Renewed Hope for LOS Tots Network?

The first, well, the 2nd if we’re including my autobiography, book I’ve written is a 120,000 word masterpiece that may never fill the pages of a paperback book. The entire book is about vigilantism, which by itself is a great topic. However, the subject of the vigilante attacks are pedophiles. International pedophiles to be exact. This topic is taboo in the publishing world. Publishers WILL NOT publish a pro-pedophile book - which I’m happy about personally. But, they have blinders on to the entire subject, pedophilia. They lump any book that has a main character or a main focus of pedophilia as taboo. Which - in this case certainly is silly.

My entire book deals with repaying the sickness that pedophiles exhibit with twisted sickness in-kind.

The main character of my book - a psychotherapist who has counseled child victims of pedophiles in the states comes to Thailand and stumbles upon a secret online pedophile network based in Patong Beach which he goes about systematically destroying. Torture abounds. Bangkok books called it too graphic for them. Doesn’t graphic violence SELL BOOKS?

Hmm.

Anyway - so, I was researching to see if there were any other books with a remotely similar topic that were ever published by a major book house. OUILA! Is that the French spelling in English?

Fatal Convictions by Shari Geller was published by Harper Collins in 1996! I was so happy to find that on Amazon books that I damn near jumped up and spit.

Finally - I found a book published by a MAJOR publishing house that is similar to my story.

I’ve renewed efforts at getting LOS Tots Network published since it’s receiving good to great reviews from readers and has been downloaded over 7000 times in PDF format.

There’s hope yet… hold tight.

Mike

Writing Books for Profit (Writer’s Profit Statement)

Someone referred me to an interesting post by John Resig. He’s a programmer that wrote a book and he shared his publisher’s statement on his blog. It shows that he sold a LOT of books and made very little cash. This is the norm in his field apparently as there are many authors writing technical pieces about programming and if you sell more than 4,000 books you’re considered to be doing pretty well.

If you are looking to publish your first book you might find his page interesting… I did!

John’s Programming Book Profits statement from Apress publishing.

Interesting, yes?

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