Comments for Kay Green

Comment on Do Writers Need Agents? by admin

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:17:31 +0000

Spoke too soon! Sorry all - the club forum seems to be coming and going this week.

Comment on Do Writers Need Agents? by admin

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:14:30 +0000

Hi John, and well done - you left a message on the only bit of the web I could still access. Well, the forum at Earlyworks Press is back in action now and, in case anyone else is wondering, our host server ran into difficulties over the weekend (15th and 16th Feb) and we lost forum, website, webmail the lot - but all seems to be well now.

Comment on Do Writers Need Agents? by john benn

john benn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:35:19 +0000

What’s happened with the forum. We’re left outside in the rain trying to get in. Sincerely yours, John Benn

Comment on Do Writers Need Agents? by admin

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:42:37 +0000

I’ve passed your message on to the Earlyworks Press Writers and Reviewers Club, Raul. If anyone would like to work with you, I expect they’ll contact you in the New Year.

Comment on Do Writers Need Agents? by raul lilloy

raul lilloy — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:42:52 +0000

I am spanish writer, novel and short stories, and I am looking for spanish translator of my short stories to English, but I offer interchange translation: You tanslate 5 pages spanish to englisn and viceversa I translate the same, english to spanish.
I live in cuevas del almanzora, almeria, spain, and in this way, you could participate in literary spanish prizes (there are more than 1000 yearly prizes,much more than english prizes).
Kind regard
Raul

Comment on Is The Arts Council Funding A Vanity Publisher? by admin

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:54:44 +0000

Thanks Paul - that’s an improvement. If they’d just supply author copies, or at least give authors a decent discount on copies, I’d start liking the scheme. I’ll be really interested to hear whether they’re succeeding in selling the books to anyone other than the authors, though.

Comment on Is The Arts Council Funding A Vanity Publisher? by Paul

Paul — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:36:29 +0000

“To sum up…. YouWriteOn will get 40% of the profit on 30,000 books just from sales to the authors.”

In fact 10% goes to the charity SightSavers and 30% goes to YWO.

Comment on Good Mother Gosse by admin

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:02:11 +0000

Feel free, and thank you! The more the merrier, says I.

Comment on Good Mother Gosse by Christopher James Heyworth

Christopher James Heyworth — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:52:17 +0000

Hello, Kay.

I have found your blog only this afternoon whilst trawling for “stuff” that I would encourage people to find and read.

As with Earlyworks Press, is it of any use to you if I promote the blog (as I do various other poetry publishers and small presses/booksellers) on my Facebook pages?

If you do not want new readers, just say so, and I shall not mention you.

Comment on Is The Arts Council Funding A Vanity Publisher? by admin

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:51:03 +0000

You do seem to have thought this through pretty well, Judi. You say you are still working on the ms, which suggests you aren’t going to risk publishing something that doesn’t do you credit by its quality, and you say you have tried other likely sources of publication and judged that its time is up as a commercial proposition. - How did we get into a world where a novel has such a short ’shelf life’ - but that’s another debate. You are right, it is so.

That being the case, you have looked at the cost of independent self-publishing and decided you aren’t ready to invest that much so yes, in your case, I’d say there isn’t much to lose - you are testing the system on a work that otherwise probably wouldn’t see the light of day. I only have one remaining quibble then.

What a shame that YouWriteOn didn’t see fit to allow for some free author-copies! If, as you say, you have a bit of experience in marketing books, having a boxful of your own for exhibitions and readings could just do the job, and lift the book into what you describe as a ‘mid-list title’. As such, it could enhance your reputation and pay you a small but encouraging sum. Well, maybe you’ll manage that anyway. I wish you the best of luck. It looks as though you have the experience and the vision which tend to create luck.