Sgt. Mom’s fundraiser

Sgt. Mom wrote a book. So far, she hasn’t gotten a publisher, but that’s not stopping her. Now she’s going to try to self-publish, but that’s not inexpensive, either.

So go check out Sgt. Mom’s post where she tells you about her book, the rejections, Plans B, C, D, and E, and if you have a few extra bucks, hit her tipjar. It’s all my fault, you see. I liked her writing so much when she was a plain old blogger, that I told her she should turn her words into a book. So she did.

So, maybe if only 5% of the manuscripts floating into agents’ offices, and publisher’s submissions sub-sub-sub contractors are good for anything other than landfill. Everyone thinks they have a book in them, and the fact that in most cases it should have stayed right there is beside the point. The OK to Pretty Damned Good stuff is still an absolutely unmanageable quantity. All the competent and ethical agents seem to have about all they can do to look at hundreds of similar OK to Pretty Damned Good submissions clamoring for their attention and time and make a snap decision on accepting and managing the tiny percentage that will pay off with the least amount of effort on their part.

Yeah, they kept sending me these letters admitting that they just didn’t feel the passion for my book that they felt was necessary to represent me adequately. So, apparently no one feels sufficiently passionate about “To Truckee’s Trail” except for me, and about a dozen people who have read the entire thing and loved it passionately as well.

Unfortunately, all those people were just readers and other writers… so, here goes Plan B.; a fund drive to do a POD version, to buy advertising, and put review copies where they will do the most good. I think I can promise an autographed copy of “To Truckee’s Trail” to anyone who contributes over a certain amount.

Hey, conservative readers: give her the money you were going to give the RNC before the Republicans jumped ship on the amnesty bill. And then send a letter to the RNC telling them. Two birds with one stone!

Liberal readers: Well, geez, she’s an underdog. And a writer. And a woman. Pick a cause.

Centrist readers: We just like her. And we support the military.

Anarchist readers: Oh, like I have any of those that come here to do more than leave an offensive comment for me to delete.