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Call For Artists!
Are you a fledgling e-artist who wants to show off his/her work and earn a few bux? If so, then BD00 wants to partner with you in a book project. Like Elton John and Bernie Taupin did with music and lyrics, we can do with graphics and words.
The majority of posts on this site fall into the “management” category. Thus, I’m gonna try to write a self-published e-book that showcases my utter lack of understanding and unparalleled ignorance of the subject. The biggest hurdle I have to overcome is the fear of being sued by Microsoft, and perhaps others, from the commercial use of their graphics. Thus, I need someone to draw up legit replacements for the icons I plan to use in my so-called work; and to be on standby for others that I might need during the effort.
Here’s a categorized collage of images that I need to be redrawn:
If you’re interested, please give me a shout out in the comments section so that we can get the business negotiation process started.
I’ll Skip This One
“The Back Of The Napkin” author Dan Roam is hatching a new book titled “Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work”.
Being a graphics-oriented dude myself, I loved reading TBOTN. However, since I’m spoiled from buying Kindle books for $9.99, I’m gonna skip purchasing this one because I refuse to pay the $14.99 price that the publisher wants for the e-version. It makes BD00 wonder what the publisher-publishee split is from the sale of each unit.
I love the fact that self-publishing is on the rise and that sites like lulu.com are eating into dinosaur publishing house profits. The big pub house strategic plan may be to phase out the costly-to-produce physical versions of their books while jacking up the price for the non-touchable e-versions. For now at least, I’m not hoppin’ on that train.
The Urge To Surge
Man is a wanting animal – Peter Ralston
With over 700 published posts behind me, it was inevitable that my “false self” would start thinking about the possibility of publishing a book that would rocket to the top of the NY Times best seller list and bring me the fame, fortune, and care-free life that I deserve. Whoo hoo!
Because of this emerging, ego-centric, urge to surge, I recently registered with the Amazon.com “Kindle Direct Publishing” web site. However, I haven’t belly-flopped into the murky “how to” details that are thoughtfully explained at the site because every time I think about doing it, I have visions of spending an ungodly amount of time organizing, writing, editing, and prepping the book’s content. The real, deal-breaking excuse in my mind is how to freakin’ incorporate all the dorky graphics that I’ve generated into the Kindle form factor. If the book was gonna be purely text-based, maybe my anxiety and fear levels wouldn’t be so high. But then again, maybe they would.
Why am I here?
WTF?
Meh!
D'oh!
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