Axis Mundi X discussion

http://annietupek.com/index.html

I knew my wife had been working on her website for some time now. Well today I accidentally hit the bookmark, amid my cussing, I was startled to see there was actually content on the page, and it is almost current. {:-o So I am glad that she is making ground to achieve her dreams.

That's great, Nick! You must be really proud of her. :D

Awesome! May she get published so you can sit home and watch tv on her dime.:)

Wow, I'm really impressed. I am going to put my teeny tiny bookshop online in the next week or so for locals to look at what I have and I have been trying for years but its too hard for me. So doubly triply impressed by your wife.

Sherri: Whats an LJ account? That might be something to talk to her about.

RA: That is the plan my man; that IS the plan.

Petra: you may also want to talk to the wiff, she is a book buyer of a local independent bookstore, and she set them up for on-line direct to customer sales. Saved the bookstore after barns&noble moved into town.

The life of Riley Nick - outstanding!

...and cudos to Mrs Servius on her accomplishment

Wow, Nick, how'd you score someone so cool? ;)

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll definitely check them out. I don't have it planned for online sales - I have a real live bookshop and this is in the nature of a window to show my customers what I have/what is new. A new friend who has quite a few websites (including an online bookstore) is doing it for me.

Bambo: I landed a good one... Yes I did. The trick wasn't getting her, the trick was keeping her;)

Petra: Well if you ever think about expanding without increasing your work load or cost look into treetop... teatree... I don't recall what exactly it is called but something to that affect.

SSH, my prices are higher than US because of the shipping and sailing. I ship to a US island and then we sail over and pick up the books once a week. No one from the US is going to want to buy books from me at +$2 prices. I want to expand my customer base on the island but I fear that having an online site will only mean that more people will buy from Amazon. Yes it costs them a lot to get the books in but they perceive it as they have to pay for a delivery service anyway and will at least get the Amazon price. This is one of the reasons I haven't had a bookshop website before. Its a dilemma.

I believe the treetop/teatree service is a site used by small independent bookstores, From what I understand it is an ordering site, they add all the orders from their clients together (so you get a mass market discount, like B&N) even if you are only getting a couple of books. Because Teatree/treetop is ordering thousands.

I'm sure you know more about the industry then I do, and certainly more about your particular micro market, I am just suggesting something that saved the bookstore my wife works at.

SSH, PGW is the same sort of thing so I shall check out Teatree. However I do order from the big distributors anyway. The problem is that very few companies from the US want to do business with anyone not from the US. I live close to a US territory and get a lot of refusals to send goods there even though its just a regular zip code. Many companies even though they use USPS to send to me charge me international rates although it is free within the contiguous US states which is really unfair but nothing I can do about it. Do you have a link for Teatree/treetop please as I can't find one. SSH I am always happy to learn more about the industry. I have no background in it at all, I just read a lot of books and it was time for a change of business.

Bunny - I live on an island of 14K people. There are two bookshops, mine which is a proper bookshop and another which which sells school books, religious books, some Caribbean books and cheap children's books. However the owner of that bookshop was the head of the college and is also what we call a ban ya ('born here'). He has all the contracts from all the schools in the entire territory, not just this island. I did get one fantastic one from a HS one year who were fed up with the fact that he would bring in the books but not have anything to do with the selection process. The next year the contract went back to him. Similarly I had two years of a couple of primary schools, but he now has their contracts again. I have tried time and again to get the big American school but I fell foul of them some years ago when my kid was thrown out because he had ADHD, needed a full-time teacher's aide, should have been documented and in a special school for slow children according to them. I didn't agree and even brought the UN in it. Anyway I lost. And it still burns. I thought it was racism (the school is primarily white) as my son is bi-racial although he looks white. Since my son, now 17, just graduated this summer from the local (black) high school with honors and a 40K scholarship I was proved right. But every time the school gets a new librarian they come to me love my store order things for themselves and then I never see them again.

That was probably all too much information. Sorry.

Nick, how's the book coming anyway...I'd read that. Seriously, I'd like to read that.

She is working on the final draft, and working in concert with a publisher. No deal yet. It was almost a done deal until I went through the contract and there were some things in there that didn't bode well with the misses. Basically, they were going to give her an advance, and a 1.5% royalty for 3 years. then all revenue after that would be theirs. (and the rights to the work also)Eh, NO nice try. The publishing industry is full of swine. But were working through it. I'll let you know when she has a release date.

This is so cool, Nick! I had no idea she was a writer. I thought she spent all her free time yelling at you. Well, I guess while you're up in the tundra she needs to escape!

she spends most of her time (doesn't matter if I am home or not) writing. I support her completely. Sometimes she has that "lazy artist" thing going on, but I have become real good at getting her to work again. She actually has many "books" done, but she never lets anyone see them. And she doesn't really value my opinion, because "I'm her husband so I must love it" This is completely false and she knows it.I absolutely refuse to read garbage.
I think I support her too much, and so now she is worried about rejection from the pubic at large. This is also bull, I am a solid Sci-Fi type and her stuff will fly off the shelves once her name gets out there.

Well, you can tell her, from a little Sci-fi/Fantasy geek, girl that from what I read I would totally read that book!

Will do, Amelia.

Congratulations to Anna!

Nice little web site she put together there. Nice and simple and to the point, but easy on the eyes. :::applauds:::

But, Nick...do remember to tell her that we're still coming up to throw a refrigerator, or a van across a field. I want to read her book too, but we're still coming.

Oh! Tell her she can autograph my copy when we get there!! :)

will do Amelia, I put my foot down with the big things sling-er. She knows it is going to happen, she knows there will be people here that she has never met... And I will inform her that it will be a big things sling-er/book signing, and it will be glorious!

Still hope to make it, but only can if the wife is out of her wheel chair by then... Sorry Nick, keep forgetting to note you about all that...Take to long now, I'll hit you tommorow.

Johnny

She's coming along. Just kept me a bit to busy and worried to keep stirring up potential Alaskan road trippers for a while. I'll be back at it soon!

Now then, where the hell did Varmint and Vicki Jean get to....Ahh found them!

Excuse me... ;-)

sorry to hear that Johnny. Hope she is doing better soon.

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Thanks! I missed you guys, you don't notice a lack of stimulating conversation till you get it back... Speaking of which, tell the wife congrats Nick, and put me on the list of potential reviewers....;-)

congrats to nick's mate and much love to Johnny and wife. My brother went from can't make a fist to can't walk within 48 hours when he had this, and she is already doing great compared to his arc of (complete) recovery.

i am only related to one website, my baby brother's (not the GBS brother):

http://tommyangelo.com/

if any of ya play, you could have a good time here. he is clever, grounded and wise. my fave rave of him is "tommy coached me in poker and it took five strokes off my golf game."

Nick, do we have a book I can buy yet or what?