I Am a Writer and Poet And....if I can be of any use to people in the writing department let me know. Here is a bit of my recent writing experience on the internet:
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SUMMARY OF RON PRICE’S INTERNET PUBLISHING
HIS CUP OF PUBLISHING TEA
Most of the following went onto the internet in the six year period: 2001-2007. Most of it is free of any cost, although some self-publishing, ebook material costs from $3 to $20 at lulu.com and eBookMall. But I do not post these internet sites here for the sake of making money. I have never had a great deal of interest in making money; perhaps that is one reason at the age when men retire in the west, 65, I have just enough to survive on. In the first three years in which my published works have been on the internet I have received an average eof 38 cents per annum. Fame and wealth I have little doubt will elude me before I step into the place there men speak no more and which we call death.
There are three general categories of printed matter I have placed on the world wide web since 2001. These categories include
1. Books:
1.1. The Emergence of a Baha’i Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White. This 400 page ebook is available at Juxta Publishing Limited and can be downloaded free of charge.
1.2. A paperback edition of the above book is available at Lulu.com for $11.48 plus shipping costs from the USA. This self-publishing site also has a four volume work, a study in autobiography, entitled Pioneering Over Four Epochs which is 2500 pages long. I will be making it available as an ebook and in paperback for $10 to $20 per volume very soon after it is reviewed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Australia, Inc. The charges are set by Lulu.com. Self-publishing, then, is one thing I do.
2. Internet Site Postings:
Many of my essays, poems and a myriad of different kinds of postings/writings in smaller, more manageable, chunks of an A-4 page or less in size--or a little more--are all free and can be accessed by simply: (a) going to any one of approximately 2000 sites on the WWW or (b) typing some specific words into the goggle(or one of many other) search engines as follows:
2.1 Approximately 2000 Sites:
I post at a wide range of poetry, literature, social science and humanities sites across a wide range of subjects, topics and intellectual disciplines in both popular and academic culture. The list of these sites(some 60 pages of them @30 sites per page) is available to anyone interested by writing to me at:
ronprice9@gmail.com. But a simpler method of accessing my postings is to:
2.2 Types of Sets of Words At Google:
There are literally hundreds of sets of words now that will access my writing at various sites. If you type, for example, Ron Price, followed by any one of the following words or word sequences: (i) poetry, (ii) literature, (iii) religion, (iv) Baha’i, (v) history, (vi) Shakespeare, (vii) ancient history, (viii) philosophy, (ix) Islam and (x) Australia Baha’i, et cetera et cetera you will get anywhere from a few sub-sites to over 300 sub-sites arranged in blocks of ten sites. The main problem with this way of accessing what I have written is that my work is side by side with dozens of items from other writers and posters who have the same name as mine, the same topic or some other key word that is the same. I have counted some 15 other Ron Prices. You may find their work more interesting. There are some wife bashers, car salesmen, evangelists, media celebrities, a pornographer or two, a fascinating array of chaps who have different things to flog, so to speak, than my offerings.
3. Specific Sites With Much Material:
Some sites have hundreds of pages of my writing and these sites are a sort of middle ground, a different ground, between the above two major categories. The Baha’i Academics Resource Library, for example, has more of my material than at any other site. My writings are listed there under: (a) books, (b) personal letters, (c) poetry, (d) biographies and (e) essays, among other categories/listings. The Roger White book is here under “Secondary Resource Material>Books>Item #114” as is a lengthy slice of my autobiography. I find this site useful personally, but some of the poetry is not arranged in a visually pleasing form--yet. Some readers may find the layout of my material at this site annoying.
There are some sites at which my writing is found in a very pleasing form with photos and pictures and general settings to catch the eye. Some site organizers have their location beautifully arranged. I leave it to readers to read what pleases them and leave what doesn’t.
Concluding Comments:
I had no idea when I retired from full-time employment in 1999, from part-time work in 2003 and from most volunteer work in 2005, to devote my time as much as possible to writing and promoting various causes that the internet would be as fertile a base for my offerings as it has become. There are literally millions of words that I have written and posted on this international web of words in the last seven years---since I stopped teaching in post-secondary education in Western Australia in the first week of April 1999.
From the early eighties to the early years of this new millennium I tried to get published in a hard cover or in a multitude of magazines and journals in the periodical press. But I had little to no success. My guess is that in the years ahead the world will be awash with books and postings from thousands/millions of people like me. What I write may not be your cup-of-tea. In that case drink someone else’s tea from someone else’s cup. But for those who may enjoy my writings, I hope the above is a useful outline. This posting certainly indicates what I do—and I leave this information with you for whatever purpose it as for anyone who is interested. I shall not be waiting for an avalanche of responses; even one would surprise me.
Ron Price
24 May2007