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Ron63
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If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com
I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books.
If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on.
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stjerome
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Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:10If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books. If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on. "Crooked Hat is an Independent Publisher of humerous and lighthearted fiction and non fiction." HUMEROUS??? Doesn't inspire one with confidence, does it? Tim
Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce (1842 -1913)
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Palache
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Quote: stjerome, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:16Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:10If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books. If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on. "Crooked Hat is an Independent Publisher of humerous and lighthearted fiction and non fiction." HUMEROUS??? Doesn't inspire one with confidence, does it? Tim He's checking your sense of humer.
my website
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stjerome
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Quote: Palache, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:23Quote: stjerome, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:16Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:10If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books. If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on. "Crooked Hat is an Independent Publisher of humerous and lighthearted fiction and non fiction." HUMEROUS??? Doesn't inspire one with confidence, does it? Tim He's checking your sense of humer. Perhaps my humerus is my funny bone then?? Tim
Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce (1842 -1913)
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Ron63
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So sorry for trying to be helpful
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sod
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Hi Ron. Thanks for trying to give everyone the heads up. I've just had a look, and on their home page, I found this - If you have you written something you would like to see published? If so, we would like to hear from you. This alone puts me off. If the publisher can't even string a sentence together, what's the point? Who knows? Maybe it would be worth contacting them, just to see what they are really about. Thanks anyway, Ron. Lisa.
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Ron63
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Thanks Sod. I have noticed a couple of other mistakes too, which I didn't notice on my first reading of the site. I usually skim read most sites then act - or not. Maybe I should I slow down a bit.
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Cinnamon
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Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 15:03Thanks Sod. I have noticed a couple of other mistakes too, which I didn't notice on my first reading of the site. I usually skim read most sites then act - or not. Maybe I should I slow down a bit. Be really careful, Ron. On top of what Sod says, the fact that the site gives no details about who runs the company or their publishing experience rings alarm bells. As for all the typos...
E-asy Peasy?
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dancingsue
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It sounds like someone who will be willing to take a cut from a self-publishing house in return for business. I've heard these 'agencies' are springing up left, right and centre. Preying on desperation.
the long and the short of it
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erict
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Something that is one word away from "crooked publishing" is a scam???? No! yah think... I'd better ask my solicitor "Robin M. Blynde"
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