Poetry Book Update

Hello Poetry Peeps!

I hope y'all are having a good Sunday! As you all know, I have plans to publish a book of poetry called Popcorn: Poems You Can Munch On through Publish America. When I originally looked at their site, they seemed to be a wholesome company.  However, after I signed with them, my wife told me that my father-in-law had e-mailed me some information on their bad business practices that I didn't know about.  For example,  Publish America will ask for an address list of your family members o they can aggressively market your book to them.  They also aggressively send mail outs to the author to pressure him or her to buy his own book to sell himself.  I have also found out thru websites that they don't do anything to get your book into stores to sell. I knew from the contract that I would have the option to buy my book at a discount but I did not know that  they would pressure me to buy my own book.  I also didn't know they would want the address of my family members.  Even though I knew that I would have to do my own marketing LOCALLY, I didn't know t hat they wouldn't do much to market my book period.  I also found thru these websites that Barnes and Noble refuses to carry books from Publish America. I also found out that they don't do much editing of the book.

  I really want my book to get into as many people's hands as possible for ministry purposes. I have e-mailed Publish America that I want my contract voided because of this.  I even included the information and the links to the information I found.   I have also asked for advice about this with my pastors. So please keep me in prayer, because I would like to get out of t his contract and pursue another avenue to get this book publish.  I don't want to publish a book and no one is able to get it.   So please pray that God will allow me to get out of this contract.  If not, please pray that God will allow me to do the honorable thinga nd get it published thru them.  Despite having to get this published thru them, that God will still open doors for people to get this book.

Thank you for your prayers!

In Christ,

Jerry