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entertainment New authors warned of vanity press faults By STEPHEN GALER Of The Examiner Paul Tuz has plenty of horror stories to tell about fraudulent vanity publishers stories about writers who invest $5000 or $10000 in book that nobody wants and that the publishers have no intention of promoting Tuz is president of the Toron to Better Business Bureau The examples of vanity press deception he tells dont end with unsold books he knows of writers cheated by printers who simply photograph man uscripts complete with pencill ed corrections to produce cheap books that cant be sold Vanity presses are the soft underbelly of the publishing world They charge money to print books and any wouldAbe writer who approaches vanity press with hopes of fame and fortune should be aware of the pitfalls lot of hopeful writers sub mit manuscripts to vanity presses with dollar signs in their eyes says Tuz Then they get call from the publisher saying their work is unique and shows teinendous talent but cant be published Huck story being shot in Canada VANCOUVER li Mis sissippi catfish sauerkraut and heavy dollop of maple syrup is the recipe for new tele vision series being filmed here The story is popular Amtii can classic the fniancing West ierman and the cast and crew mainlyanadian Huckleberry 1mm and His Friends is an amalgamation of Mark Twains two bestrknown novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry llnn Behind the series are veteran Hollywood producer Robert Stabter and executive producer Tom Wagner of Frankfurt The 20 week series has been sold in West lermany and ne gotiations are under way for sale to Englishspeaking marr kets anada was the location choiie for several reasons The producers say the settings are remarkably similar to the Mis sissippi states and the price is right Although they arent dis closing the cost of production they say it would be too ex pensive to film in the linited States SIUVIISINHSINi lltllWlll England ttli lean loans has complained that her electric stove is ser ving up hot music along with hot meals The BBC says its probany because she is close to their transmitter but adds that theres nothing they can do about it Ill IV HOT WATER lttthlAY England Itll lill Barber 13 wants her meces Labrador retriever to start retrieving The pup made off with her false teeth and she hasnt been able to discoyer where the booty is buried gt USED DOORS We Buy Sell and Trade New landUsed Books ADAM BOOKS Inc 14 owing st because theyre not wellknown writers The publisher says the work is too good to return however and suggests the writer invest his money in get ting the book printed EGO This appeals to the writers ego The publisher tells him the chances are good that the book will catch on So the writer in vests his money and the book gets printed But as Tuz points out if the publisher isnt willing to distribute find promote the book the writer may be stuck with 1500 copies of book he cant possibly sell Anyone dealing with vanity publisher should clearly understand what commitment the publisher is making when he prints the book The writer should also make certain potential market exists for his book If youve written book of interest to everyone stay aware from vanity presses says Tuz If its good the regular publishers will take it it its not good printing it wont make it better If the book has localized interest say family history writer may perhaps go to vanity printer But its impor tant to get competitive bids Any writer dealing with vani ty printer should do so with his eyes open realizing full well what hes getting into luz warns of printers who are straight ripoff These are just printing houses who persuade people to put money into book that cant be sold TORONTO FIR Initiative Publishing House is Toronto firm thats been in the vanity publishing business for the past two years The WEST ST 3266542 from the Pmdm er of old Overt company has solid 1A rating with the Better Business Bureau and describes itself as cooperative subsidy publisher We provide an alternative to the big publishers says Allan Martin editorial director of the company Its tough to break into the field lot of people who come to us have been published by other firms now they have book that isnt com mercial but they want to bring itoutwesaywelldoit Initiative charges set price starting at about $500 for small book of poetry for first printing of 1500 COPKS They pay royalties of 40 per cent If the book sells 1500 copies the writer will break even on his investment if it sells fewer copies hell lose money initiative will keep the book in print if it passes the breakeven point in sales even if the book is only selling 35 copies year 25 TITLES Martin says his firm publishes everything from poetry to history books This year the company will publish about 25 titles We help people who have been ignored by trade publishers says Martin It costs those publishers $50000 to publish book We do it for one eight or onetenth that price with comparable quality We dont have high overhead because we dont have lavish offices or lot of editorial assistants Martin says his firm will promote the books it publishes Well advertise book across the country put ads in magazines like Books in Canada and set up autograph parties Nanaml Impminx ANIMAL HOUSE BILL MURRAY A150 ALL MALE DAG TICKETS MUST ENDORSED mo T0 FIBENTAYION AT 00 OFFICE EVERY SUM sap fisfi Hot tune An unidentified Italian girl holds the recording Woiytla Disco Dance one of Italys best selling discs Officials at The Vatican prefer not to talk about it AP Photo Musician interprets WINNIPEG CPI Folk singer Peggy Seeger says she approaches the subject of womens rights as musical journalist When wrote song on bat tered wives went and inter viewed battered wives The two songs Ive written on that sub ject seem to move people and theyre both based on the testia mony of the two women theyre about Theyre not sensational songs Theyre so full of corn monplaces that fantastic number of men and women can identify the feelings and actions involved Scegers collection of eight or nine womens songs covers lot of territory rape employ ment problems housewives and marriage In her songs she tries to present the things we are sup posed to know all about like what happens to womans le gal status when she marries or what happens when she has four kids is pregnant with fifth and wants to get rid of it It might be expected that the womens movement would sup port Seeger ardently But the singer interviewed recently at the Winnipeg Folk Festival said this isnt the case MOVEMENT STRANGE The womens movement is very strange The songs are written on what they them selves avow are the main is sues But when the record came out they paid little attention to it When asked why that was they said its all things we know about CHARLEY PRIDE arrives by helicopter at ROCK HILL PARK 15 miles west of Alliston on SUNDAY JULY 22nd Two Shows 200 pm and 600 pm With the Pridesmen also Eddie 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ballads and soft rock The new album confirms the earliest verdicts of much of North Americas pop pss The sevenman unit of which only By MICHAEL TAWSON The Canadian Press Anyone who labelled the Cooper Brothers countryrock ba after the release of their debut album last year will likely reassess his thinking after hearing the new Coopers tune similar in style and with the same commercial potential as Rock Roll Cowboys But from there the musical temper ment branches out OnilliA TIIEATRES evolved into highly diciplined music machine Pitfalls of the Ballroom opens with Last One Fast One album Pitfalls of the two members are brothers has 213 Ballroom valoru Not that the earlier assess ment was invalid The Ottawa based unit did display par ticular flair for country flavored pop best represented by their first single Rock Roll Cowboys But on Pitfalls the Cooper Brothers have transcended any hardandfast labels And to tie them down to any one would be to shortchange one of Canadas most 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