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Self Published Author Gives a Spiritual Guide on India’s Cultural Activity
Author: Michael McCain
When tourists travel on foreign lands, they arm themselves with maps of the city and hope to help the economy with their retail therapy. It is quite different with David Carducci’s case because bringing home souvenirs was not the first thing that came to his mind when he travelled to India.
David Carducci self-published his book and fashioned it after the journal entries he made of his experiences for twenty-one days with the beautiful continent. His fascination with the ancient teachings of the Indian spiritual masters and his friendship with a wise Indian sage Surendra Vishwas enlightened his whole grasp of the Indian culture. Revelations of his social commentaries are patented in 21 Days in India and episodes of his adventures explain supernatural, paranormal and the unknown events that can only transpire in the continent.
“Of course, I did not know it at the time, because God and the Truth (one and the same as Gandhi would say), works in mysterious ways,” claimed self-published author of his new findings. Despite the cultural war now between India and Pakistan, David Carducci documented in his Xlibris published book that India is capable of sharing spiritual enlightenment and cosmic energy that can perhaps alleviate all the bad activity the countries are constantly balling at each other.
Surendra Vishwas said, “You should simply spend 24 minutes of each 24 hour day in quiet meditation. You cannot achieve it by anything I say to you or anything that you read. Speeches and books are just words. It takes practice to achieve the goal.” David Carducci spent 21 Days in India to accomplish such goal.
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I agree with tb33. You could also put a brief summary of each book you’ve written and the date written.
You could set up a blog that tells a bit about you and your views on certain things.
You could have a message board, so that people who come on can ask questions and join discussions.
You could put some games like trivia type games or a crossword puzzle (something that may get people to want to stay on your site for a while).
You could even put some downloadable things on your site: wallpaper or a screensaver that has something to do with your books.
You could have a guest book that can be signed by visitors, and perhaps write a newsletter to which people can subscribe. You could set it for monthly or bi-monthly or as there is news available, and give the subscribers the first news of a book about to come out or a book newly in paperback (or anything else like that).
I wish you success.
Probably, that would be a pretty big accomplishment, and it shows that you could finish writing a whole book, a good one at that. But it would have to be a legitimate publishing house, not one that publishes $5 supermarket impulse buys.
– Don’t write the entire book. The publisher will most likely ask for changes in the plot and structure. In any case, they won’t read the whole manuscript. What do you really need is to structure your book coherently but only write a few selected chapters from its beginning, development, and denouement.
– Get in touch with the publisher, possibly by phone. Contrary to popular belief you don’t NEED to have an agent, although it helps. Contact the publisher and ask the relevant info: who should you address your work to and how.
– Submit your work (the aforementioned selection) as agreed (which could be by mail, for example), including a presentation letter in which you, basicaly, tell them why they should publish your work
– Give them a little time to examine your work. Then contact again and fix an appointment. Go to the appointment and sort things out with them.
This is what professionals do. Good luck.
how important is rationality vs intuition?
how do you develop an idea or project?
what are you most proud of in your life?
how would you advize a young person, why is it important to be involved in literacy???
That wopuld be my ancestor, Julio” Author” Vasquez! YES!, you see, back in 1475, my ancestor Julio was in Canada. He was selling trinkets for a Baron Von Finkelstein. Anyway, when anyone wanted to buy something from him, he would say, ‘ This one or the author one”, ‘Ole julio could never pronounce words correctly, poor man! Anyway, people would call him ‘author’, because he was always walking around with a notebook in his hand.,and thats how the word ‘author’, came to being!!! The one book her did publish was called, ‘ A hundred and one mexican nights, A very, very rare find!!!!
You can call yourself published, but you should probably restrain from referring to yourself as a “published author,” unless you want to sound inanely pretentious when people find out your authorial status is based on a short piece on a blog.
First of all, if your only goal is to become published, you’re not going to get very far. The most successful authors of all time never wrote to be published. They wrote because they loved it. Hopefully you can appreciate the difference.
Just a tidbit here that might make you see your dreams in a more realistic field: There are less than twenty people under the age of twenty-one who have published a book in the United States in the past century.
But that doesn’t mean it can’t happen for you. There are several steps you need to go through before you can be published (this is all by traditional means, I’ll talk about self-publication later).
1.) Write the book. Don’t even THINK about publishing unless you’ve written the book!
2.) Edit the hell out of it. It must be [darn near close to] perfect. You may want to consider hiring an editor if you feel your story needs a good once-over. They will be able to help you with grammar, punctuation, and continuity. Remember that an editor is not there to do your dirty work. They expect it to be halfway decent before you hand it to them. Also, keep in mind that editors can be very expensive. But it might be worth it as first impressions in the literary world are a HUGE deal.
* Do not trust your friends and family if they say your story’s good. I know that sounds harsh, but they are not professionals in the business and they do not know what it takes to get published. They love you, so they’re going to be nice to you even if you make them promise to be truthful. Get an unbiased opinion — someone who will give you some good advice.
3.) RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH. Do not go into the business blind. Know what you’re getting yourself into. And this means doing more than asking questions on here.
4.) Next, you’re going to need to learn to write a query letter. Query letters are what you will send to literary agents (LAs) and later on, publishing agencies. Each query letter will need to be formatted to the specifications of the agencies.
5.) You mustmustmust get a literary agent as most publishing companies will not accept unsolicited work. You will need to send in query letters to at least five LAs, and hopefully they will take you on. Remember to submit your letters to agents in the RIGHT genre — most agents will only accept certain types of work.
You can research agents here:
http://literarymarketplace.com
http://agentquery.com
http://writersmarket.com
* You can get a copy of Writer’s Market at any reputable bookstore or your local library as well.
* Remember that getting an LA is almost as difficult as getting published, so don’t give up.
* LAs will not accept your work if it’s crap, so don’t expect them to.
6.) If you get an LA, good for you. You’re only halfway there. Your LA will help you to submit your COMPLETED and EDITED manuscript to the publishing agencies that will be most likely to accept your work. Do not panic if it’s not a company like Little, Brown & Co., or Random House. Trust your agent — they know what they’re doing.
7.) Be prepared for rejection. A lot of it. The greatest selling books of all time were once manuscripts, and even they go rejection slips. *Twilight got 9, Harry Potter got 12* if I remember correctly. And that’s EXTREMELY low. So don’t get discouraged.
8.) If you get accpeted by a company, congrats! This is the only part where your age will come into play. If you are a minor (younger than 18 years old), you will need to have your parents/legal guardians sign any contracts that come into play.
** If someone asks you for money upfront, it’s a SCAM. Do not do it! Remember YOG’s Law: Money flows toward the writer, not away.
** 10-20% of your profit will go to your LA, but he/she will not get paid until your book sells.
– Now, that’s all traditional publishing, which I feel is the best way to go about it. –
Self publishing:
* Self publishing, also known as vanity press, can be done by anyone. This means that there are no standards for publication. Even if your work is riddled with errors, you can still be published.
* VP authors must pay for EVERYTHING when it comes to publication. That would include: rights, printing, distributing, and promoting your book. You’re doing everything yourself without any help from a professional. This is very expensive
* VP authors typically sell only 1-12 books on average — mostly to their families.
* VP books are NOT distributed in major bookstores (typically).
* The plus side is, you’re going to get published no matter what. Just know that you’ll probably make no money at all (you may even lose money) and you will not be respected by those who went through the vigors of actual publication.
Whichever way you decide to go, there’s going to be a lot of difficulty. Publishing a book is not the fantasy they make it out to be in the movies. You don’t send your manuscript off in a cute brown paper package and then get published over night.
Good luck! 🙂
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Regards.
My personal opinion is that as soon as you complete your first novel,poem short story, etc.. you are an author. An unpublished author, but still an author.
The path to traditional publishing (IMO) ccan be a hard one, but just like anything else worth having, is worth the journey. Perseverance is the key.
Every writers works are important. Even if they are only important to themselves. it is what makes us writers.
As writers, we pour our hearts and souls into our writing, be it poem, short story or novel. No one has the write to belittle this effort. Writing is an art form and as such, is open to interpretation and criticism. However, we must push on! Our characters demand it of us! They deserve to have their story told! Never give up, never despair! We are on the right path! 🙂
According to this article, URL below, the youngest author is Christopher Beale who published This and Last Season’s Excursions when he was 6 years and 118 days old.
http://www.parentdish.com/2006/11/22/six-year-old-boy-becomes-worlds-youngest-author/
what is the best source for promoting your books as a published author?
I am a published author through Publish America and cannot even afford to buy my own books to do book readings and signings and to send them out to places to be reviewed. what are my other options to promote my books?
Who is the youngest published author in Canada? How old is that author?
I mean an author of fiction books. And published.
Someone informed me that you’re not a real author until you get traditionally published?
So until we reach that pinnacle, what are we? Unpublished writers, quasi-authors, non-existent authors, ghost writers…what?
If all these books we write are things of “non-importance”–then how do we get to become traditionally published?
Do we tell the agents and publishers, “Look: I have this great theme for a book, but unfortunately, I can’t write it because I’m not considered a traditionally published author”?
And if not, whose books *are* these? The endless pages of personal grief, trials and tribulations, personal loss, and/or triumph–that we (as writers) pen in?
Are these our works or are they just someone else’s? Someone who is traditionally published and knows more about writing than God himself?
Excuse the rant. But this individual (who shall remain nameless) really irked me at first.
Then it got me to thinking: “Hey! That person’s might be onto something! If we aren’t *real* authors than what the heck am I doing–still writing this book?” (lol)
Maybe I can get Stephen King to write my books for me? (chuckle)
I8pikachu:
(You did? What’d he taste like?)
The sad fact is that the industry isn’t looking for “new” writers that can write so phenomenonally *well*.
They are looking for people who can write what they have for client lists and can carry on the industry’s bottom line.
That’s all they are interested in these days: THE MONEY. Not the craft or the author.
I can write well myself, but the truth is, I’m not mainstream *enough* for them–even though I am a new writer. It’s simply a matter of good old-fashioned GREED versus common sense.
Money rules above all else–especially since the market is extremely tight. There’s literally no room for new writers. Everyone is just fighting to stay alive and stay in business.
Especially since more people are reading online than they are in bookstores these days.
published author?
I’m setting up a website for me, a published author, and I was wondering what to put on it?
Would being a published author increase one’s chances of being accepted into an Ivy League University?
Would being a published author and having a best selling (or at least good selling) book/or books published by a large publishing house increase one’s chances of being accepted to a university like Harvard or Yale?
What do you have to do to become a published author?
I’ve always dreamed of being an author and I love writing stories. I’ve just started writing a book that I’ve had planned out in my head for years and I just wanted to know, once I’ve finished writing it, what I have to do to get it published (if it’s good enough).
I know I’d have to go to a publisher but what would happen then?
What are five questions you would ask a published author?
I’m interviewing one of my professors, who happens to be a published author, and was wondering what questions would be interesting to ask.
How to become a published author?
I want to become a published author. I need to know how to become PUBLISHED, though. I’m not a legal adult, but I’ve always heard of kids who become authors, and I want to be one of them. How do I become published? What is the process? How much does it cost? What else can you tell me?
Thanks in advance.
Can I technically call myself a published author?
I sent in a small piece to the spark notes blog (spark life) and miracle of miracles it was accepted and is going to be published around the 14th. Is this being “published”? Can I call myself a published author?
Who is the youngest, published author?
I was just wondering, who is or was the youngest published author. I don’t care if it wasn’t a popular book, or even if it was a children’s picture book. I was just wondering. I will give 10 points to the correct answer!
Look, I was just asking a question and wanting an answer. They answer more accurately when they know they will get points.