Posts by Emma Hart
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Actually, the main problem with happily objectifying NZ sportspeople is the likelihood that they'll turn up teaching your kids or related to someone you know.
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And you know, I rant on all the time about sexualising athletes (not that I'm accusing anyone of that, you understand), but I am pretty much ready to give that up as a lost cause. Especially as I am a hypocrite on the matter.
There's an old tweet of Jo's I have favourited on this matter:
Really must stop objectifying women. Stupid hot women.
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I actually struggle tweeting during a game, it takes away from the swearing and pacing up and down.
Yeah, at one point I found myself thinking, please somebody, call a time out... My partner said, "I should just be tweeting what you're saying," and when I looked at him blankly, repeated something I'd just said about Anna Scarlett in such a way that I had to punch him in the thigh.
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Um, that would be Wimmins. We is wimmins.
I'd actually rather be called a 'lady', and that's saying something.
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Y'know, there was a bunch of other things I was going to say, but it all fell out of my head at this:
Lastly, I have something to say about the person who can find nothing to contribute to this debate but instead talks about 'knife-wielding' against me (safely repudiable as some sort of 'joke', and sent from behind a cloak of anonymity, of course). How long would it take her to mount a protest if I made such sexist, violent threats towards her, I wonder?
Srsly, dude, WTF? Do you mean Danielle, whose cloak of anonymity is her REAL NAME? And who said she would be 'stabby', not she would stab you and even if she had, how would that be sexist?
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His workmates suggested a picture of you in your underwear for the cover ?
No no, that might be construed as a bit pervy. They pored over multiple pictures of me in my underwear, debated the merits of photoshopping out particular freckles and moles and the placement of the title box.
The last time he was referred to as 'Haywood' would have been around 1985 when the roll was called I think.
I call him Haywood quite a bit. He calls me Emma Hart. It's like we went to English boarding school together in the thirties.
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I understood that the reason for publishers was that they could spread the cost over a larger printrun, allowing books to be more reasonably priced.
Yes, the larger the run you order the cheaper the print price per copy, to quite a degree. Which is kind of interesting, because nobody is actually setting type to print books any more, so the labour involved in setting up each print run, while not negligible, is much less than it used to be.
With sites like CafePress (I don't know Lulu so well, when we looked at them for Bardic Web their book quality was so poor they weren't worth considering, but that was years ago), they set a basic book price (which changes with the number of pages), and then whatever you make your markup over that is your portion of the sale price. And then you guys have to pay international postage on top of that. So if you look at the Bardic Web CafePress store, the markup on those books, the portion that goes to the site, is only a couple of bucks, because we use it mostly as a service for our members. So trying to make any kind of living out of that makes the books themselves prohibitively expensive.
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If I had a vagina I would be disappointed someone is trying to scare me with it.
I now have a mental picture of someone hiding behind a door sniggering with a six foot tall vagina, waiting to jump out at Jeremy.
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Mike: I've spoken to David on this topic many times and I can assure you, his problem is not so much with the share of the cover price that goes to the publisher as the share that goes to the retailer. Also, let me assure you, I've met few people in my life less "bleaty" than Haywood.
Part of the idea, and the way we already operate through PA Books is to try to eliminate as many of those costs you're talking about as possible by re-examining the process. See: pressing charges, MP3s, Whitcoulls charging more for an ebook than a print book. I do the warehousing, distribution, packing, posting and customer servicing for my book myself, David does it for his. (Ngaire's point about NZPost's size regulations is bang on and not at all a consideration in the spine thickness of any PA book, honest.)
For Graeme's and my books, it's been like working with a co-operative. I got a friend of mine to do copy-editing, David did technical editing for me (fcking LaTex markups, etc), cover design amusingly extended to a large cabal of my partner's workmates, David put together the catalogue that goes to bookshops and taught me his precision engineered system for packing books. We were brilliantly able to use existing PA channels for marketing that wouldn't have been available to other people.
What's frustrating is the frequency of talking to people who won't buy books on line. I can understand the visceral need to hold and fondle a book before they buy it, believe me. But listening to people say, "But I went into Whitcoulls and your books wasn't there [so basically I'm not going to buy it and I'm not entirely sure it's real]" is kind of... yeah.
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I can recommend Dr Dickinson's book as the best one that I've ever seen.
Filed neatly there under Books>>Science>>Biology>>Marine Biology... Something about that seems a little... No. Obvious pun is obvious.