Bemoaning of an Author
Isabel P. Ball
June 29, 2006
As a writer with a published book, I would appear to be one successful author reaping accolades and financial gain. Finishing a book, let alone publishing it, is an endeavor that many green-eyed, would be, but lackadaisical authors nail bitingly feel intrigued about. The accomplishment, to say the least, is daunting and prodigious, for which authors are recognized by an innumerable followings of happy and satisfied readers with a bow of the head for respect.
Exhilarating as the above scenario projects, but the grim reality is that I am not yet in that tier of success. That path has somehow been derailed with my inadvertent association with a claimed professional publicist, or more aptly, a pseudo marketing specialist. Multiple perhaps in number, they permanently scam authors without relent, myself included, and just about all other aspiring authors, to those yet to be born. The premise is an expansive claim because of a fact that greed and sleaze are part of our nature. To some it is controlled, while to others it is primal.
Scammers are breed of their own. What we see as being constant among our trusted friends and family members are behavior anathema to scammers. Friends and families, for instance, come for a visit when they say they are going to. The time set is exactly when they do appear. To our homes, they would come repeatedly, unlike only a first time or a second, if not more, in the case of a scammer.
Guileful, scammers, play on with ones emotion—flirting and flabbergasting. Then, ultimately, like a black widow, they inflict the fatal bite. Emotion and all in the bag, the scammers scurry away never to be seen or heard of again. Though in my case, I remain in touch, only by email now, with my so-named publicist, and still reneging on delivery of a purported promise to me, now nearing two years.
The pathway to a successful Authorship is one laden with perils, great expense, stiff competition, luck, and guile. It is for nothing that some authors engage in sleazy stories to make a name and fortune. One such recent book is titled “The Many Million Pieces” in which the falsity, varying in fiction and nonfiction, has bred the great publicity that has generated the author undisclosed amount of fortune. The author, a seeming variant, has manipulated the magnate Oprah Winfrey.
Still some authors, Dan Brown of the “Da Vinci Code,” a well-marketed book, according to many readers, is lackluster as a story, but held up the high rating in sales. The readers’ fascination in the nonfiction suspense and fantasy aspect of the story was made the focal marketing point by its savvy marketing team.
Turned a billionaire just from writing series of books, J.K. Rowling has turned her indigent past insignificant and glossed over. Her stories were written for children bordering into the adult readership, consequently, intense sales. Stories made into movies, the Harry Potter books are classic bound because of the vigorous sales it has performed.
In my case, I am the luckless, the unknown, and classically a starving artist, who has written a book unparalleled in story and magnitude. Banking though on luck to finally magnetize to me, I remain hopeful that people would discover about it, read and enjoy. In the meantime, my book will remain at the bottom rung in sales, while, I--as an author--will continue to languish in state of nonentity for an indefinite time because of scammers.
Commonly, along an author’s path are charlatans out to get their money after having issued a grand promise of fulfilling the aspirations and dreams of someone to become a famous author. In this field, publishing agents are of different modalities. The more reputable companies are generally members of the Association of the Agents Representatives. Generally, they take in only authors with established names, if not, a sterling writing reputation. These good breed professional agents charge no fees upfront, and take in certain percentage on sales only for compensation.
Less prudent agencies prey on the unsuspecting, desperate, or despondent writers to be. Commonly, these agencies, though barred by an industry's protocol from charging fees, successfully entice countless authors, nonetheless. It is a risk that most authors take in anticipation of being known, what with a pocketful of dinero to boot.
Some big time scammers were reported to have amassed collective millions in dollars fees from many authors. Unprecedented in the publishing industry, these scammers were busted, tried in New York, fined heavily, with possibility of jail time, to the glee of the many victims and of all authors.
Some publishers are no less prudent, and are also active participants in the commission of perjury among authors. For some specified amount of publishing fee, authors are lured, only to suffer from totality of none delivery, to delivering poor quality books, and none fulfillment of any entered on marketing services.
As I have once appealed to an intervening medium for assistance, the help that would be extended to me, hopefully, would straighten up my predicament. By itself, an assistance would translate to more time I would have to write to entertain, educate, enlighten the world of readers with my beautiful, astounding, timeless stories.
Exhilarating as the above scenario projects, but the grim reality is that I am not yet in that tier of success. That path has somehow been derailed with my inadvertent association with a claimed professional publicist, or more aptly, a pseudo marketing specialist. Multiple perhaps in number, they permanently scam authors without relent, myself included, and just about all other aspiring authors, to those yet to be born. The premise is an expansive claim because of a fact that greed and sleaze are part of our nature. To some it is controlled, while to others it is primal.
Scammers are breed of their own. What we see as being constant among our trusted friends and family members are behavior anathema to scammers. Friends and families, for instance, come for a visit when they say they are going to. The time set is exactly when they do appear. To our homes, they would come repeatedly, unlike only a first time or a second, if not more, in the case of a scammer.
Guileful, scammers, play on with ones emotion—flirting and flabbergasting. Then, ultimately, like a black widow, they inflict the fatal bite. Emotion and all in the bag, the scammers scurry away never to be seen or heard of again. Though in my case, I remain in touch, only by email now, with my so-named publicist, and still reneging on delivery of a purported promise to me, now nearing two years.
The pathway to a successful Authorship is one laden with perils, great expense, stiff competition, luck, and guile. It is for nothing that some authors engage in sleazy stories to make a name and fortune. One such recent book is titled “The Many Million Pieces” in which the falsity, varying in fiction and nonfiction, has bred the great publicity that has generated the author undisclosed amount of fortune. The author, a seeming variant, has manipulated the magnate Oprah Winfrey.
Still some authors, Dan Brown of the “Da Vinci Code,” a well-marketed book, according to many readers, is lackluster as a story, but held up the high rating in sales. The readers’ fascination in the nonfiction suspense and fantasy aspect of the story was made the focal marketing point by its savvy marketing team.
Turned a billionaire just from writing series of books, J.K. Rowling has turned her indigent past insignificant and glossed over. Her stories were written for children bordering into the adult readership, consequently, intense sales. Stories made into movies, the Harry Potter books are classic bound because of the vigorous sales it has performed.
In my case, I am the luckless, the unknown, and classically a starving artist, who has written a book unparalleled in story and magnitude. Banking though on luck to finally magnetize to me, I remain hopeful that people would discover about it, read and enjoy. In the meantime, my book will remain at the bottom rung in sales, while, I--as an author--will continue to languish in state of nonentity for an indefinite time because of scammers.
Commonly, along an author’s path are charlatans out to get their money after having issued a grand promise of fulfilling the aspirations and dreams of someone to become a famous author. In this field, publishing agents are of different modalities. The more reputable companies are generally members of the Association of the Agents Representatives. Generally, they take in only authors with established names, if not, a sterling writing reputation. These good breed professional agents charge no fees upfront, and take in certain percentage on sales only for compensation.
Less prudent agencies prey on the unsuspecting, desperate, or despondent writers to be. Commonly, these agencies, though barred by an industry's protocol from charging fees, successfully entice countless authors, nonetheless. It is a risk that most authors take in anticipation of being known, what with a pocketful of dinero to boot.
Some big time scammers were reported to have amassed collective millions in dollars fees from many authors. Unprecedented in the publishing industry, these scammers were busted, tried in New York, fined heavily, with possibility of jail time, to the glee of the many victims and of all authors.
Some publishers are no less prudent, and are also active participants in the commission of perjury among authors. For some specified amount of publishing fee, authors are lured, only to suffer from totality of none delivery, to delivering poor quality books, and none fulfillment of any entered on marketing services.
As I have once appealed to an intervening medium for assistance, the help that would be extended to me, hopefully, would straighten up my predicament. By itself, an assistance would translate to more time I would have to write to entertain, educate, enlighten the world of readers with my beautiful, astounding, timeless stories.
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