Do u really have to ask? I'm sure all the titles have the words alpha and billionaire and BBW in them. Apparently that's the new Twilight for adults.

I like to think that I provide value to the threads on Writer's Cafe. Clearly I am mistaken. All of my success is based on the fact that my catalog has alpha billionaires and BBW heroines. Thanks for pointing this out, Jj2011. I'm off to have Harvey close my account. I can read kboards all I want without the account, and clearly have no value to add otherwise.

Pages has Track Changes. I use it instead of Word now. I can review changes on my iPad, my iPhone, or my MB Pro.

Will it import a docx with track changes? I'm just wondering in that I imagine few editors run two systems, most of them probably run Word on a PC?

Interestingly - the small presses I've worked with prohibited use of track changes. Editors had to use strikethrough (for deletions) and blue text for additions because, with MS Word, at least, track changes can bite you (hard) in the bum upon conversion to the ebook formats. I've learned that internal document tracking performed by the software can bite you in the bum without ever engaging track changes, which is why I had gone to hand coding the html prior to getting my mac and writing in Pages.

You should be pointed to as an example for those who swear that that there is no way that a person could write a novel on a phone.

Japan has long (in ecommerce terms) had an entire literary platform for phone composed works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel

Thank you MT - just did a follow, will see if Amazon notifies me when it releases (and will stay on the lookout for it, too). Added some CR to my read list while I was on Zon.

Odd since I see and read plenty of PNR newly published by trade publishers. Its a pretty big subgenre of romance.

Yeah - six figure months (or close to it) for some of the indie PNR writers I know. (Salivates because my PNR sales are on the weak side.)

That one earned its donation.

Yep, I chipped some in to encourage her to continue. About a decade ago, I signed a contract and didn't realize how inclusive "subsidiary rights" are (the publisher got 50% of amounts received in exploiting subsidiary rights). I felt that the book had good potential for clothing or cosmetics and had that in mind to exploit at some future date if it proved popular (ah, the optimism of early contracts). Then I realized about a year afterwards that I'd signed away half of those rights! 

ETA - thankfully all of my contracts had 3 or 7 year end dates except for a few life of (c), but those ones had "out of print" clauses when royalties fell below a certain amount and I was quick to reclaim them all when they did.

This is my question from august 2013 to ACX support and their answer on this topic

ME:

Hello

I have an Amazon KDP account and publish several of my pen names on the account. I am interested in requesting auditions for audiobook versions on the acx site. However, I am concerned what name shows in the request/contact field.

My KDP account is under [REDACTED] -- this is used to log in to acx. There is no way to set a profile that I can see on acx.com. There is "personal information" -- but I'm assuming I'm not allowed to change that from my real life information, particularly as the information is feeding from my kdp log in and is used for payments and tax reporting.

When I am on the amazon.com site posting, my user name shows as X, when I am on the kdp community forums, it shows as one of my pen names (not the pen name I intend to request auditions for on acx). I don't want my real name or my other pen name to show on the audition requests.

Please clarify what shows as the user name on such requests.


THEM

Thank you for contacting ACX.

In a situation like yours there are a few ways that you can go about this. If you'd like, you can change your personal information to list your pen name instead of your private name. ACX does not have anything against this, you just want to make sure that your tax information is correct so our finance team will be able to process your payments.

If you are going to be writing under multiple names, the best bet is making a different account for each pen name. When doing this, you need to make sure the tax information is correct, and that you create each new account with a different email address.

In order to create your new accounts (if needed), please log out of your current ACX account and then visit www.acx.com. From there, you can select “Join” in the upper left hand side of the page, to create a new profile using an alternate e-mail address.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions. You can call us directly at 1-888-396-6347.

Have a great day!

Sincerely,
Frank O.

audible.com

I had to replace a base (pre-bonus) salary of over 170k a year (about 14.5k a month), but I didn't need to make all that (although I didn't really want to make less). So I looked at expenses (including my son's tuition at a crazily expensive school), and 10k a month profit was my minimum. (At the end of 2015, that minimum number will go down to 5k and I can then afford to spend some time experimenting with other genres.) Before I turned in my notice, I had a rule that I had to have 6 full months of earning that minimum (in pre-tax profits) on writing income alone, plus 3 months in savings.

This whole "you must have a year's expenses saved before quitting" that is often thrown around (haven't read the replies so I don't know if it's already been thrown around here) is, in my opinion, mostly manure that employers pay career advisers to spread around to keep employees from quitting.

Haven't read any of the replies - I'm going to come back and read them.

While part of this axiom may be true - you have to correctly identify the product. So, I release a new title, there are some people who have no knowledge of me. The product is both me and the book, but mostly the book. But for another group of readers, I am the product, not the book. They only need to see that I have a new release out and it is one-click or at least immediately wish listed until payday.

Anecdotally, for my purchasing habits, if I haven't bought a purchase by the third time I've seen it, I'm never going to buy it. There are only a few exceptions in my buying history, but those were very high ticket items I wanted within the first three times I saw them but had to reconcile my lust for the object with its price tag and my anemic bank account.

Thank you for the link, Myra. I'd lost track of the Fiction University website. Naughty me.

And thank you for starting the thread, Griffin. I like the more simplified perspective of the cause/effect review of one's plot.

I"m racking my brain and coming up empty.  What is A F as a kink?  Please pm me if you can't say it openly.  Thanks!

AF isn't a kink. F is right next to R on the keyboard. I believe she was abbreviating Anne Rice's name. Writing as (I believe) AN Roquelaire, the Beauty series is extreme BDSM and nonconsensual. I love some of AR's work, but Beauty was my first and biggest wall banger as a reader.

If you want to see what I do, the easy thing would be to sign up ...

No affront intended, but I signed up after reading your OP earlier for exactly that reason. I'm signed up to several high-selling authors in my genre to see what they do and not as a reader.

I am almost all in on KU now, including my in progress serial that I haven't run any sales on. I'll probably do 5 free days on installment #1, probably launching December 21 or 22.