After retrieving the Sentra from Sam's this afternoon, I noticed that it's still making those annoying wub-wub-wub noises that indicate a tire with uneven wear. Of course, the sound is in a different place now, because that tire has been rotated to a different position. We've had these tires for almost two years and probably 40,000 miles or so – what's the usual wear on tires? I fear my neglect of rotation and balance, mostly due to the impossibility of receiving decent service at Sam's, may have doomed our tires to an early obsolescence. Next time we may buy our slabs of rubber from a smaller merchant closer to home, even if it means an extra $5 per tire.
Yesterday while trying on shoes at the mall, I got a call on the cell from Morris, our publisher in Nebraska. Not only did they receive our package on Tuesday as promised, but they had already opened it, gone through the cover art on disk, and called to iron out a problem. Their art department said that the cover looked fine (whew, I was worried about that part), but about those red highlights . . . . They wanted to replace the red color I specified with their own house red, which would save us $85. They described it as their "Nebraska Huskers" red. I describe it as my "saved me eighty-five bucks" red.
The call got me excited about the book again. I had been depressed about shipping it off, in what I've been calling "a post-partum sort of way." Just to think that the ball was still rolling, that printed copies could be rolling off presses any day now put some zing back into my day. Got to get the adrenaline flowing for the marketing push.
I've been in internet research mode for the last couple of days, looking for a real-world distributor for Reel Shame, but I've decided to table it in favor of concentrating on the Internet sales. The book is a creature born of the Internet, and if we can sell about 800 copies (I figure on giving away about 200 of them just for promotional purposes) in a year on the web alone (Amazon included), that will be a sign to us that the book is a worthy project. If not, we fire-sale the remaining books and move on to the next one. A failure to sell the 300 copies we need to break even is not a possibility I can discuss at this point. It's unthinkable. Reel Shame is a good book. I just need to get people who are respected in the field to say so.
Yesterday while trying on shoes at the mall, I got a call on the cell from Morris, our publisher in Nebraska. Not only did they receive our package on Tuesday as promised, but they had already opened it, gone through the cover art on disk, and called to iron out a problem. Their art department said that the cover looked fine (whew, I was worried about that part), but about those red highlights . . . . They wanted to replace the red color I specified with their own house red, which would save us $85. They described it as their "Nebraska Huskers" red. I describe it as my "saved me eighty-five bucks" red.
The call got me excited about the book again. I had been depressed about shipping it off, in what I've been calling "a post-partum sort of way." Just to think that the ball was still rolling, that printed copies could be rolling off presses any day now put some zing back into my day. Got to get the adrenaline flowing for the marketing push.
I've been in internet research mode for the last couple of days, looking for a real-world distributor for Reel Shame, but I've decided to table it in favor of concentrating on the Internet sales. The book is a creature born of the Internet, and if we can sell about 800 copies (I figure on giving away about 200 of them just for promotional purposes) in a year on the web alone (Amazon included), that will be a sign to us that the book is a worthy project. If not, we fire-sale the remaining books and move on to the next one. A failure to sell the 300 copies we need to break even is not a possibility I can discuss at this point. It's unthinkable. Reel Shame is a good book. I just need to get people who are respected in the field to say so.
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