MICHAEL WALSH smiles as he reads of a Pennsylvania having similar problems to his own except the dairy farmer’s stock in trade is milk rather than Michael’s books.
The regime’s authorities in the Netherlands have revised the anti-coronavirus rules, which were tightened at the end of December due to the spread of a new strain of coronavirus ‘omicron’.
When your business is burgled your preparedness to adapt is essential to survival. We faced destitution when Amazon seized the entire contents of our small publisher’s store. The booksellers continued to sell my commandeered books through agents so added salt to the wounds.
For the first time in history, book readers are publishers too: Less than 20 years ago we bought newspapers. It never crossed our minds that newspapers could be free. Does anyone buy a newspaper these days?
When an author historian suffers years of ambushes set by Amazon it makes publishing books a challenge. When Amazon’s coup de grâce is to close the author’s account one imagines smugness on the spotty faces of cancel-culture vultures lurking in Silicon Valley as they remove his life support apparatus.
Few writers are under any illusions as to their chances of their book becoming a blockbuster. Amazon pays from 10 cents to $3 per book sale. Amazon doesn’t promote books; you do.
Everyone has a book inside them and sadly this is where it usually stays. But as Richard Bach says, ‘a professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.’
We are all familiar with Wrigley’s Chewing Gum but the story behind the Wrigley legend is well worth chewing over. I don’t have to hand the original so I fall back on memory.
When during a televised skirmish President Reagan’s recently published memoirs came up, former president wryly remarked: ‘I hear it’s a terrific book. One of these days I am going to read it myself.’
If you are in business there are going to be occasions when you have to address an audience. When you are watching someone else speaking at an event it comes across as easy. In truth standing up in front of an audience and setting one’s stall out can be the most unnerving experience.
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