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I'd have to go look at the exact numbers (its in the letter of rights return), but I am thinking I ended up with around 600-700 books.
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I ask because if you have since been published is it possible there could be a kind of 'second hand' market for them (I assume you own the right to distribute them). You could even try Amazon or a local book seller chain, maybe they have a local writer section. Just a thought. You may get some kind of return even if its just the satisfaction that it's being read by someone.
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I have a right to do pretty much whatever I want with them. SRM Publishing is letting me sell through their website. My editor at YDP lets me sell them off the table at conventions. And I can do the Basement Full Of Books thing from SFF.Net if I want to since I am a member (just haven't set it up yet).
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If nothing else it's a lesson to us all. It certainly hadn't occured to me that getting published isn't the end of the trail when it comes to counting oneself sucessful. Sounds like a nightmare that you had to me and for that thanks for the sharing.
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As Marion Zimmer Bradley (who bought my first short story) used to say, "No one told you not to be a plumber." The economy being what it is, I have now seen three small press publishers I've been associated with go down, and I have learned that one other publisher I've had a book with for several years is letting me out of my contract when it expires here in a few more weeks. Which is normal. And as I understand it, they have gone through some restructuring.
It happens.
One just learns to "get over it" in some fashion or another.
I let my inner geek run rampant and buy new electronic toys to make me happy.
Laura J. Underwood