http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog a cautionary tale of self-publishing Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, so the last one was just made in the 90s. And so dozens of movies, plays and the current books have borrowed the theme liberally. But I think it's time for another Three Musketeers remake. There are plenty of young actors right now who would make The Three Musketeers ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/19/so-three-musketeers/ From Bolingbroke, Richard II KING: Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes I see thy grieved heart. Thy sad aspect Hath from the number of his banished years plucked four away. Six frozen winters spent, return with welcome home from banishment. BOLINGBROKE: How long a time lies in one little word! ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/18/great-lines-from-shakespeare-one-little-word/ Everyone wants a piece of Sarah Palin. And she wasn't even on the winning ticket! In the past week or so, she was offered $2 million for an exclusive in an adult film. Then it was rumored that she was offered a part on Desperate Housewives. And today the word ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/17/sarah-palin-gets-a-book-deal/ Hard to believe my book has been in self-published limbo hell for over three years now, but that's the way it is. On a positive note though, I am still making the occasional sale to the occasional new person who comes across me. Here is what I've learned from this. ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/13/how-to-sell-books-three-years-later/ That's right. Read it in high school. Didn't love it. Tried to read it again recently. Still didn't love it. In fact, not only do I not love this novel. In high school, I never got through it. I copied a friend's homework when we had to fill out the reading sheets ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/13/hemingways-the-old-man-and-the-sea/ Most people know that 2003's Eragon was not Christopher Paolini's only novel. It ended with a cliffhanger, or at least it was intended as a cliffhanger for those people who were able to get into the book in the first place. The sequel to Eragon, Eldest, was released in 2005, ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/12/will-there-be-a-movie-sequel-to-eragon/ When you are ready to do your website for your book or your publishing company you will have a lot of decisions. You will wonder if you need a blog. The answer is yes. Most sites do have blogs these days. And then you will wonder how to go about ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/08/to-wordpress-or-not/ Wow, this is some sad news. Author Michael Crichton apparently passed away. He was age 66. And he died of cancer. And that is odd cause I had no idea. I mean, you would think you would have heard that. I mean he IS the Jurassic Park author. You can ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/05/michael-crichton-dead-at-age-66/ If you have started your publishing company, you will have to find distribution. Now you can sign up with a distribution company. That is if you can find a distributor that will take you. And they will take part of your profit. Or you can deal with that headache your ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/04/baker-taylor-always-slow-to-pay/ You know, while you are trying to think of places other than book stores to sell books there is something you want to consider. You want to try to use the internet to sell books. And not just in the traditional sense. Take all of the people that start blogs ... http://www.dismantlemybed.com/blog/2008/11/02/using-the-internet-to-sell-books/