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Finished as a writer? When I didn't even say I am earning a living through writing?

I am a site engineer and a farmer, and more focused on screen writing. hey, u shld be ashamed that I got this far. I am still going to get published, ; D


Comprehension problem again? I get.



Now, Austins are not 100% vanity publaihers' get your facts right.

Just like farafina has kaficho press, origami has paressia, Amazon has amozon prints...and so on, u cld be offered to pay your $$$$ if writers submit unworthy scripts as urs.

I was clearly told (thru phone call) to either be available, get an agent or consider the printing press option (i'll pass)...but urs is clearly a case where a manuscript is so worthless they codnt risk marketing it..
Lol..(not my fault. So much for a professional)

Hey, dude, u forgot to tell me how far you've gone....screenshots, no? Tell us your achievements..u knw, popular books uve edited, yours that is widely available and so on.

I guessed as much...




I hope u will stop calling itself an editor because u helped people cross their Ts and dot their Is...real editors make worthless manuscript come out shinning...

Go get a real job bro and stop scamming people

felifeli:
Hey my last post was not even directed at you, but never mind. Why do you desperately want to believe that I am a publisher... any kind of publisher at all ? Anyway if it helps your case, that's okay with me.
Can you educate us on these :
1. How much does Farafina give upfront, and what percentage royalties? If you don't know this exactly kindly shut up and remain dreaming
2. How much is average royalties on non-academic books ? academic books? ebooks? they all have different royalty scales by the way. If you don't know this exactly please shut up forever.

Since you think it is so easy to make fantastic profit to publish your nonsense book, I still ask you to go publish it by yourself and then try to sell it. If you , this amateur person I am having a ridiculous chat with here can sell 10 copies of that book even to your relatives , I will take back my words that you only have superficial knowledge of what you originally posted. And if you can get your book accepted by Origami (or whatever) I will look for you anywhere you are in Nigeria, to personally apologise. From your behaviour here however I am convinced that you have neither the skill, talent nor the humility to succeed as a writer ; even to succeed as a common blogger....even as a lowly Nairaland post contributor.
By the way I could go on with this ping-pong chat indefinitely and keep you very unhappy, so keep it coming

keeping me u happy is just a sense if false hope you decided to give yourself. With a total act of temerity and great narcissism allowe to take you through my life in a short time:

1. I was never a literature student (but I will be soon), but a building technologist and a HND graduate.

2. Bad at tenses

3. Interested more in the motion picture than publishing (already finished one if my course in SCIPT writing, moving on to SCREEN WRITING)

Now, with those amateurish properties clearly embedded in my life, I have been able to achieve some very little success.

1. 2009, a recognition and monetary award with the department of building technology as the assistant editor and the author of the best article (KNOW YOUR WORTH)- it advises and deals with the discrimination between the Bsc and HND.

2. Won 50,000 from the NYSC chapter of kogi State (as a corper) in october 2011 for a mere manuscript I gave the chapter for free, titled (NOW THAT YOUR ALLOWEE DON INCREASE). I wrote this within three days- a book in entrepreneurship that deals with the sudden increase in our allowance from 9500 to 19800 and many were already talking of byung luxuries. This handbook contains 20 practicable businesses you can start with just 50,000!

3. After a long hiatus of working as a site engineer, I wrote a poem and submitted for the first edition of 'inspired by Gandhi international writing competition', sampad arts, Birmingham. Check page 81 (Google and check their website), my po, the list soul, was published(with five others from Nigeria) and an appreciative sum of $150 given personally by anie, my assigned editor for a well crafted poem. (check screenshot below)

4. 2015, my manuscript was accepted by a REAL publisher in the UK (I knw that hurts), but I shleved it due to advice, since I do not want to be proxy as the publiaher demands that I either be present of deal through agency. (Check screenshots)

5. My books are published online, okadabooks, bookateria, createspace - not mainly for profit (not yet. And they're unedited), but to get them 'published' for safeguarding.

6. My manual, BE YOUR OWN MANAGER- published on okadabooks has sold 6 copies online and 11 through email requests. Making 17...lol well, I tried Na...without any worthless marketing. Check my blog and grab a copy too.

*******

Now, Chuck's boss , oga felifeli,
As a professional editor (u said u av been published Na) pls, tell us your success story. Give a title and let us do the researches.

I am not the type that is scred to compete anywhere!!! I likened myself to anybody and will be glad to take on anyone of a fair play!!

I am a version of 'I can do antthinf', u are a version of 'u will fail if you try'.

I dnt biliv in 'you cannot do a thing in a way' because my ideology remains, 'u can never knw if u can or u can't untik u try'

When u open your useless mouth and say someone's script is worthless , I biliv u, since u are a renowned, successful and experienced author (I tried not to laff, I swear!)D , kindly Show us your works na

I am still on my point (even though I am just meeting an editor with a low IQ, , hence, a very low comprehensive skills), that vanity publishers, (the same u edit for) are scammers if they say they are publishers and still collect all you have for publishing your works.

The part you will never get (only God knows why ) is, I didn't advice anyone not to publish with you Na, make dem just no allow you collect ISBN for them. I dey advise my people to pay for printing. Na today we dey see people market their books for moto parks even though we see, published by vanity publishers? Lol

Oya, reply. But if your renowned works wont refkect in your reply, that is the end of story o.

Awifunni ko too Dani, agba ijakadi ni o

felifeli:
10% is nearly the standard you can hope to get from a conventional publisher. 15% is maximum.
You can only get 70% from "vanity publishers", who will of course do very little to market your books and charge you upfront for publishing it.
More often you may be better off self-publishing. At least you don't lose a lot of money upfront and you realise from onset that you will not earn one kobo if you don't get on the road to sell your books by yourself. You will also learn how difficult it is to sell even only 10 copies of a single book

duse, u shld stop barring your ignorance. 10% is what anybody cld get as far back as 20yrs ago, and take it or leave it, royalties will never increase.

I still maintain ure nothing but a rip off, and you rarely sell 50copiew of a whole book.

Since u already made your profit from printing, why worry abt selling the product?
Any of my friends don hit their head with vanity publaihers'...Na the same story. U get richer, they get poorer.

Being naive us not an excuse...just like footballers got wise and won't pen down demeaning and longtime contracts, so, it happens everywhere.

For example, get this right, origami books is now ready to accept submission, and a chosen manuscript gets a book deal, $1,000 cash price and royalties off front...

Come beat that..then u can talk abt your yeye 70% that no one gets to see. The 70% is your form of attracting them, but after u collected your own cash for printing, u basically do not worry abt helping the author...why shld u?

Farfina books gives u a book deal, royalty upfront and some cash. Many even place their promising authors on resident learning process.

Deal with it...

These are Nigerian publishers too.

My point, call a spade a spade, you're just a printer not a publiaher. Stop scamming people. Stop collecting their cash and still leave them high to dry!

mercylicious:
Am so happy there are publishers that pay up to 70% as royalty.
My dad was an author.He wrote 13 best selling books that are still selling twenty years after his death.

And how much do we get as royalty? A meagre 10% of the profit.
Sometimes I wonder why he signed those deals. 3 established publishers and not even one pays more than ten percent as royalty. They don't fight pirates. We do when we want the sales to improve. They don't do the marketing of the books the way they used to before. The books just sell on its own.

There is even one of his books that the publishers have closed up. Nwamife publishers have held the manuscript for over twenty years and have not returned it .They have no contact address at the moment.

Our experience isn't funny. I wonder how full time writers cope because the return is very low. To me, fame without money to live the famous life is useless.

thanks- be wise. I believe it was not wise to have agreed on a paltry 10% for his intellectual property

felifeli:
You are quire right though.
1. Why do you need a teacher when you can buy all the books and read up by yourself to get a degree? Service
2. In fact why don't you read up on topics and write those same books by yourself ? Service
3. Why do you need a restaurant when you can go to market, buy the stuff and cook it by yourself ? Service
4. Why do you need a bank when you can take a bus to Maiduguri to collect money owed you and then put it under your mattress? Service
5. etc etc

For every endeavour in the world, there is always a difficult way and an easier and more sensible way through someone who is willing to offer you the service of doing it for you at a fee.
Apparently it has never crossed your mind that publishers (including vanity press) are simply selling you a specialist service or a bunch of such services like project management, editing, artist, print technology etc . You only see everything in terms of a "book" ...which I keep telling you has no value until you actually find someone willing to pay money to read it.
Knowledge edifies. Ignorance destroys.
Have a lovely week .

duse, you're still perambulating around the same thing.

Nobody asked them not to patronise you, they just need to knw what they are doing. In all I said, did I suggest anything that sounded like, 'do not patronise them?'

yhermmie:
I was about to scream, when a hand covered in dark hair clawed its way out of Ella’s chest using naught be its long dagger-like fingernails. The hand, dripping in the blood of my friend covered my mouth, stifling my scream.

yeah, I read that part. But I biliv the creature doesn't have four arms whereby it could have held u aloft with one, covered your mouth with another, peel off the skin to it at the same time, no?

Pls, I am not trying to say you are doing a bad job, I just feel that, when we right fiction, we must be right inside it- hence, the details.

felifeli:
I biliv u are a 'publisher'?

How unbelievably ignorant and cocky of you. My first book published by a "real publisher" was as a result of another that I'd self published. The "real publisher" after seeing the quality of what I had been able to produce by myself by dint of perseverance and self-confidence decided to take a chance on me writing another book for them. Not that I found my experience with them quite satisfactory but this should be a step forward towards making the larger publishing world out there becoming sure that you know what you are doing.

No, you have not come here to enlighten anyone sir, you have just proved to everyone that you have written about a subject which you know very little about.

congratulations. You probably lack the basic comprehensive skills. Let me help you break it down, oh editor!

The post here enlightens, period. If you are pained, then that's your problem.


I have not come to say, 'do not patronise vanity publishers', I have come to say, 'avoid being scammed by them'.

What is the scam here?

Why do you need a vanity publishers since all they do is collect money, procure ISBN and own you, put your book on their glorified blog, give you a cheap hosted blog, print your copies and give you to go sell all by yourself, when you can simply...

1. Collect an ISBN and Pay an editor
2. Approach a printing company
3. Collect your copies
4. Publish online in many stores
5. Open a free blog
6. Sell your hard copies through marketing?

Now. Where does it says, do not approach a printing press? It clearly asked to recognize the scams.

Maybe you need to comprehend better next time before acting like a wonded chicken!

felifeli:
Good lord ! I didn't really mean to say that you copied the stuff from anywhere. Only that much of what you have put forward may not be any kind of option for a starting writer in any part of the world , who thinks he has a good story to tell but no publisher takes a chance on him , because publishing an unknown writer is too risky and you have to do a lot more marketing to get even some of your investment back.
I will advise instead that if you are serious about your writing at all, publish by ANY MEANS available to you.
1. Nobody is going to steal your worthless manuscript , and as an editor I have seen very many of those by cocky writers who think they have written the best book in the world.
2. Whether you give your book to a "real publisher" or a "vanity publisher" , you must still sell your book by yourself , one way or the other. If you think you can go it alone, by all means do "self publishing" , find your editor, book designers printer and go selling it by yourself keeping 100% of the profit. It is a very desirable option because giving your book to a "real publisher" does not guarantee that you will get a penny in royalty either ,quite candidly if they sell none of the book , there will be nothing to give to you as royalty. Eventually you may even find it more difficult to get your book back from "real publishers" because their contracts are usually tighter than with a "vanity press".

I think you have given a lot of important advice here... most of it bad unfortunately.

@KINGwax007 , who says that you cannot publish another edition of your book with a different ISBN ? Stop making people paranoid over their worthless writing.

I biliv u are a 'publisher'? I will pass. By the way, ISBN can come in packs, you can buy many if your book is to be in parts or series. Or you can obtain another one for another edition.. But ISBN are sold to publishers. It is best that one collects for ones book before approaching a printer. If a printer slaps the ISBN for your book, he becomes the publiaher with rights to your book.

I repeat this fact

The difference between traditional publiahers and 'vanity publishers' is that the latter only cares about the printing and stealing of your idea even though 'they' call it worthless.

There is nothing like a worthless manuscript- an idea for the best book may come from a sentence. The only time an editor can call a manuscript worthless is if the publishing company is not ready for that type of genre.


And many of the editors we knw only help you proofread to check spellings, misposition of letters. I have met those who wants you to change the whole concept of a twisted plot just because it is not a linear plot.

I am here to argue with you, but to enlighten the lots.

I wish you success

Nice one. Av always wanted (and I have tried thrice) to write a horror fiction, but I couldn't just get the ideas even though horror movies are still my best movie type, right from when I was in secondary school.

But, not to demean your write up, did you realise that as much as you tried to be detailed, in your detailing, you forgot to scream and describe the throbbing pain while your skin was being eaten like a shawama

Hermanie:
You should probably be reading more things like the da Vinci code, angels and demons, 48 laws of power and many more. There's a huge market for those controversial books if you can present it properly.
Myself I'm looking into crime fiction, or something that will make the reader question himself

veraiyke:
Very true. I met one ppublishing company like that online some years back which I made more enquiry and sent them an email. Since then they've been calling and emailing me telling me they have assigned someone to directly work with me on which platinum and all I desire.told me to send some amount of dollar for us to begin and then send my work. Hmm my piece that I spent years uuting up I refused and didn't o. Till last year ending they were still calling and emailing m but I stopped interactions with them. Right now I am still looking for a good publishing company at an affordable price to publish my work. Publisher of "how europe underdeveloped africa" told me 350k for 1000 copies. I have met others who told me 200k and even 250 but I'm yet to make a choice. Don't want to rush in and get a bad beginning. Those in phc share your views please

ENIMONEY:
what about self publishing

musicwriter:
I had wanted to contact "panaf publishing inc'' the publishers of ''how Europe underdeveloped Africa'' cause my book is going to be along that line. I'll appreciate if you can share their contact.

Acjohn:
Good work. It will be helpful if you can name some real publishers and the vanity ones since we are been truthful.

there are real publiahers' in Nigeria, you only have to present a very good manuscript. For example, Cassava press, farafina, origami and so on.

Abroad, there are Kensington publiahers, Pegasus, and so on.

But these publiahers publish as low as five books in a year and most times, publiahes the best that will sell.

For self publishing, try okadabooks.com, bookateria.net and so on for Nigeria. Overseas, createspace. When u make your books available on create space, it can be made available of many other platforms like Amazon, kindle, noble and Barnes and so on.

You do the marketing yourself and it's free. Collect your 70% royalty.

It is an eBook format. Not untik you request for prints do they call themselves publiahers. You are clearly instructed to choose to either let them provide an ISBN or you provide the one you've bought. This is what I want our own to do. Allow the author to choose!

felifeli:
So, how do you get your book published when "real" publishers refuse to accept it? Do you forget about writing altogether? These will be the realities you face as a writer.
1. There are only a handful of "real" publishers in Nigeria
2. 95% of them are only interested in academic books. Even most of their books they develop in-house.
3. Most are not interested in yet unpublished writers
4. All of them also do "vanity" publishing for good authors.
5. Many famous writers have done vanity publishing at one point in their career.

The OP article I must say is misleading and much of it is copy and paste from Internet articles which have very little to do with Nigeria . A good "vanity press" can indeed assist a good writer to jumpstart a career when there are no "real publishers" to be found . Of course there may be an alternative. You can do the publishing by yourself.

you are entitled to your opinion. There are tools online that check your plagiarism. My article is 100% mine after intensive research.

Harmonypublish:
99% of all books in nigeria are published by so called vanity press. We don't have any traditional publishing company in nigeria because we don't have the structure. Find a good so called vanity press, publish your book and begin to sell. The problem with most nigerian authors is that they don't have fan base and they haven't take time to build one. Another thing is that most authors think their manuscript is the best thing after slice bread. My advice to you is; build your base through blog and social media. Understand how the market works. Look for a small successful nigerian authors and ask them questions or follow them closely. You will notice all of them used so called vanity press.

I understand there are lots and 99% of vanity publishers in Nigeria, but will you stop calling yourself 'publishers' because that is a misrepresentation. You are printers. Calling yourself publiahers' is preparing a snare for new writers who didn't knw that giving you the right the ISBN means you own the author. That is pure fraud because the author definitely paid for his printing. More than a quarter if a million is not child's play. Accord the author his/her rights.

In self publishing, the indie author is the publisher and not the platform. Unless, of course, you opted to use the platform to generate an ISBN.

In self publishing, you pay for editing, pay for printing, collect your printed books and start marketing. If ever a printer sees that the book will sell, he can decide to share in the loss and profit by contributing to the whole of the financial process...

Now, I am not saying that authors cannot use vanity press, I only want them to realise what they are doing and what they really want.

To be known, you can use a vanity publishers, but be great assured, getting a real publisher is not that hard.

I wish you success.

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inkon:
edifying!

I hope you now realise how we were being scammed?

It is no news that every writer would love to get published, but what most of us failed to realize is that, as an aspiring and upcoming writer, we must understand one thing- we are an easy target!

I am sorry that I have to be that blunt about it, but how else does one say the truth without saying the truth?

Many so called ‘publishers’ will hijack your work, trash you and your work, tell you to forget about writing, tell you to bring a fortune for editing or publishing and so on. You will be put in a snooker, such that you will forget that you even have an option.

But believe me, not all these vanity publishers are so harsh with the way they respond to your submission, some of them are so nice, until they get hold of your manuscript.

WHO IS A VANITY PUBLISHER/HOW CAN YOU RECOGNISE THEM?

Vanity (or subsidy) publishers are what we can call ‘a glorified printing press owners’. Someone just got the opportunity to own a lovely printing press and viola, he calls himself a publisher just because he is in the art of obtaining ISBN for the unsuspecting writers!

These people set up companies and employ some editors who will proofread your manuscripts and most times, have no idea of what you were even trying to pass on. Vanity publishers don’t even have time to read your manuscripts- they rarely do. The moment they see your mail, and probably your synopsis and your three sample chapters (which was never read because they don’t really care about you), they will send you a nice reply about how the board of editors have passed your book for the final editing and how you will be contacted if your manuscript is to be considered for publishing. Be rest assured, it will be.

Now, after congratulating you about ‘your manuscript meeting their publishing standard’ (if ever they had any) and how it is being considered for publication, you will be asked to send the WHOLE MANUSCRIPT for the editor’s perusal (please, don’t) and a publishing agreement will be forwarded to you for your rejection or acceptance. You will definitely be thrown a bait of the popular 70% royalty on every sale too!

Now, don’t get it twisted, real publishers will require these too…

But the main focal point to identify a vanity publisher is that, “you will be required to pay a small fee as commitment before your book is published”. By the time they give you a price, you wouldn’t realize that it had already covered the cost of printing the required numbers of copies they promised to print (exactly what you paid for)!

Now, let us stop here and get some air.

Vanity publishers don’t care if your work meets any standard, and your manuscript is not even safe (especially if it is not copyrighted). All they wanted to do is their job- print and make profit. But after 500 copies (or whatever you paid for) have been delivered, your books will probably ‘not leave their shelf’.

For the marketing aspect, vanity publishers will provided with a free blog and hosted at a very cheap price- all within your payment! If you happened to make good sales after you are left to put in every last effort on marketing, good for them- not you, because the 30% that belongs to them is a plus, after the initial profit of printing. And worst still, you must have already entered a contractual agreement whereby, if your book ever made unexpected headlines, you are indirectly advertising them for a job you paid for, and helping them make more money.

They probably call themselves publishers because they have helped your lazy and ignorant self, purchase an ISBN for your book, registered in their name too. So, technically, they are profit-partakers of your work and owing part of the copyright. So, when you get lucky and either got a bigger book deal or a movie deal, don’t forget, you’ve got partners whom you’ve paid to help you print, collect ISBN and still waiting ripping you off by sharing in the profit!

Note that whoever owns the ISBN owns the book and the author.

SO, HOW DO YOU AVOID THEM?

Like I said, all steps involved, from submitting a manuscript and accepting to publish you, are real until they ask for the whole manuscript without a pre-contract. So,

1. Never send your manuscript without you getting an ISBN. This is very cheap, and the process is quite simple. Contact the copyright house in your locality. If you cannot afford this, ensure that your manuscript is published online (at your own risk), self-published (even if you won’t sell a copy of it, it will still be registered as a published book) or simply send a copy of the manuscript to yourself or friends by mail (they may not open it, but it will have a date and time as reference).

Vanity publishers employ ghoat writers who, with your synopsis and sample chapters, will rewrite your good story!

2. Don’t sign any stupid agreement that requires you to pay before you get published.

3. Don’t pay before or after you are being considered for publication.

ANOTHER WAY TO IDENTIFY VANITY PUBLISHERS IS TO IDENTIFY THE REAL PUBLISHERS

1. That will offers to take on the publishing and major marketing expenses;
2. That are ready to assign you an editor to take you through your whole editing experience and;
3. Ready to meet with you or your agent to discuss terms and agreement.
4. They may offer you a pre-contract before asking for the whole manuscript (pre-contract is not necessary, but you may be asked to sign an agreement for the safety of your manuscript) and
5. Will be ready to give you (not a whole 70% of sales but maybe far lesser because they are the one taking on the expenses including major marketing) your royalty.
6. Real (traditional) publishers will show the zeal to publish your manuscript if they feel it will bring in profit through sales, thus, they are always ready to spend their money and make it go places while you are made ready to read the excerpts to book clubs, sign autograph and rake in royalties with less effort.

So, dear readers, before you are being deceived by Printers who brand themselves as publishers, think twice and do not be in a hurry or you will be left to market your books at car parks just to break even (if you ever will).

Printers already made their profit the moment you pay them to print the numbers of copies that your payment covers, and you will do all the marketing for them.
Do not bring down your guard or write off yourself because they believed you cannot make it in the outside world- who says?

Remember, keep writing, and keep getting better.

Thank you.

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lizbethy:
Tanx for this wonderful poem , it spice me up to face & fight my fears

pls do. Do that which you feared most...and ur fears will diminish greatly

texanomaly:
Nicely done. I like how you used personification to bring your fears to life and speak to them. You started out using a rhyming scheme in stanzas 1-4 and continued in your last one. You dropped it in stanzas 5-6. Insightful work.

thanks ma'am.

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What are your fears?

What are your aspirations that you had to abandon because of fear? This is for you...you can do this..

THE END OF MY FEARS


Oh ye, my fears!
Will you come a little closer?
You must lend me your ears
I can’t tolerate your strength any longer

The more I try to avoid you
The more you get closer
The more I try to evade you
The more you get stronger

Your arrogance reeks to the sky
With your strength, you pulled me down
Your victory, you always declare
Even in my sweat, I was always the clown

You bullied me at the slightest chance
You laughed at me when I was down
You abandoned me in my moments of trance
You made me into nothing but a clown

Today, we must come to terms
And you must lend me your ears
From today, you will reside by my side
There will be no more drifting apart

I must keep my courage close
But you, my fears must stay closer
I will go all the ways you go
Until the last of your existence is conquered

Oh ye, my fears
Will you come a little closer?
You must lend me your ears
I can’t tolerate your strength any longer




*while I was a kid, I had my shares of fears. Many of which I respected and try to avoid. But as I grow older, I realised that, avoiding your fear will o ly make it stronger. You have to pull it closer to your heart, embrace it- and it will only be then, that you can conquer it.
Thank you.