Re: Off topic - Michigan Gardens for tour

**"* P* <r*@comcast.net>**

Are there any Michigan garden writers that have a private garden 
you would be willing to share with 50 Master Gardeners from 
Oakland County?

OR...do you know of any public or private gardens, growers or 
great nurseries in the lower peninsula that would be great to visit?

I am leading a group through Michigan next spring or summer.  
We have visited Fernwood.  Would like to include Dow and Meijer 
gardens if we can manage it.

Please send your ideas to RSBirdy@comcast.net

Thanks,
Sandie Parrott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bbmackey" <bbmackey@prodigy.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] selling your book

> As an author and an independent publisher, I sell books online in several
> ways. My publishing biz is fairly small and every book sale helps.
> 
> The books I publish are all in the Amazon.com Advantage program, which is
> for publishers only. They require that you give them a huge discount, but
> sales are very good there and all I have to do is send Amazon boxes of books
> from time to time. It is a consignment system. My wholesaler, Great Outdoors
> Publishing, sells books from their site, and some of the books are carried
> by retailers such as Powell's and Barnes and Noble. All these book sales
> involve my giving the resellers a big discount. I have general links to
> Amazon and Great Outdoors on my site, but not where I list the books. Many
> people have more trust in Amazon than in me, not surprisingly.
> 
> I also sell books directly from my website, with users paying with PayPal. I
> see that Ellen Zachos is doing this too for her CD and book. These books are
> selling at full price, whether they are books which I wrote for another
> publisher and am selling here, or they are the books by other authors which
> I publish. I don't have all that much traffic at my website but it is
> increasing all the time. There are sales often enough to keep me interested.
> To help attract people to the website I have one page that gives free,
> complete instructions on a quick way to make a trough, plus other useful
> tips and info. Recently Marge Talt let me put up a nice email she wrote to
> the list about making a new garden after a move to a home with an old one.
> (Thanks, Marge!)
> 
> There is yet another way to sell books online through Amazon.com. Every book
> listing has a click-through button that says, "I have one to sell." I use it
> to sell damaged books that I publish, carefully describing the scuff marks
> or whatever it is that is wrong. Often I receive more for a dented copy here
> than I get after giving the normal discount to Amazon for the Advantage
> program for a perfect copy. But the books must be handled one by one. I do
> not sell my perfect books here in the "I have one to sell" area because I
> don't think it is good for my image. Should I rethink this?
> 
> Back in 1991 I was the lead author for the Macmillan book, "The Gardener's
> Home Companion." It has been through multiple printings and three different
> editions. It is very expensive for me to buy copies of my own book. Same
> with my other big publisher book, "Cutting Gardens." When I need books for
> talks I sometimes buy them from Amazon through the "I have one to sell"
> area, for just a few dollars apiece! There are just thousands of them
> floating around out there.
> 
> My next adventure will be with Print on Demand (POD), which involves the
> printer printing and shipping the books to the customers, whether wholesale
> or retail, and sending me reports and checks. No warehousing or shipping for
> me to do.  I'll keep you posted once I get a POD title out there, sometime
> this year.
> 
> For more info on POD, check out www.BookSurge.com .
> 
> With best wishes,
> Betty
> 
> Betty Mackey, Publisher
> B. B. Mackey Books
> P. O. Box 475
> Wayne, PA 19087
> bbmackey@prodigy.net
> www.mackeybooks.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marty Wingate" <martywin@earthlink.net>
> 
> > This question is for authors who have their own Web sites.
> >
> > Do you sell your own books on your Web site?  Do you provide a link to
> > an online bookseller?  Or do you provide information about your books
> > (perhaps the cover and a blurb) and encourage visitors to your site to
> > go out and buy the books elsewhere?
> 
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