Hi Ele,
Well, given that Lisa asked about chess, I thought it would be inappropriate to talk about penguins.


Thanks, Grooves. Feel free to call on me the next time you have something you don't want published.

Dave

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In a fit of anger at recieving my 10th rejection for my 1st wallflower novel ,I picked a publisher solely on the fact that she had a similar email address as my sister AND I told her that after saying "it's all a crap shoot anyway- right?" . Needless to say I got a rejection.
This is a true story.

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Lauri, I may have been lucky that you didn't enter the contest.

Dave

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It's sad really that I sent that. I imagine some day that coming back and biting me in the bum. It just gets so frustrating sometimes with publishers and agents. Last week I got an email from an agent asking if I could send them a synopsis of one of my short stories. I mean do I really want an agent that can't trouble herself to read my 3000 word story? Actually the whole concept of agents pisses me off. I could REALLY write a crappy letter to one of those folks!

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I quite understand the frustration, Lauri. I think if I ever do another book, it will be in electronic form only and available through my website. Could that type of arrangement be viable for any of your writing?

Dave

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I think that would be a great idea. My big problem is how to be paid? PayPal doesn't work completely in Botswana. Last time I checked they only worked for one thing, I think it was for me to pay people. Do you know of any other way to sort out payment?

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Hi Lauri,
There's free software called VirtueMart that among many other things, supposedly handles conversion of currencies not fully supported on PayPal. I have no personal experience with VirtueMart (as I learned of it only a half hour ago), but it appears to be worth looking into. I imagine that your website guy could set this up for you without much trouble. Here's the website.

http://virtuemart.net/

Dave

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If you're talking about an eBook... what about Clickbank.com? Charlie, did you sign up with them yet? Do you recall if they take foreign exchange accounts? Must go look.

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The problem (I think) is not so much the taking of foreign exchange it is getting the money to Botswana. Most of these places don't want to deal with Botswana banks, more misconception then anything because our bank system is first class. I checked out PayPal again. I can use it to pay people only I can't get paid from them. I have a credit card and debit card so I don't know who can put the money directly in them.

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That is why I write." - Bessie Head


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