $99 e-reader before Christmas. Surely you mean before LAST Christmas, don't you? Big Lots was selling them for $89.00, and recently put them on sale for $79.00. Admittedly, these are no name/no wifi brands, but as one reviewer has said, they are terrific "entry level" d...

It's...it's...just WONDERBAR! Perfect score and all. But why am I suddenly craving a corn dog?

Nice work, guys.

rose

By platforms, do you mean software formats or distributors? Smashwords, which I am working with now, takes a word doc file and smushes it into formatted ebooks appropriate for each distribution channel. Off the top of my head these formats include html, pdf, epub, mobi, kindle, sony, and txt, but yo...

I have been testing the Smashwords waters, in preparation for publishing the memoir I am co-author on. Smashwords does all the conversions needed to make a word .doc file readable on different devices. Once that is done, the book is then examined to see if it meets the stricter requirements of the i...

Oh, dear. I'm not going there, JT. I was thinking Chicklets. I was ahem, just poking my nose in to give Quill props for the very same line: Detecti ve Street Racer stops the Bass Boat Dope Smugglers. Keg Party Lit. Yar. Carry on, Mira. I see you may have some willing fodder stepping up to the plate....

Steve, could you explain your sigline, please? Is there are new TRUE GRIT movie coming out? I seem to remember that John Wayne and Tatum O'Neal were terrific in the original.

rose

Okay, I've finished sulking now--see, Mia, I'm much worse than you!-- and I am ready to join the conversation again. I hope you have time to hang out with us for a while, Nathan. Anytime you feel like starting a new thread and telling us what a Social Networking Guru does, I would like to read it. I...

Polymath,judging by your posts on the forum, no one could be any better at what you do than you are! I would give you anything to edit, in a New York heartbeat. I really prefer doing developmental editing work, so I see rough manuscripts by novice writers that you probably wouldn't take on. If an au...

Art, I am using footnotes and endnotes in the draft of the memoir that I am co-authoring. The latest version of Word makes it incredibly easy to do. Ultimately, if they get thrown out in the interest of making a book look more 'reader friendly,' I won't care, because I will always be able to go back...

Also, I have found that the Publishers' Marketplace data base yields all sorts of interesting information: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/search.html

rose

I've always had the impression that while agents will represent Poets who have established themselves, the field of poetry isn't lucrative enough to justify an agent's time otherwise. I would love to hear that I'm wrong about that.

rose

Title: THE GOOD-BYE MAN Genre: Memoir In myth, epic literature, and sacred traditions, the call to journey comes to the hero at an important turning point in life. When the hero answers the call, huge changes are set in motion—changes that will benefit not only the hero, but many others and, in some...

Nice, intriguing opening. I too, liked almost everything about it and would read further. Congratulations and good luck.

rose

With much gratitude to those who have helped me get this far, and in appreciation of any comments or thoughts anyone might want to add at this point. Dear Agent Numero Uno When Linda Brown begins to research the life of her fabled physicist father, an old sweetheart of hers returns from the beyond ...

Also, non-fiction how-to's proposals can be sold almost single handedly on the size of the author's platform. Celebrity author's don't have to work nearly as hard. Or in lieu of a huge audience, publishers might be swayed by an author's unique qualifications for writing the book he/she is writing. B...