June 2003

(if you drop in here straight, you need to read the previous parts first to get the whole picture. Start reading with Poetry scam(s), Part I.)

It's been a bit quiet on the poetry.com front. I did get a lot of reactions from a lot of people about the info here. Mostly positive and thanking for the information. I'm glad I could be of help and hope that this indeed will lead to something.

In the meantime I would like to share something else with you *grins* A lot of people will probably get an instant, strongly vibrating déjà-vu:



It's probably not necessary to explain what this is, but for the people who are "new" at this, I'll do it just the same. It's the artist's proof that you get from poetry.com and which you, as the poet, have to check for typo's and everything and it serves as your permission for poetry.com to publish your poem in the mentioned anthology.
There's a whole pile of papers in that same envelope, all promoting poetry.com and their anthologies and complimenting you with your excellent poetic achievements. And also in MY envelope, and since I'm One of the Distinguished Few it couldn't have been in many other envelopes (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah, RIGHT!), there was the following little paper:



And there was also a little piece of paper with FAQs about them. I read it through and found read there that, I quote: "You can order any of our publications from all major retail bookstores and online booksellers (order using ISBN number)."
I've mentioned this before already; I tried ordering their Passionate Sky from the two ummm... how shall I put it... majorest retail bookstores in Finland without any luck. When I was in Holland I tried through a couple of retail bookstores there, also without any luck.
And guess what? I tried at Amazon.com. THERE they do have it.
Now we can be either very happy or just see it as some kind of decoy... Some kind of little twitch, because they had to do SOMEthing... I prefer the latter one, because when I tried Amazon.co.uk there wasn't any match. I tried BookSense.com; no match. BarnesandNoble.com didn't find a match either.
You know what the funny thing is? If you put the ISBN number in search at Amazon.com you don't get the anthology that should come with the ISBN number. You DO get some sites that warn for a scam *grins* And you come across a number of personal pages of people who stated that their poetry got published in this and that anthology.

Owwell... What can I say more?

TO BE CONTINUED!
Continue with Poetry scam(s), Part XIII.