fbpx
Palmerston North, New Zealand
+64273199017
plaistedpublishinghouse@gmail.com

Month: January 2021

The 100 Best Websites for Writers in 2021 – by Farrah Daniel…

A must-have list of websites. I’ve heard and used quite a few, though there are some I’ll be investigating over the next few months. Thanks for the details Chris and thanks to Farrah Daniel for writing the post.

Know Your Worth – A Conversation about Perceived Value, Posted on Facebook by Amanda Zito.

    KNOW YOUR WORTH   There are so many people who don’t understand what your job is.  I’ve had one client decided all I was doing was putting images in her book and therefore I cost to much…  Never had the nerve to ask me, never spoke to me again, never apologised.  Think about…
Read more

How to Format a Novel for Submission – by Carol Saller…

A must-read on basic formatting when you are submitting work to editors, agents, and publishers. This would make my job easier when I format a manuscript…

Indicted by the Goodreads Police

I think they should take more notice of fake accounts leaving fake one-star reviews…rather than this. If you enjoy reading another author who happens to have reviewed one of yours…then so be it. At this rate we will all be using pen names…

Audiblegate Row… Update

Thank you to Susan May for keeping us up to date with what is going on with Audible.  The next meeting with them is tomorrow. Good luck and here’s hoping something good comes out of this. https://www.susanmaywriter.net/single-post/we-re-not-gonna-take-it-audible-s-response-to-audiblegate

Word War is BACK – Affect/Effect

With Cac, the Proofreader WORD WAR is back. I will be doing these each Tuesday, and they will be much shorter than before…at least I will attempt that! Let’s go! Affect v. Effect. Affect is ??????? a verb. It means to impact or change. Transform. “How did that affect you?” Effect is ??????? a noun,…
Read more

Goodreads Ransom Scam by Alina Leonova

  Goodreads Ransom Scam And The Platform’s Astonishing Indifference January 13th, 2021   A number of authors are being attacked by scammers who first post multiple fake 1-star reviews and ratings on Goodreads and then demand ransom to take them down. If you are not a book geek, you might not be familiar with Goodreads.…
Read more

LULU eBook Update

      I received this email today and thought I’d share.  It seems we are going to have to pay for Global Distribution for each and every ebook we upload… If you wish GLOBAL… Dear Lulu Author, We’re contacting you today because you currently have Ebook projects using our Global Distribution service. Effective February 15th,…
Read more

Emails and Files

A short blog post about emails and files!! It seems many people either don’t realise, forget or just don’t think about files they’ve attached to emails and sent to contractors, publishers, editors etc., etc. Why do I say this? If you send a file to someone… anyone, then you should still have a copy of…
Read more

Showcasing Author Clients

It has always been my belief that hard work shouldn’t go to waste. I also believe that if something is not a good fit in one place, there’s always a place for it elsewhere. The following showcase was deemed incorrect for a magazine I submitted to, so I’m sharing it here with you. Greetings to…
Read more