You, too, can be a published author!
Nov. 17th, 2005 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumHey, check out this email I got today:
Dear Author,
My name is Tracey Rosengrave, Marketing Manager for Xlibris Corporation, a Print-On-Demand Self-Publishing company. We are sending you this email because we have either learned about your passion From whom, exactly? for writing or we have had the pleasure of coming across some of your work.Way to specify there. If you are interested in self-publishing, I’ve included a brief description of who we are below.
I do send out follow up messages, so if you are not interested in our company or services please click here and I will send no further correspondence. I completely understand how annoying unwanted email messages can be; if this is the case here, my sincerest apologies.
For those who would like more information…
Xlibris is partially owned by Random House Ventures, the world’s largest trade book publisher. We have published over 14,000 titles and paid out over $1.6 million in royalties. Everyday we help authors by offering flexible, inexpensive methods of publishing, editing, marketing, distributing and selling books both in trade and full color. I understand that each author has different requirements. And that is why we offer packages that are tailored to your individual needs. At Xlibris we believe in author control.
If you would like to find out more about us, visit our website www.xlibris.com or email us at info@xlibris.com. Or better yet call us at 1-888-795-4274 -- we are open 24/7. Be sure to ask your publishing consultant for a free publishing kit and book sample when you call. You can also order a publishing kit online by clicking here.
I thank you very much for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
And by inexpensive, they mean something like $500 for the basic package. I didn't delve too deeply.
I still can't decide if this self-publishing is the next wave or just sort of cheating. The more I think of it the more tempted I am*, but I still hold out hope that some day an actual publishing company will like what I send them. I know a few people on my flist have self-published, and I have a college friend who did but...I dunno.
I am dead curious as to how they got my email, though. I wonder if they just trolled ffiction.net or something.
*of course the fact that I can't afford it helps temper the temptation quite a bit
Dear Author,
My name is Tracey Rosengrave, Marketing Manager for Xlibris Corporation, a Print-On-Demand Self-Publishing company. We are sending you this email because we have either learned about your passion From whom, exactly? for writing or we have had the pleasure of coming across some of your work.Way to specify there. If you are interested in self-publishing, I’ve included a brief description of who we are below.
I do send out follow up messages, so if you are not interested in our company or services please click here and I will send no further correspondence. I completely understand how annoying unwanted email messages can be; if this is the case here, my sincerest apologies.
For those who would like more information…
Xlibris is partially owned by Random House Ventures, the world’s largest trade book publisher. We have published over 14,000 titles and paid out over $1.6 million in royalties. Everyday we help authors by offering flexible, inexpensive methods of publishing, editing, marketing, distributing and selling books both in trade and full color. I understand that each author has different requirements. And that is why we offer packages that are tailored to your individual needs. At Xlibris we believe in author control.
If you would like to find out more about us, visit our website www.xlibris.com or email us at info@xlibris.com. Or better yet call us at 1-888-795-4274 -- we are open 24/7. Be sure to ask your publishing consultant for a free publishing kit and book sample when you call. You can also order a publishing kit online by clicking here.
I thank you very much for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
And by inexpensive, they mean something like $500 for the basic package. I didn't delve too deeply.
I still can't decide if this self-publishing is the next wave or just sort of cheating. The more I think of it the more tempted I am*, but I still hold out hope that some day an actual publishing company will like what I send them. I know a few people on my flist have self-published, and I have a college friend who did but...I dunno.
I am dead curious as to how they got my email, though. I wonder if they just trolled ffiction.net or something.
*of course the fact that I can't afford it helps temper the temptation quite a bit