I wrote a book, put it in chapters, with illustration. ....documenting my entire drug addicted life,...so addicts have entertainment...and unity. .......and to answer meth related questions for non users.
so, NOW.
.....I have NO IDEA what to do to get it in book stores. I want to keep my "poetic style" ..........I want it to be the way i wrote it.
so, I have to search...or they want it edited. .................I've been searching for about 8 months.
and once I damn near gave my rights away, trying to publish one story at a time at associated content.
You could always publish it yourself, it's not terribly expensive. Shop it to smaller chains and independent stores, get it on the shelves and then when you get noticed you can keep the copyright but sell the publishing rights.
You make money on the publishing, AND the sales. It's win-win.
If you seek "professional" publishing, the book will be edited. If you are assigned a decent editor, it will actually help. If you get a mismatched one, your writing will suffer.
If you pursue self publishing, you can end up with a very nice product, but have a really hard time distributing it. Most book stores will not take it. Amazon will, though.
If yer not too concerned about making money off it, copyrite it (in case it takes off and you get a distro deal down the line), xerox and distribute it zine style in record and comic shops on consignment. Or, if you really want it to help folks, go to all the 24 hour convenience stores in the area and tape a copy of it to all the mountain dew 2 liters in the fridge.
I am almost sure that Lulu is not the only company that uses the self-publishing motif. I remember reading something about self-publishing in the Writers Market for 2007; it stated that self-publishing is expensive, having you, the author, paying for distribution, production, advertisement, etc. This is the reason why so many writers want to throw their MSS into the hands of publishers, so they can sit back and not worry about the administrative function of publishing, allowing for them the freedom of writing. If you have the money to do it, go for it; although I think you should bend a little bit if this is the first MSS you have sent in.
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First thing to do is make a copy, take the original and mail it to yourself. Keep it sealed - the postal mark makes it a federal copywrite.
Then there are unlimited options, depending on your budget - There is the online thing, then there is always shtuff like this: [Click, Dick]
If you don't want to make a 'living' off the book and actually want to help people I would recomend going to treatment centers, counselers, etc and giving them a copy, and ask for funding. Also make a website to do the same. Take the proceeds to publish the book, minus a little for all your time and effort.
.........thrash I wrote you to ask how to take a picture of the screen again....I forgot what keys you use.
also:
there was a ceral killer at AM ...he's banned now.
apparently, when you right click his KCI avatar.. ...dead girls showed up..........
Erotic asphyxiation, asphyxiophilia, or breath control play, is the practice of intentionally reducing the amount of oxygen to the brain during sexual stimulation in order to heighten the received pleasure from orgasm.
The act of depriving oneself or another of oxygen for the purpose of achieving or enhancing orgasm is classified officially in the United States as hypoxyphilia, according to the American Psychiatric Association. The APA classifies hypoxyphilia as a mental disorder, as noted by the periodical Psychology Today.
Hypoxyphilia falls under the category of psychiatric disorders known as paraphilias, a term that refers to an unusual or unnatural attraction.
Dr. Joseph Merlino, author and psychiatry adviser to the New York Daily News, considers it fundamentally a disorder.
"Somebody going into that who doesn't consider it a serious threat to himself is somebody who is not informed," said Merlino in an interview. "It could have a very lethal outcome.
It's a pathology, strictly engaging in that, like someone who wants to play Russian Roulette to have the excitement of hearing a click, but the bullet is not coming out. That's a disorder because it has the potential for lethality or serious injury."
A sexual partner may or may not be involved in the act. If a partner is excluded the practice can be referred to as autoerotic asphyxiation, or AEA.
In the BDSM community, interactions of this nature may be referred to as breathplay or sometimes edgeplay, and generally include a partner. Because like other forms of edgeplay breathplay pushes the limits of "safe, sane and consensual", situations involving breath control can be assessed using the acronym RACK or Risk Aware Consensual Kink. Partners are generally expected within this community to be cognizant of and responsible for the dangers that they may take part in.
Various methods are used to achieve the level of oxygen depletion needed such as a plastic bag over the head or self-strangulation, typically by the use of a ligature (scarfing). The practice can be dangerous even if practiced with care and has resulted in some accidental deaths.
Historically, the practice of autoerotic asphyxiation has been documented since the early 1600s.
It was first used as a treatment for erectile dysfunction and impotence.
The idea for this most likely came from subjects who were executed by hanging. Observers at public hangings noted male victims developed an erection, sometimes remaining after death (death erection), and occasionally ejaculated when being hanged.
Note that, however, ejaculation occurs in hanging victims after death because of disseminated muscle relaxation; this is a different mechanism from that sought by AEA practitioners.
Deaths often occur when the loss of consciousness caused by partial asphyxia leads to loss of control over the means of strangulation, resulting in continued asphyxia and death.
While many do enjoy incorporating asphyxiophilia into sex with a partner, others enjoy this behavior by themselves, making it potentially more difficult to get out of dangerous situations.
Victims are often found to have rigged some sort of "rescue mechanism" that has not worked in the way they anticipated as they lost consciousness.
In some cases autoerotic asphyxiation may have triggered carotid sinus reflex death, but this claim is controversial.
The mailing it to yourself copyright trick only works against other small operators. Anyone with a lawyer can get around it.
If you get a publisher, they will take care of the legal stuff, but they will also hold the copyright, and can control when the work is made/distibuted.
If you think the manuscript is done, you can start submitting it to publishers. Their websites will have instructions on how to do that. I'd start with small, self-help marks first.
