Customer Service Fails
You must have come across them more then once, service industries (shops, restaurants, general businesses online and in Real Life) who boast of high things, and then fail miserably. I came across it personally just the other day, going into a store I use three or four times a week because I needed to use [...]
The Bookstore
Working together we other people is one thing, getting to know them quite another. I was surprised to discover that one of my friends here – a friend of my Dad going back many years – has more to do with books than I had suspected, and this experience, this knowledge has pushed me on [...]
Plowing On
In face, despite the underlying feeling of discouragement, it is quite good fun. I mean the work on setting up a bookstore and a publishing company as much as anything. We’re drawing to the close of yet another semester and I have – sort of – time on my hands to do all the work [...]
Focus
Perhaps I am doing too many things all at once, but it just seems to be the right time for everything! Out with the old and in with the new. And in many ways every single one of my little projects is linked one with the other – they all have to do with writing [...]
Marketing Books
I mentioned yesterday that I am looking at different ways to market my publications – not just those written by me, but also those by other authors published by me – and I think I may well have found a solution. The solution, however, is considerably larger in concept that I had originally considered, but [...]
Time For Change
Anyone who has been following me for the last three years (and a few days, I missed my third blogging anniversary on May 12!) will already know where many of my interests have been in the past. I have written much about erotica; about the discovery of myself and my sexuality; about life as a [...]
The End Of Crowd-Funding
At least, the end as far as I am concerned for the time-being. After nearly two weeks of waiting I finally received a reply from someone at the last crowd-funding site I had thought of using to help find sponsors for my small press company. A straight refusal. Now, I can handle refusals without any [...]
The Hardest Loss
It’s hard for other people to appreciate, not having the experience, but some things are almost vital for life. In my case, because of my disability, it is a means of communication. There are few people who can sign, fewer still who have the patience to wait while someone writes down the words they wish [...]
Being Honest and Making Progress
It has been a hard week, a lot of time spent working on the new web site, on sorting out personal finances, on preparing and setting up campaigns to get my project off the ground. And, in-between, I’ve still got college, I’ve still got a normal life and – rarely, but still – there are [...]
Here’s Hoping!
I think that I must have burned the whole package of candles over the last couple days: working through the night to get my new web site up and running, putting on content, checking facts and figures, formatting and checking potential publications and, in between all that, checking various web sites, pages, social media to [...]
Back To Work
When I looked at the clock a few hours ago I discovered it was six in the morning and the sun had already begun to lighten the sky. I worked on my new project – Viktoria Michaelis Publications – right through the night. On the one side, not a good thing. On the other: I [...]
Funding: Getting Started
The first thing that I have done with my plans, the ideal of publishing my own work and that of others in print, is sleep on it. What may seem like a good idea at the start is sometimes more of a pipe dream than anything else, more something that lives in the world of [...]
In With The Crowd
Nothing stands still, the world is constantly changing and we all need to be able to keep up with it, to adapt, to move with the times. Unless, of course, we happen to belong to the Amish Community, but even they have had to change according to the world around them in small ways. In [...]
Getting Into Print
Getting published elsewhere is a wonderful feeling, a form of acceptance by peers and contemporaries which helps the inner ego as much as spurs on the desire to write, to create. It is not, however, an easy process and, as any published writer will tell you, also not one – except in a few well [...]
Quietly Watching…
I’m going to be a little bit quiet for the next few days, nothing to worry about, I’ll still be here and I will probably post each day as usual, but small things – like this! Hopefully I will have everything that I need to do out of the way by the weekend, Monday at [...]
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