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Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Unraveled in Self Published Book
Author: Michael McCain
Ninety years ago, the 1920s were thought to be the Jazzing Age of partying, fun and flappers. A series of events that led to an abominable criminal case convinced the people otherwise.
Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of abducting children, turning them into sex slaves and disposing their bodies on the ranch after killing them. Such a heinous crime transpired near the chicken house at the Northcott Ranch near Wineville. Hence, Gordon Northcott became synonymous to the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
Several boys fell prey to Northcott’s brutal hands and even his nephew, Stanford Clark, was not spared. Clark’s mom eventually found out where her missing son was and reported it to the police. The police’s revelation and Stanford Clark’s confession to his participation in the killings appalled the public when they discovered more dead bodies and missing children than expected.
James Jeffrey Paul wrote of how Gordon Northcott meticulously planned and plotted a murder case that botched up somewhere between his lack of talent and his crazy penchant for the criminal.
Nothing Is Strange with You is a self-published book that took James Jeffrey Paul decades to research and write. The author wanted to publicize the Wineville Chicken coop murder using the perspective of the criminal himself.
Nothing Is Strange with You is available on the online bookstores of Xlibris, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
About Xlibris
Xlibris was founded in 1997 and, as the leading publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish more than 20,000 titles. Xlibris is based in Philadelphia, PA and provides authors with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, custom leather-bound, and full-color formats.
For more information, please visit the book publisher‘s website , e-mail pressrelease@xlibris.com or call at 1-888-795-4247, to receive a free publishing guide.
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About the Author
Xlibris is a book publisher founded in 1997 and, as the leading publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish more than 20,000 titles. Xlibris is based in Philadelphia, PA and provides authors with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, custom leather-bound, and full-color formats.
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You should first start out by writing a article in the newspaper, maybe somebody will see your article and contact you.
BTW here is a site
http://www.searchforpublishers.com/
Yes, definitely. There is Penguin Australia, Random House Australia, Picador Australia … most of the multinationals have Australian arms.
There are a lot of great independent Australian publishers too, like the University presses (UNSW, UQP, MUP, UWA Press), Text, Scribe, etc.
when Shakespeare write his first book he wasn’t sure if anybody will read it, or will hear about it.
Just like you get a book published in America or England: Write it, Edit it, Edit some more, Edit more, submit, get rejected, edit some more, submit, (hopefully) get published.
The link below is the organisation that issues isbn numbers in Australia and will issue for self publishers. You need to fill in the application forms and there is general info on their web site for self publishers as well.
You pay your fee and it takes about a week. You can pay extra and get the isbn on a bar code as well.
Once you have published your book with the isbn you have to lodge a copy with the National Library in Canberra and also some state libraries will hold copies as well.
The other response about copyright being automatic is true. The act of putting the C in the circle icon on your work ensures copyright.
If you think your work may be plaigerised or that you may be accused of it yourself, you could take measures to ensure you can later prove the date you wrote your work. Otherwise getting it published and into the library system is a way of showing when you wrote your work.
An employee from Penguin Books, in the Books for Children and Young Adults division once told me that they receive approximately 3000 unsolicited manuscripts every year. Of these 3000, only one or maybe two will make it to print. The book which makes it to print generally has the have the support of the entire publishing team and widespread market appeal. Some of these books have gone on to be very successful – Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta was an unsolicited manuscript for a young adult novel that was sent to Penguin. Picture books are the most difficult manuscripts for an author to sell in Australia as there is a very limited market for them. Very few publishers will read unsolicited manuscripts for picture books. Publishers who do read them include:
Omnibus Books – a small publisher based in Adelaide. (If you send them anything, be prepared for a very long wait.)
University of Queensland Press
Other publishers, such as Harper Collins may be willing to read them if they are accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a manuscript appraisal service (such as Driftwood Manuscripts, which is run by author, Kirsty Brooks) or a positive assessment by an well known and established author.
Allen and Unwin, in their adult division have an interesting initiative called “The Friday Pitch”. On selected Fridays, they will advertise on their website for authors to submit the first chapter of their MS. If they like it, they will request to see the first three chapters or the whole MS. However, this is probably not relevant to you, unless you decide to write fiction books for adults. At present they are not accepting unsolicited MS in their books for children and young adults division. Personally, I think this is a shame as they are a very professional publisher and very passionate about Australian novels and writing.
Some agents will represent authors of books for children, while others do not. The agents who will look at your work include:
Cameron Cresswell Agency
Curtis Brown (Australia) PTY LTD
Golvan Arts Management
Jenny Darling & Associates
Rick Raftos Management
Before consulting an agent, make sure that they are a member of the Australian Association of Agents (go to the website) and that they do not charge a reading fee.
A valuable resource for find an agent is, of course, the Australian Writer’s Marketplace, which is published by the Queensland Writer’s Centre and available in most public libraries and also Dymocks stores.
But to answer your question, the odds are about 1 in 3000. These are relatively slim. But that does not mean that it is impossible. Melina Marchetta did it with “Looking for Alibrandi”. Mem Fox was a mature age at Flinders University when her MS “Possum Magic” was published by Scholastic. Of course, both of these books are very easy to market and have widespread appeal. Other writers, such as Sean Williams, Fiona McIntosh and Monica McInerney all had to send their manuscripts overseas before they would get published.
But I can only wonder at how many good books there are out there that remain unpublished …
Well, I would recommend using a regular publishing company, where they pay you –you don’t pay them…
When you ask for a company that is cheap, I presume you mean one of the outfits that will print (“publish”) your book for you if you pay the printing costs. If this is what you are looking for, I have heard good things about lulu (www.lulu.com). I understand the initial outlay is lower than other companies of this type, and you don’t have to pay for 5000 or so books up front. You only pay for the actual number you want printed.
Primarily you set up the whole operation online, and they print it the way you want it done. They also have other services you can hire as well. I can tell you that a very small percentage of people who go with the “on demand” publishing of this sort ever actually make money from it.
If it is what you want, then that is up to you.
As I said, I would recommend trying to get approval from a regular publishing company, where, if they decide to take on your book they will pay you for the first run estimate of how many books they think they will sell. The better known you become the more they think they will sell, so the greater the amount they are willing to give you in that initial check.
If they do not sell all that run, the publishing company is out that much, but if they sell more, then they will pay you the additional at their standard royalty percentage.
It is common to send your manuscript off to several (or even many) different companies before you find one that will buy what you have to offer.
The other idea is to get yourself an agent… They are often as picky as the publishing companies at selecting who they will represent. You will typically be paying them 15 % (but can vary between 10% and 20%) of what you make off your books, and to a newcomer this sounds like you are wasting money by giving them part of your hard-earned cash. In reality, though, they take over the job of selling your work, letting you concentrate on writing or corrections. They try very hard to make you money, because the more you make, the more they make.
Due to this consideration and the fact that a good agent already has built up a lot of contacts in different publishing houses, they are invariably able to get you a lot better deal than you could have gotten on your own. What does it matter if you give the agency 15% or even 20% of your income, if your income is 2, 3, 4 or 5 times the size it would have been.
I have mentioned before that if you have tried again and again to sell your work to publishing companies and they are just not buying, it is generally *not* a good idea to go ahead and publish yourself. Why not? Because they look at the manuscript with an eye to what sells -that is the business they are in. If they won’t touch it, they are basically saying that they feel there is some reason the book won’t sell. There is something wrong with it. That could be too many typos, poorly written or improper subject matter, poorly thought-out plot, or even something like “poor timing”. (What I mean by poor timing: say you wrote a detective novel in which the main character describes how terrorists could build a bomb and there has just been a serious terrorist attack in which a bomb was set off killing several people –poor timing.)
Often as an author, we are blind to the flaws in our own manuscripts. Trust to the professionals to know their jobs.
Publishing companies, however, will not often take the time to tell you what they thought was wrong with the novel. Agencies are different. If you have an agent, they will tell you what they feel is wrong, giving you a chance to fix/rewrite it… Your agent will usually work with you and may even fix some of the small things themselves, sending you the changes for your approval. This actually depends on the agency and your arrangements with them, but having an agent is generally far better than not having one.
If you go through a regular publishing company, you will likely end up with a reasonable amount of money –let’s say $5 to $10 thousand dollars for a paperback run for a new author, but it can be more. If you go with the you-publish-it companies, you can easily lay out that much or more and not get a cent in return.
Which way you want to go, is, of course, up to you, but don’t jump into a you-publish-it deal unless you have looked into it and decided that this is what you really want to do.
If I misinterpretted your meaning, let us know and I will rewrite my answer.
Whichever way you go, good luck with your writing.
Step one is always finish the book. Publishers hear about great ideas all the time, but you need to have something to sell to them. So, make the finishing of your work your main priority. If you have not published before this is very important, because it will show them what you can do and how good you are.
Once you have it finished you need to find a publisher. You could also try to find an agent who would look for a publisher for you, but they will take a cut of any money you get. The bonus is that the agent also might be able to get your work to publishers you can’t. When looking for the right publishers I would suggest going to your local library for information on publishers near you or checking out the internet. I know that there is a great North American book called the “Novel & short story writers market” that lists publishers mostly all over North America and some in the rest of the world, it will give you all the info as far as what publishers want, who they are and what they pay. It might be a good idea to try to find something close first, but keep your options open, as the more publishing credits you have, the better you’ll do. You should hopefully
A great way to break into the publishing industry is to be informed about it. Look for magazines on writing that can give you tips, and groups that you can join to give you contacts and support.
I’ve included a few places you can try below…
Best of luck!
Paypal or Worldbid (worldpay?) is good, I’m not sure which is better in Australia (Paypal won’t work in Russia, the Czech Republic, or a few other countries I hear).
You can set up a free website if you have an internet connection, but many of them don’t allow you to sell things, read the FAQ on the sites. You can find free web hostings by googling ‘free website’. To add paypal is easy once you have everything set up.
As to the Australian book publishers, have you googled that?
as long as your books good enough america will accept it. Get a good management team behind you who can help tp premote you in the states and all over the world if your books that good 🙂
Self-Publishing: How do you copyright a book in Australia?
how about the ISBN ?
How can I publish a book in Australia??
Please tell me how to publish a book!! I have already got some of it written up!!!!
book publishing?
who’s a good novel publishing company thats cheap, easy and reliable. i live in australia but i wouldnt mind using an over-seas company.
What are the chances of getting a children’s book published in Australia?
Where in australia do i send a childrens book to get published? and another Q?
Where do i send a book i’ve written to try and get published? in australia.
Also how do i set up a website to sell things i’ve made? do i need to get that paypal or whatever
What are the chances of getting a children’s book in Australia published?
I am currently brainstorming and writing ideas for children’s stories, as I love to write and writing for children seems like a very fulfilling path of writing! I have never had a book published so I would be a new author entering the market.
As my question states, I would like to have at least some idea of the chances of getting a children’s book published, in my country, Australia.
I have been researching and researching and researching a lot lately, but would just like some information from anyone that would like to share, especially those that have had experience in trying to submit manuscripts to publishers!
Obviously the quality of the book would change the chances, but as a rough idea, I would like to know the percentage or success rate of children’s books published in Australia by new writers entering the literary world.
Thankyou for all help
~floo powder
I live in Australia. What are the chances of my book getting published in the States?
Well, I’m planning to get it published in like… 5 years or so and I don’t know if they’ll just snob me and my work. What’s the requirement to get your book published? Does my work have to be good?
Do big or major overseas/foreign based book publishing companies have offices/branches in Australia?
how do it get a book published Sydney australia?
i’m writing a novel and i’m up to about the hundredth page and i’m just wonder how i could about getting it published
book publishing in AUSTRALIA???
just wondering. if you are in australia and ever had a novel published. not a cook book or a biography or anything. like a novel with a storyline, characters etc. if you have ever got one published how hard was it? ive heard its a long process, and many people get rejected. for those who were lucky enough to get chosen, how long did you wait to hear back from the publishers or your agent? and after that how long did it take until your book was on the shelves?
thanks