Private Label Books and Internet Success
Since the earliest days of the internet, books and other publications have been among the hottest sellers, and some of the best known internet businesses have gotten their start selling books. Books and publications remain a cornerstone of some of the most successful web based businesses o this day.Of course the business of selling books is not always an easy one, and few of us have the talent it takes to create our own top selling books. Even if we did, the time it takes to create, write and format content into useful books can thin the profit margins and leave little left over for investment.d alert us to the fact that we had written something completely ludicrous.

Until someone does invent such a program, and since my sister isn't always around to keep me informed of my unintentional humor, I must rely on my own knowledge of grammatical terms and the correct way in which they should be used to form a unit of thought capable of being used as an utterance.

Ignorance is NOT a virtue. I decided that a book on correct grammar usage might work to my advantage so I purchased the book, Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, written by Harry Shaw and published by Harper & Row. The book is an excellent guide to correct word usage, sentence structure and punctuation. Until I began studying the book, I didn't realize how much I have forgotten of what I once thou

Recently I began corresponding with a fellow writer whose work I greatly admire. I decided to send my new friend some photographs of my home town. I made two copies of the letter and placed one in my files. I stuffed the other in an envelope along with the photographs and ran to catch the postman, just as he was leaving my front door.

Several days later, my sister came for a visit. While I was showing her some of my latest work, she came across the copy of that same letter in my files. She read it, then fell back into her chair, overcome with laughter.

"What is so funny?" I demanded to know.

"This," she choked, pointing to the last paragraph in the letter. "How did you manage to mail two lakes clear across the countryside?"

My sister is not an inconsiderate person, nor is she intentionally vicious, she is simply blessed (or cursed) with a very keen sense of humor. When she finds something funny, she will break out into gales of laughter no matter the consequences. I could certainly understand her mirth when I read the sentence she pointed out, although my laughter was tinged with embarrassment.

The sentence read: "I am enclosing a few photographs of our beautiful Blue Ridge mountains, and a couple of our area lakes."

Had I truly written such a sentence? Much to my chagrin, I knew that not only had I written it, but in failing to proof read the letter I had actually mailed the humiliating error to my new friend.

In retrospect, it was clear that my first mistake had been the haste in which I had mailed the letter. The second mistake screamed at me from the page. The sentence was clearly suffering from incorrect parallel structure as well as from chronically misplaced comma syndrome. Such a poorly constructed sentence would cause my former English professor to turn over in his rocking chair.

An error of this magnitude could be quite expensive as well, should it fall into the hands of a magazine editor. I shudder to think of the consequences of such a sentence appearing in a cover letter accompanying one of my manuscripts.

For example, suppose I had written a fabulous article on the opening of the special-needs day care center in my area. And suppose I wrote the following sentence in a cover letter to the editor:

"I am prepared to supply a couple of photographs of the Rainbow Day Care Center, and several of the children who are enrolled."

Imagine the look of horror on the poor editor's face at the prospect of several children from a day care center being deposited on her doorsteps. Not only would I blow this sale, I would probably make a mortal enemy of this editor as well. Without a doubt, the article would be returned unread, possibly with a note attached informing me that the magazine was closed to further submissions.

To err is human...and very, very humiliating. In this age of technology, why doesn't someone invent a piece of software with a sense of humor, preferably like that of my sister? A software program that would scan our finished documents and search for any humor in the content. If we happen to be writing a serious piece of literature and the software were to giggle out of sync, then this would alert us to the fact that we had written something completely ludicrous.

Until someone does invent such a program, and since my sister isn't always around to keep me informed of my unintentional humor, I must rely on my own knowledge of grammatical terms and the correct way in which they should be used to form a unit of thought capable of being used as an utterance.

Ignorance is NOT a virtue. I decided that a book on correct grammar usage might work to my advantage so I purchased the book, Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, written by Harry Shaw and published by Harper & Row. The book is an excellent guide to correct word usage, sentence structure and punctuation. Until I began studying the book, I didn't realize how much I have forgotten of what I once thou

ntentionally vicious, she is simply blessed (or cursed) with a very keen sense of humor. When she finds something funny, she will break out into gales of laughter no matter the consequences. I could certainly understand her mirth when I read the sentence she pointed out, although my laughter was tinged with embarrassment.

The sentence read: "I am enclosing a few photographs of our beautiful Blue Ridge mountains, and a couple of our area lakes."

Had I truly written such a sentence? Much to my chagrin, I knew that not only had I written it, but in failing to proof read the letter I had actually mailed the humiliating error to my new friend.

In retrospect, it was clear that my first mistake had been the haste in which I had mailed the letter. The second mistake screamed at me from the page. The sentence was clearly suffering from incorrect parallel structure as well as from chronically misplaced comma syndrome. Such a poorly constructed sentence would cause my former English professor to turn over in his rocking chair.

An error of this magnitude could be quite expensive as well, should it fall into the hands of a magazine editor. I shudder to think of the consequences of such a sentence appearing in a cover letter accompanying one of my manuscripts.

For example, suppose I had written a fabulous article on the opening of the special-needs day care center in my area. And suppose I wrote the following sentence in a cover letter to the editor:

"I am prepared to supply a couple of photographs of the Rainbow Day Care Center, and several of the children who are enrolled."

Imagine the look of horror on the poor editor's face at the prospect of several children from a day care center being deposited on her doorsteps. Not only would I blow this sale, I would probably make a mortal enemy of this editor as well. Without a doubt, the article would be returned unread, possibly with a note attached informing me that the magazine was closed to further submissions.

To err is human...and very, very humiliating. In this age of technology, why doesn't someone invent a piece of software with a sense of humor, preferably like that of my sister? A software program that would scan our finished documents and search for any humor in the content. If we happen to be writing a serious piece of literature and the software were to giggle out of sync, then this would alert us to the fact that we had written something completely ludicrous.

Until someone does invent such a program, and since my sister isn't always around to keep me informed of my unintentional humor, I must rely on my own knowledge of grammatical terms and the correct way in which they should be used to form a unit of thought capable of being used as an utterance.

Ignorance is NOT a virtue. I decided that a book on correct grammar usage might work to my advantage so I purchased the book, Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, written by Harry Shaw and published by Harper & Row. The book is an excellent guide to correct word usage, sentence structure and punctuation. Until I began studying the book, I didn't realize how much I have forgotten of what I once thou

om the page. The sentence was clearly suffering from incorrect parallel structure as well as from chronically misplaced comma syndrome. Such a poorly constructed sentence would cause my former English professor to turn over in his rocking chair.

An error of this magnitude could be quite expensive as well, should it fall into the hands of a magazine editor. I shudder to think of the consequences of such a sentence appearing in a cover letter accompanying one of my manuscripts.

For example, suppose I had written a fabulous article on the opening of the special-needs day care center in my area. And suppose I wrote the following sentence in a cover letter to the editor:

"I am prepared to supply a couple of photographs of the Rainbow Day Care Center, and several of the children who are enrolled."

Imagine the look of horror on the poor editor's face at the prospect of several children from a day care center being deposited on her doorsteps. Not only would I blow this sale, I would probably make a mortal enemy of this editor as well. Without a doubt, the article would be returned unread, possibly with a note attached informing me that the magazine was closed to further submissions.

To err is human...and very, very humiliating. In this age of technology, why doesn't someone invent a piece of software with a sense of humor, preferably like that of my sister? A software program that would scan our finished documents and search for any humor in the content. If we happen to be writing a serious piece of literature and the software were to giggle out of sync, then this would alert us to the fact that we had written something completely ludicrous.

Until someone does invent such a program, and since my sister isn't always around to keep me informed of my unintentional humor, I must rely on my own knowledge of grammatical terms and the correct way in which they should be used to form a unit of thought capable of being used as an utterance.

Ignorance is NOT a virtue. I decided that a book on correct grammar usage might work to my advantage so I purchased the book, Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, written by Harry Shaw and published by Harper & Row. The book is an excellent guide to correct word usage, sentence structure and punctuation. Until I began studying the book, I didn't realize how much I have forgotten of what I once thou

enrolled."

Imagine the look of horror on the poor editor's face at the prospect of several children from a day care center being deposited on her doorsteps. Not only would I blow this sale, I would probably make a mortal enemy of this editor as well. Without a doubt, the article would be returned unread, possibly with a note attached informing me that the magazine was closed to further submissions.

To err is human...and very, very humiliating. In this age of technology, why doesn't someone invent a piece of software with a sense of humor, preferably like that of my sister? A software program that would scan our finished documents and search for any humor in the content. If we happen to be writing a serious piece of literature and the software were to giggle out of sync, then this would alert us to the fact that we had written something completely ludicrous.

Until someone does invent such a program, and since my sister isn't always around to keep me informed of my unintentional humor, I must rely on my own knowledge of grammatical terms and the correct way in which they should be used to form a unit of thought capable of being used as an utterance.

Ignorance is NOT a virtue. I decided that a book on correct grammar usage might work to my advantage so I purchased the book, Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, written by Harry Shaw and published by Harper & Row. The book is an excellent guide to correct word usage, sentence structure and punctuation. Until I began studying the book, I didn't realize how much I have forgotten of what I once thou

d alert us to the fact that we had written something completely ludicrous.

Until someone does invent such a program, and since my sister isn't always around to keep me informed of my unintentional humor, I must rely on my own knowledge of grammatical terms and the correct way in which they should be used to form a unit of thought capable of being used as an utterance.

Ignorance is NOT a virtue. I decided that a book on correct grammar usage might work to my advantage so I purchased the book, Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them, written by Harry Shaw and published by Harper & Row. The book is an excellent guide to correct word usage, sentence structure and punctuation. Until I began studying the book, I didn't realize how much I have forgotten of what I once thought I knew. I keep the book handy and refer to it often. I have found it to be worth its weight in acceptance letters.

I have also developed the habit of proofreading everything I write, from my grocery list to my daily entries in my journal.

Of course I posted another letter to my writer friend, apologizing for my critical error in the previous letter. I also informed him that I trusted he didn't drown when he opened the envelope and the two lakes poured out. We had a good laugh and all was forgiven and forgotten.

Friends can afford to laugh at their mistakes. Editors do not have the time to appreciate the humor in a senseless sentence. Such carelessness can mean the difference between a rejection slip and a deposit slip.

And as every writer knows, rejection slips do not feed us nor do they make us laugh.