The Writer's Life 3/29 - Maneuvers

As someone who uses Twitter for shameless self-promotion, I appreciate those who who use it creatively. The NY Post has column today highlighting the Tweets of comedians. I didn't understand some of them. Maybe they have to with pop culture of which I'm unaware. There were two that made me laugh. I have no idea who either of these men are:
Mike Lawrence: "Paying off my students loans with a job I didn't need college for. The American Dream."
Trevor Noah: "Looking at how successful all the Kardashian women are, I don't blame Bruce Jenner at all."


I mailed out the Book Cancellation Form to AuthorHouse this morning. Close to the Edge, in its present form, will be available for another month or so, and probably offered in used copies on Amazon. I'm in the process of uploading it, minus a ton of spelling errors, to Kindle. I hope AH lets me use the cover its staff created, and the ISBN number that was assigned to the book. I'm not sure about the former, but I don't see why they would object to the latter. They made a nice profit off me, so I have no compunction about those aspects. And there were three incidents where I bought six books with Amazon gift certificates and was not paid royalties for them. I complained the first time, and was compensated. I didn't bother to address their pettiness the next two. If all goes well, I will soon make a print edition available through Create Space, where there is no printing or set up fee. I wouldn't expect any web sales, but I'd be able to buy copies in bulk for street sale and be able to turn a profit on them. I'm down about a grand on Edge. It would have been half that had I known what I know now about the process. It served as a good learning experience. A Hitch in Twilight and Killing are profitable. If I sell most of the copies I have of Exchanges and Rising Star, they too will be in the black. The best I can hope for Adjustments is to break even. The Kindle version of Edge will be a buck.


My thanks to the kind folks who bought books today on Bay Parkway, and to the gentleman who donated four technical works and three classics, each genre of which I'd been lacking.

Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh

Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3

Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/pdxwsnt

Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp

Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f

Vic's Blog: http://vicfortezza.blogspot.com/

Vic's Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/