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April 8th, 2008
01:04 pm - I <3 My Dermatologist! / Publishing Woes
I already like my new dermatologist a lot more than Fake Doctor Kevin. She actually looked at my face, which automatically gives her an edge over FDK. Then she looked at my scalp, which I thought was weird, until she explained that she thinks the oil from my hair is causing my acne. Eureka! She's a genius! My acne started getting really bad when my hair started getting really long. I didn't have a problem all through high school because my hair was always short. Just before my wedding, I let my hair grow, and boom, acne explosion. The longer my hair gets, the worse my acne gets. Why didn't I think of this before? I was close when I thought it might be my hair products. Turns out it's just my hair. So Dr. McComb gave me a prescription shampoo I have to use twice a week, in addition to three other prescriptions. Plus, I'm supposed to keep using one of the prescriptions FDK gave me, for a total of five. FIVE prescriptions. It's like I have Cancer or something. I really think she's on to something, though. This time it's gonna work.
I have a few more people interested in my book of short stories, and I've been looking around at different self publishing sites. Wordclay seems to be the best so far, but they do this annoying thing where they keep claiming that publishing a book with them is free. It's obviously not free. What they mean is, it's free to upload your information and create the book. No duh. That's free with Discmakers too. It doesn't cost money until you actually buy copies of your book. Only they don't tell you how much that will cost, because it depends on the book. *sigh* I guess I'll have to put the whole damn thing together first before I can get a quote.
This project seems like such a massive undertaking, and I've thought about giving it up several times, but at the moment I'm still going through with it, mostly because I've already told three other writers that I am. I don't want to screw around with writers. I just have to keep reminding myself that it's a good idea. If I was publishing a book by myself, it would only be like 65 pages, and I'd have to pay for the whole thing myself and do all of the promoting myself. The idea of bringing other people in is to share the work load.
The thing I'm worried about is, what if someone sends me a story that I think needs some work? I don't want to piss anybody off, and I'm not an editor, but I feel like this project is my baby. I'm thinking maybe we should pay for Wordclay's professional editing services, but then they'd be editing my stuff too, and that would piss me off. The one time a seemingly more qualified individual tried to edit one of my stories.. well I quit that correspondence course. I didn't agree with anything she said. I guess I'm going to have to compromise.
Current Location: The House of the Dead
Current Music: Ivy
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