A PUBLISHER BY ANY OTHER NAME

Hello Everyone:

Dorrance Publishing has eliminated itself from the opportunity to publish --- The Human Mind book. While it prefers to call itself a Subsidy press in reality it is a Vanity Press.   

If the book that it is publishing fails, then they make a substantial profit.  If it succeeds, they make even more money by severely and unfairly restricting the author's chances to make a decent return from his or her own creation.

While I thought that someone at Dorrance must have seen some value in the book,  by Mary Ferragonio's words, they are not allowed to look at ones blog which is the only way they could see my manuscript.  

If Mary's information is correct than that means that they simply offered to publish it because I asked about getting it published.   I want someone who has read the book and understands why it is so valuable. 

Mr. Bill Berger at Dorrance has apparently read some of, or perhaps all of the book.   Otherwise he would not have suggested that I read a book entitled -------- and written by one of Dorrance's other successful authors.

Unfortunately the text of that book was so small that I could not read it. I suspect that a phenomena which I write about in my book probably applies to this story.   I call it the two fears colliding theory.

The one fear was of death itself and the other was becoming a leader or some one in authority.  Usually a person goes through one of the fears, usually the lesser of the two.  

In that case the lesser of the two would obviously be stepping up to a leadership role.   It is important to realize that there is no destiny involved here.  There is no success that was written in the stars.

She survived and is here to tell us about it.  Others faced this same kind of double fear but they either didn't survive, or if they did, they chose for one reason or the other not to write a book about it.   So in effect, these last couple of paragraphs represent my thanks to Bill Berger for his response to my book.