Good, positive mojo headed your way! I'm sure it has a great chance considering the wonderful reviews it has received so far, Good luck!!

Spreading the mojo!

Doing my Super Publication Mojo Sharkflip Dance for Donna!

That's been outlawed in some states hasn't it?

This should be in the vent thread, but better to put it here.

Bad news: blurb is upping the price of the book as of September 30 and it will increase to $60.

Possible good news: if this gets picked up by another publisher, this will be moot and the PB edition will be collectible.

If you want it, have not bought it, might want to do it before 9-30 as the possible good news is such a longshot.

:( :mad:

There's a peanut butter edition?

Seriously, are they raising pricing on all books or just yours?

One other thing to look at: your goal was to sell 100 books and you have already exceeded that by close to 50%. Your book is a tremendous success and you should be proud. Anything else from here on out is gravy!

Across the board on most books. It's all based on page counts. The smaller books (by number of pages I think up to 40) are not changing. The HB editions in some sizes are not changing (not honey butter Kevy, hard back) ;)

I'll re-upload a corrected edition of the book on October 1. There were some edits to be made and I've also since learned the name of a previously unknown person in a couple of the photos. :)

I'm extremely happy with the sales, how can I possibly complain? I never though 100 of them would sell, not at this price. If the sales slow down, I can live with that. As you pointed out, I've sold well over 100 copies. For a book that is word of mouth, I think it's pretty good. With the price increase I do expect Larry Edmunds to stop carrying them, they're not making much profit on them.

I also need to keep positive that the efforts to get another publisher to pick the book up will bear fruit. If not UC Press, I'm all set to pitch it to Chronicle Books and I may even pitch it to Rizzoli. There are a couple of LA publishing houses that might be interested, as well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Rather than starting a new thread, I wanted to post here a story about a different company than Blurb (the outfit that Donna used) that promoted self-published books. Seems that they are not as reputable as Blurb.

State files more complaints against vanity publisher

Snowflake, I just KNOW this is going to bear fruit for your publishing career, in one awesome way or another. It's already such a smash!

Thank you Heidi.

To give you an update, the emails back and forth between the UC Press editor and myself have been very positive. She'll have a copy of the book this week and we shall see how it goes from there.

If this miracle happens, there will be rewrites as they will want more text. I guess I should not have been so generous to send almost all of my research paperwork to NY to the Valentino family biographer. :blush: It's okay, it's not hard to find the stuff I utilized. We need to get past step one and get something in writing.

At least all the images used are hi-res and on my external. I'll be backing them up on DVD as well!