[stylist] Hi, I'm new!

[Toni]

Hi all,

I just joined this list yesterday. I was invited by Robert Newman. I
recently had a book published through http://www.lulu.com/ It is all about
using Microsoft Word 2007 with JAWS 10. 

 

Lulu.com will publish an ebook for someone for free and will market it for
you. They take a percentage of every sale. I ask $25 for my book. Lulu takes
$5 and I get $20. You can get your payments through PayPal. If you do, you
will get your checks quicker. I get my checks directly from Lulu and they
come quarterly. I like it that way as the checks are bigger. I may at some
point change my mind about that, but for now, this works. The only problem
about doing it the way I did is I cannot get an ISBN number. I didn't see a
point in getting a print copy of the book if its readers cannot read print.
There is still a copyright on it though. If you go through Lulu, your book
is considered to be self published. I had contacted AFB Press, but was
turned down for publication. At least this way I can get my name out there
so that books I choose to write and try to get published, I can say I have
had some published. Publishers want to know if you have had other stuff
published before many of them will consider your work. 

 

What happens if I spin ideas off of this list? Has anyone ever taken someone
else's ideas and claimed them for their own? I am working on a book right
now, but am at a standstill because I need to do more research on my topic.
It is sort of fiction, but could really happen. The characters in it are
fictional. 

 

I am currently not employed, not for lack of trying. I am a volunteer though
at the Division of Services for the Blind here in the state I live in. I am
also taking computer classes. 

 

I have had some poetry published on http://www.poetry.com/ It has been a few
years, so I don't even know if you can search for my poetry anymore. I can
say though that I have had some published. I don't do that anymore as they
charged me to publish my poems in their anthologies. I "won" a Poet of Merit
Award back in 2001, but they charged me also for my "silver" bowl. 

 

I just wanted to introduce myself. 

 

Toni R. Fraser

 

Want to learn Microsoft Word 2007 with JAWS? Check out my new ebook at: 

 <http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=4554432>
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=4554432