When Will Book 2 Be Out?
August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’m starting to worry about a pitchfork-bearing mob; hopefully this explanation will help.
Golden Girl Press is a very tiny company funded by one person. Though the company takes care of its own day-to-day expenses, the big things – like printing Book #2 – come out of the pocket of the company’s founder/owner. Right now, that pocket is very thin and the cost of printing is not going down.
Which is why the release date keeps getting moved back. Life happens. (Check the past few months of TexasGoldenGirl.com if you don’t already know.)
Though the enthusiasm from my readers is welcome (it means I’m doing something right), there’s not much else to say other than it will be out when it’s out. Unless one of you would like to be an angel investor! One day Golden Girl Press will be a solid small press churning out several books a year. But it’s not there yet. We’re struggling to finish giving birth to this one (it is a big one, though).
Fingers crossed – it will be able to see the light of day soon. It will be a great relief to me and I hope you enjoy the read.
Thank you all for your continued patience.
Reserve a copy of Book 2!
April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You can reserve a copy of Book 2: Advertising and Marketing with just an e-mail. Simply send a blank e-mail:
reserve [AT] theinternetescortshandbook [DOT] com
You’ll receive a single e-mail notice before the book is available to the general public. At that time, you can choose to order. Your e-mail address will be discarded after the single notice.
Book #2 Progress: Editing
January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’ve gotten the manuscript back from my editor and am now going through her changes, as well as adding input from my First Readers, updated (or new) information and any other revisions. This is going to take longer than I thought, but I’m still on schedule for a Spring 2008 release. It just means not much else is going to get accomplished for the next couple weeks.
The feedback from my First Readers has been very positive.
Book #2 Progress: Completed!
August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The rough draft is finished!
There’s a lot to do: compiling the Resources, interviewing escorts, making sure I’ve included everything I intended — but it’s done!
Due to my poor planning, editing is delayed until January. That gives me plenty of time to promote it and Book #1, as well as do things like blog more and work on getting an affiliate program started.
Expect to see new Squidoo lenses from me soon, as well as an exceprt from Book #2 and the Table of Contents. Work on Book #3 starts in a couple months!
Book #2: Call for Volunteers
March 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I want to test what I’ve written in my Web site DIY (do it yourself) section. To do that, I need one or two volunteers.
To volunteer
You must:
- be an independent escort with a live, non-Flash, Web site
- have direct access to your Web server/hosting
- have a need to make text/link/image changes on your site
- be literate
- be willing to be a guinea pig
- be willing and able to offer feedback in a timely manner*
- be a DIY kind of girl
- not have any prior Web design experience and are very new to HTML
- use a Windows computer at home
*I expect you to read the text, attempt your changes and give me feedback within 14 days of you receiving the material. The feedback doesn’t have to be formal, but you will have to give lots of detail as to what did and didn’t work for you.
The Test
You get my DIY section on Web maintenance. You follow along and try to make your changes. You have to be able to tell me if I clearly explain the concepts, where I’ve made mistakes and how it’s worked out for you. (This will be an edited rough draft. I don’t expect you to edit, but if there is a glaring error, feel free to point it out.)
Understand you will receive copyrighted material. Although you’re more than welcome to discuss it however and wherever you want, you cannot copy from my work in any way. You cannot share it with anyone else, online or off. You will not make “notes” from it. You will delete my file when you are done.
I can answer questions, but I prefer not to. I really want to see if I explained what needed to be explained through the text. But if you really cannot understand something, then ask. It will make clear to me where I need to re-write.
Disclaimer
You cannot hold me responsible for messing up your site. The text includes instructions on creating a backup. I don’t profess to know everything — I’m trying to explain the most common situation faced by most people with non-Flash, HTML-based Web sites.
Privacy
Unless you want credit for being my guinea pig (and I’m totally willing to do that for you), you will not be mentioned in the book, online or in any public way.
Thank You
You will get a copy of the finished book as a “thank you” for helping out. You can opt of this, if you want.
To Apply
Nothing complicated here. First come, first serve, as long as you seem to understand what I’m asking. I do want to know the site you’re working on so that we’re on the same page when you try to make changes.
Contact me: missbrooks [AT] goldengirlpress [DOT] com
Book #2 Progress: Web Site Stuff
March 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been working the last two days on the huge Web site section. No matter how much I write, it keeps growing. I don’t know if I’m adding too much detail or not enough.
At any rate, I’ve finished the SEO section, the “hiring a designer” section and DIY maintenance. Still have work to do on all these sections but the main work is done.
I have to say that I’m astonished at the prices escort Web designers charge. It’s been more than a year since the last time I seriously looked at a range of designers.
Designers who charge several hundred dollars and severely limit the amount of pages, pictures or links you’re “allowed” are not good designers. Good mainstream designers don’t pull this kind of crap on their clients — they’d be out of business if they did.
I see these “escort” designers as taking advantage of their client-base. It really makes me mad, especially when I see the general quality of sites these designers churn out. And rarely do any of these “designers” know the first thing about standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, or even basic SEO techniques (submitting your site to search engines is not a basic SEO technique).
I didn’t see a single designer that I would recommend, even the ones that I thought made some great sites. Every one of them seems to want to tie you down to their (overpriced and underserviced) hosting and maintenance plans. Good mainstream designers don’t do this, why is it somehow okay for escort designers to? Makes me steamed.
Oh well, that’s why I’m writing the book I’m writing.
Book #2 Progress: Web Sites and More
March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been writing for the past week although I haven’t put everything down here. I’m re-tackling the Web site section and am working my through it in edits, realizing there’s even more to put in than I originally thought.
I finished the client correspondence section and have started on the Conclusion. I still have to write the Intro, but I’m thinking it will come easiest once I have a finished rough draft.
I made a major change in this book. I elminated the final section. I will make a formal announcement about this on the Web site and give some details here…but not today. Still have writing, research and basic editing to do.
The first draft of Book #2 is coming to a conclusion! Finally! Very soon…
Book #2 Progress: You Are Part of Your Marketing
February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Today I started writing the section on how your marketing efforts are extended when you meet clients in person. This covers your appearance, actions, speech, boundaries and your incall. I wrote most of the section today, but it still needs a bit more to be completed. Hopefully, I can do this tomorrow.
I haven’t written on Book #2 in a few days because I’ve been absorbed in other things. It’s really nice to get back to working on it. The ideas flow as long as I stay away from the huge, unfinished Web site section.
Book #2 Progress: Mixed Bag
February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
My mind is scattered today, so I haven’t progressed much. I finished up the phone/e-mail section, added another question to the final questions section and tinkered around with a few other bits here and there.
I’m absorbed with some marketing issues today so my mind isn’t on writing about marketing, ironically enough. Although I got less than half the number of words for my goal today, I did twice the number yesterday so I guess it works out. Tomorrow I’m going to have to concentrate. It will be time to start a new section.
Book #2: Phone and E-mail Basics
February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Today I continued writing on basic handling of phone calls and e-mails (I started this section Saturday). I discussed what options you have, answered some security questions and discussed it from a marketing standpoint. I went into much more detail than I’d anticipated, but I think it’s beneficial for the book (and its readers!).
There’s a lot more detail to discuss about security but that will be extensively covered in Book 3 and a bit in Book 4. Administration details also be covered in Book 3, although I went over a few little things here.
Still haven’t gone back into the Web site section yet, but I will. Maybe I’ll write the rest of the book around it and then finish with it and the Introduction (which I’ve made notes for but haven’t written). Soon I’m going to write the back cover. Then I can start working with the designer!
I look forward to writing regularly until this is completely done. I’m also working on other things while doing this. I need to because I think get too exhausted working on the book all day long (and that was part of the problem). But I do think that knowing I need to blog about what I’ve done for Book #2 during the day makes me sit down and write so I have something to report. It’s not a matter of motivation so much as it is a need to focus. So thanks for listening.
