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Post by Caprice on Jul 4, 2008 0:55:31 GMT -5
By "paying gig", I meant all the contributors. There is quite an array of recognized novelists and non-fiction authors writing all the various articles and I was wondering if Ms. Calhoun was paying THEM. Are these authors all "on staff" now? I could not find any "guidelines" that would lead me to think they were looking for new contributors for later issues.
I wouldn't expect it to be a cash cow for Bonnie or Michelle, even if she wasn't paying all the contributors, but the list of recognizable names was pretty impressive and if she isn't paying them, I'm wondering what kind of arrangement they have. Randy's big ad [no dancing girls--LOL], placed prominently on his "Randy Rooney" page, looked to be like perhaps it was part of his arrangement.
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Post by M. C. Pearson on Jul 8, 2008 1:28:35 GMT -5
I ain't touchin' this one! :-O Glad you guys are enjoying it. I haven't visited the new magazine and don't plan to. Just my own personal bias here. :-)
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Post by debkinnard on Jul 9, 2008 11:00:14 GMT -5
It is NOT a paying market for contributors. I subbed something to Michelle that will be used sometime in the fall.
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Post by cathikin on Jul 11, 2008 10:18:44 GMT -5
Okay, when I wrote my comment, I was unaware that there were three pages to this thread. I was responding to the first page, t his in particular:When I enquired of the Director whether she intended on starting to pay me for the posts I wrote for the cfba blog tours as her Assistant Director, she told me that I would have to sign a 'non-competition' agreement, meaning that I cannot create or conduct blog tours that occur at the same time as any CFBA blog tours. (The original FIRST would be an exception to this clause.) In other words, I would have to give up Teen FIRST and Non~FIRST. Until this point, I had not realized that she thought of me as her 'competition'. (Other things were said...and I chose to disassociate myself from the cfba altogether.) The 'non-competition' agreement bothers me. I didn't know this was a competition. Isn't the purpose of blog tours to reach as many people as possible with information about the book and author? I'm very naive, obviously, because I thought we were supposed to be on the same side, like, God's? Kind of reminds me of the churches in the area that try to woo certain members away from other churches rather than reaching out to the 90% of the unsaved and unchurched around them.
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Post by cathikin on Jul 11, 2008 10:34:55 GMT -5
Hey, how do you guys get the cool boxes when you quote someone? All I could figure out was the indent.
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Post by Frank Creed on Jul 11, 2008 17:13:02 GMT -5
Cathi,
With your cursor, highlight the text to be quoted. On the second row of buttons up there ^ is an "insert quote" button, click it and it will automatically box the text.
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Post by Caprice on Jul 13, 2008 21:16:53 GMT -5
Those buttons don't appear with "quick reply". Try the regular reply or the standalone quote button which appears just a little up and to the right of the post you want to quote. When you hit that button, it opens up a regular reply and the entire post is quoted. You can erase whatever part you don't want to quote. That gives you the kind of box with the quotation's author cited, like so: With your cursor, highlight the text to be quoted. On the second row of buttons up there ^ is an "insert quote" button, click it and it will automatically box the text. If all else fails, you can use their funky almost-html commands to do it. Use the square parentheses [] instead of the carats<>. I'm using carats so you will be able to see it. <quote>This is what I want to be in a box.</quote> and then you get the box with no attribution.
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