Mistakes I have made.

I have been very neglectful lately where this blog is concerned and that is not the only mistake that I have made since my adventure into publishing began back in 2010. The story I want to tell you today is that of my biggest mistake to date and to give others a heads up so that they can avoid the same pit fall.

In 2009 and 2010 I spent a lot of time and money sending my manuscript for my first book, The Deep Black Pond, to many publishers and agents all over the country and in Europe. I received many rejection letters before it was finally accepted, then a few weeks later another publisher wanting to publish that same book contacted me. I told them that I had already signed a contract with someone else but I had just finished and new manuscript for my second book, The Gray Garden, and I asked if they would like first refusal on it. They accepted and to my complete surprise they wanted to publish it. I could not believe my luck! That was where the good feeling ended. That Publisher was Publish America.

Even up until the book was released there were problems and after The Gray Garden came out the problems seemed to grow. The biggest being that no one seemed to be able to buy my book. I was, many times, contacted by people wanting to get a copy and could not. The on line channels did not seem to work. And even when I knew for sure that some copies had been ordered Publish America (now called America Star Books) reported that they had not had any orders. For anyone who has had a problem getting my work I am truly sorry and if you would like to contact my directly I will try to make it right. I have tried for a long time to make the best of it and have tried to convince myself that I did not know enough about publishing and that maybe things like this just were normal issues. Well, four years later I do know better. I do not want to go on at this point; instead I am attaching an article so that you can draw your own conclusions.

http://timetowrite.blogs.com/weblog/2014/01/considering-publishing-with-star-america-beware.html

Good Luck and keep writing. (and Beware)

Morgan