Well? I'm gonna be brief.
I did NOT make my deadline for Amazon's Kindle Direct Service.
Mind you that I can STILL submit the book, but when you submit to Amazon as an ebook only then you don't get a penny until 60-days later, so?
By not finishing and posting before TODAY?
Then that means I will get or WOULD HAVE GOTTEN PAID...!?
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At the END of SEPTEMBER.
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Well some of you MIGHT THINK that if I spent more time EDITING MY BOOK instead of POSTING ON HERE, THENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN?
I would've made it in time.
I wanted to initially sell my ebook at $10 because it was, according to WORD COUNT, 461 pages ONCE CONVERTED TO EBOOK.
I kept on going by PAGE COUNTS OF MY DOCUMENT AND NOT WORD COUNT AND THEN CONVERSION.
I went to POST MY EBOOK SUNDAY!? And NOTHING WAS WHERE I'D LAID IT OUT! I realized that chapters that WERE ONLY 25 PAGES PER?
GOT SPREAD OUT TO 41 PAGES PER BECAUSE OF WORD COUNT CONVERSION.
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So?
I chopped my book in half.
Then CHOPPED IT SOME MORE!
>_<
Based on CHOPPING MY BOOK!?
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I now have THREE FUCKIN BOOKS READY TO FUCKIN GO!
>_<
Meanwhile what do I find out from Amazon?
To get 70% royalty, THEY CAP EBOOK PRICES AT $9.99
So I can't sell my book for $10 and then I looked at the fact that they are selling ESTABLISHED AUTHORS for $9.99 MAX.
Now? If I take 30% then I can make the price ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE WAY UP TO $200! Now of course small-children see that Amazon CAPS the %70 royalty because the lionshare goes to THE WRITER. But allows A HIGH CEILING for when THEY GET THE LIONSHARE when you're at 30%.
I also found out that it takes 24 - 48 hours for the ebook to POST TO AMAZON. So when my dumb ass was chopping and editing and chopping and trying to get things in order from Sunday INTO MONDAY? I'd already fucked myself up by the time I realized ON TUESDAY AT 3AM?
"Damn? If I post it now is it gonna show up as JUNE 30? Or? Once they post it 24-hours later ON 3AM JUNE 1ST? ( Put June 1st when I MEANT JULY 1ST! Need. SLEEP.)
>_<
So in all of my trying to MAKE THINGS FIT CORRECTLY DURING THE CONVERSION? I went RIGHT PAST THE 24 HOUR PERIOD FOR POSTING IT. To say I was PISSED WITH MYSELF IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. Because I'd spent all of the time LEADING UP TO LAST WEEK, trying to FINISH THE ENTIRE BOOK. Then finding out that once I converted it?
650+ pages.
Way too many pages once converted.
I know I can advertise with Tariq and I know I should have just been like FUCK IT.
But I looked at that and was like, $10?
For 650+ pages of work?
Then I hadn't EDITED ANY OF IT! I was too busy trying TO GET THE LAST CHAPTER RIGHT! And I have had to learnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, what some of my previous proofreaders have said when they've been like;
"GOD DAMN SHAWN!? YOU CAN KILL A FUCKIN SMALL CHILD WITH THAT SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU WRITE, WAR-N-PEACE OUT IN THIS BITCH!?"
I've also had to admit that when Chrissandra said "Your writing is DENSE. So EDITING IT? Lord you can't pay ME for that."
>_<
I was like, yeah right whuteva...
Whut...?
Whuteva...?
Whut...?
GODDAMN I'M ONLY DONE 10 FUCKIN PAGES OF EDITING WHAT THE FUCK!?
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So she was right and over the last 4-days all I've been doing was going over everything AND THAT SHIT WAS NOT. WORKING. I posted here that I got Chapter Zero done and I did. Then I went Chapter Two. And I was like, SHIT THIS IS LIKE RUNNING UP HILL!
But the reason why is because THE CONCEPTS DON'T EXACTLY EXIST.
Anybody know what a Whore Demon is?
Any clue?
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No, no, don't need the smart-ass comments and smirks from you over there.
When I was finishing the book I think I came up on here and talked about what it was like TO DESCRIBE THE MAMMOTH-N-TUSKS and how that REALLY REQUIRED ME TO BE ON-POINT SO THE READER CAN ENVISION WHAT I SAID AND NOT GO SOMEWHERE I'M NOT INTENDING WITH THEIR OWN IMAGINATION.
So now, I missed the deadline. I COULD STILL HURRY UP and post to my Kindle Account and then SIT AROUND TILL END OF SEPTEMBER. So I was like, I KNOW WHAT I'LL DO!? I'll sell the book ON AMAZON while also SELLING THE BOOK ELSEWHERE FOR CURRENT CASH! COOL!
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No.
When you put ANY EBOOK ON AMAZON ACCORDING TO THEIR TERMS-N-AGREEMENT YOU CANNOT SELL WHATEVER EBOOK YOU'RE SELLING THROUGH THEM, FOR YOURSELF ELSEWHERE.
And yes, I read contracts.
So I decided I was gonna just FINISH THE LAST CHOPPED EDIT! And just SUBMIT THAT LAST NIGHT anyway. I worked and worked and worked to READ-THROUGH AND EDIT AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS IN ORDER. I got ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the way up to 11:30pm and I said "I can throw this up here right now. SHIT!? I DIDN'T FUCKIN CREATE A COVER!? AND I NEVER FINISHED THE DRAWINGS AND COLOR THEM EITHER FROM THE ONES I DID FOR PEOPLE ACTUALLY IN THE BOOK!?!?!?"
Then I realized. I've run around like a chicken with my head cut off. Chopped my work. Stressed to finish and I'm still not finished AND THE BOOK NO LONGER IS IN THE ORDER I ARRANGED IT. Because of this WORD COUNT CRAP.
I can't just toss this out there.
And I'm not.
So I didn't.
Instead I started searching for a means TO PUBLISH EVERYTHING MYSELF! AND I FUCKIN FOUND IT! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
So I found a site where I CREATE A WEBSITE AND LEMME GET THIS OUT HERE TOO! Do you know HOW I FOUND WEEBLY!?
Because I said "Well this is bad. I'm not gonna get shit till fuckin end of September. Annnnnnnnnnd bill will be paid how? With air? IOU's? Photo-copies of dollars with no cents? ME MUGGIN PEOPLE? HAHAHAHAHHAAHHA! Naw-naw-naw! None of that! Lemme think for a second instead of sittin here beaten myself up and stressin." then I said "Hold up? I want to OPEN A BUSINESS? This BOOK, fuck it, THESE EBOOKS!? Are my FIRST MEANS to generate capital and I need that shit now. Yo? I wanna go into business? Lemme check in on SUCCESSFUL BLACK BUSINESSMEN!!!!!"
NASHEED.
GOTTA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO TARIQ NASHEED BECAUSE HIM DOING WHAT HE DOES!? JUST SAVED MY ASS LAST NIGHT AFTER I COULDN'T GET THIS EBOOK EDITED IN TIME!
I said, who do I KNOW who is DOING WELL BLACK BUSINESS-WISE!? I IMMEDIATELY WENT TO TARIQ'S SITE and said LEMME SEE WHO HE USES FOR HIS BUSINESS SITE AND THAT!?
Is how I found Weebly.
Because I remember that TO BE SUCCESSFUL YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK TO SUCCESSFUL.
Now with all of this, understand that if Tariq wasn't DOING WHAT HE DOES? I can be as "smart" or "talented" as I can be. But there is always that FACT that I NEEDED TO LOOK TO HIM TO BE ABLE TO FIND A WAY OUT OF MY OWN INCOMPETENCE. THIS!? Is why Whites and White-Jews WILL PUSH NIGGERS AND COONS, because then Our People WILL LOOK TO NIGGERS AND COONS. The video ABOVE SAVED MY GODDAMN ASS, FOR REAL! Because I was like "I just FUCKED THIS UP RUNNING BACK-N-FORTH LIKE A FOOL! WITHOUT HAVING DONE MY RESEARCH RIGHT ON HOW SHIT WORKS WITH THESE EBOOKS-N-ALL THAT."
But I realized, I UNDERSTOOD. Yo? I can't just TOSS THIS EBOOK OUT HERE HALF-ASS. Because I'm running around trying to JAM IT DONE. CRAM IT DONE! And then finding out I overlooked this-n-I-overlooked that. I can't POST ON HERE ABOUT QUALITY BLACK PRODUCTS.
Then toss out some bullshit because I fucked up.
SO NOW!?
I have a MEANS. I HAVE THE MONEY. I HAVE A WAY!
Some people try to SHIT on Tariq Nasheed.
But that Brother just got me out of a jam by simply DOING what he DOES.
This is why we need to create businesses and REGAIN CONTROL over what WE ALL SEE AND WHO WE DECIDE TO FOLLOW AND LOOK UP TO.
With that said? Lemme get moving. Because now I'm gonna PROPERLY edit the book and read up and stop stressing and all of this other shit.
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