The Whiskey Creek Press Toodle-Oo & EPIC Too
December 16, 2007
Anyone been reading Piers Anthony’s site recently?
There is a simple concept I have heard repeated numerous times when nameless publishers try to explain why THE WRITER has to pay for publishing or publishing services in order for the publisher in question to be able to do what any other respected publisher does every day of every week of every month of every year without writers paying a damn thing.
Yog’s Law
Money flows toward the writer
This is a simple yet highly useful concept and there are no exceptions, no schemes around the rule period, end of discussion. Any exceptions to this rule (ANY FEES! F. E. E. S.) automatically makes that publisher in question a VANITY PRESS.
Now saying that, you are more than welcome to go to a VANITY PRESS but I for one think you are slacking and not having to work at the same job done by any professional writer who has to sell their TALENT to an actual publisher who in turn doing typical publisher business will be willing to put the time and effort and money into publishing that work. Without the writer paying one red cent because a real publisher does things like that. Capiche?
Do I think an eBook published by a VANITY PRESS is of less quality than say a normal publisher? It does not have to be but for the most part it’s Kmart in the bad part of town. But, as a reader and a reviewer I feel that the parties involved are not there to really do their best work. They are there to work the system so to speak. The writer did not have to sell their work they simply provided the necessary cash to finance the publisher to provide the books. They are buying their way in the door, which requires no TALENT.
So based on Yog’s Law Whiskey Creek Press is a VANITY PRESS. Not a sorta “hybrid” VANITY PRESS anymore than someone can be sorta pregnant. They sell printing to their authors to be sold on Amazon. Will I review or promote an author buying their way into the business through a publisher for pay? Nah, I have other things to do with my time than support yet another internet get rich quick scheme destined to fail. Someone whispered LuLu to me. OK, I have bought from LuLu but I liked the author who had actual published work I followed.
So just go on with your excuses Risky Creek Press and your printer’s FEE and whatever else you are hoodwinking people into paying for, or it sounds from Piers site more like you are NOT paying them for. Any publisher that cared would bend over backwards to never ever cross the line and become a VANITY PRESS.
I will not support this crap anymore than I would even think to join EPIC that promotes it. Someone has to be controversial and draw a line well let me start one here.
I say, Stop The Madness! No Games, No Kissing Your Scamtastic Ass, No Reviews, No Awards, No Mixing VANITY PRESS in with real ePublishers like Samhain or Loose-Id. The game is over and I really am tired of the bankruptcies and the continual harm allowed to be done to writers in the name of mindlessly supporting some undefined hobbyist/get rich quick concept like Electronic Publishing with no standards. No Excuses and No EPIC.
We need a REAL Professional Internet Publishing Organization (More SFWA and less RWA) concerned about the utter lack of publishing standards and the good people being harmed that I would gladly pay dues to in order to support the rights of my professional writer/editor/cover artist friends. Not an Awards Ceremony/VANITY PRESS promotional tool.
Stay away from Vanity Publishing and Whiskey Creek Press and EPIC.
Money flows toward the writer You have been warned.
Tags: EPIC, Vanity Publishing, Whiskey Creek PressTGTBTU: The 12 eBooks of Christmas
December 15, 2007
In case you missed it I did a little list for The Good, The Bad, The Unread that I felt summed up my year of reading. Just some plain solid eBooks to enjoy.
After reading the finalist for the 2008 EPPIEs and the eBooks they had to select from… My list is better, maybe not complete, but then I actually bought them, read them, and enjoyed them and I am not out to set you up with some off the wall pretentious reading selection *cough plagiarism cough* or to select other eBooks that seem destined to fail when compared to my PRE-selected winner others on my list. Oh mymymy!
EPPIE Awards 2009 ~ Here I Come!
December 14, 2007
Deer EPICK,
I am appaling for jugging in da 2009 EPPY Awords. I feel u will find my entry to be undisputedly the bestest M/M in romantika. I have always supported EPICK and I spent many days with Triskelion till there unfortunate demize. Then I went to Twilight Fantasies and then Mardi Gras Publishing and then Lady Abell and then LameDia. I just want to says that what was said about them great pubes was lyes all lyes and ur amazing pair of legel advice and help with finding legitimate pubes is why I wright today. Mrs Kristi told me not to woory it is the faulting of jeallous ppl swayed by Samhane Publishing’s evil propopoganhda and unchristian lesbian satanisssts like Piers Antoony not to buy there books that cassed them pubes to fall.
This is my premiering qiuality book with Trixy Lion Publishing called Mandingo: Double Dong of Death and please never mind the names Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre you will see they is Mrs Kristi’s editurs. Thanks U and hope to sees u in the finals 4 the BLT catagory 2009!
W.F. Nolan
Tags: EPIC
