As 2009 comes to a close we wanted to celebrate by bringing you a week’s worth of your favorite articles that we’re run on Publishing Perspectives. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, with our next new feature. In the meantime, enjoy the best of ‘09 and check our news blog for updates and analysis.
Today, M.J. Rose discusses how increased marketing and promotion demands on authors necessitates a change in the way authors get paid. Following Rose’s article, publisher Bob Miller, founder of HarperStudio, responded in a separate article, which is also reprinted below.
Editorial by M.J. Rose
Shout it from the rooftops, or better yet, hashtag it on Twitter. It’s time to turn the page on how authors get paid.
Times have changed, and with them, every aspect of the publishing landscape is morphing. And from my vantage point, nowhere is it changing more than in marketing. Authors aren’t waiting and watching to see what publishers aren’t doing for their books — they are jumping in feet first and months ahead of their houses to make sure there’s a serious marketing and publicity effort.
And publishers aren’t gnashing their teeth over the author’s involvement anymore — they are encouraging it. Co-op is more costly than ever and eating up marketing dollars. In almost all cases, publishers are making it clear that they expect authors to supplement their marketing/PR effort in various ways and, in some cases, even soliciting the author’s help with both time and yes, money.
As a result, today the author’s marketing/PR effort is often equal to or even greater than what the house is doing.
The good news is it works. No wonder really — people do buy more of something when they know it exists, and in general, book marketing is so low-key that people don’t know what books are even out there. I have dozens of case histories of authors who have pushed their sales into reprints when none were expected, created enough velocity to generate free co-op when none was anticipated, and achieve bestseller listings when none were dreamed of.
But whenever there’s good news…
We now have a situation where publishers are financially benefiting from the author’s efforts but the author is still getting paid the old way, without regard to how much we personally invest.
There’s just no consideration for the checks we’re writing out of our own pockets for marketing or PR services.
Accordingly, it’s blatantly and patently unfair for us to invest in our own books and then wait for our advances to earn out based on the same royalties rates we’ve always gotten.
Be it $2,000 or $20,000, the money we invest should be discounted from the advances we’re paid, allowing us to earn royalties faster based on an honest up-front expenditure by the publisher.
And, it goes without saying, we should be be getting a higher royalty rate. After all, we’re doing more than writing our books, we’re business partners as well.
Times have changed since 1999 when I went to my first marketing meeting as a debut author. I’d been the creative director of a top NYC ad agency, and was startled by the paucity of the marketing budget the publisher presented. I’d known not to expect the millions I worked with at the agency, but I did expect a real ad budget. When I found out it wasn’t there, I offered to give my publisher back my advance if they would spend it on advertising.
The publishing team not only refused… they were horrified.
So was I.
I wanted to supplement their efforts to give my novel a better shot and they were turning down my money?
How times have changed. And how contracts now need to change.
Over the last ten years I’ve spoken out a lot about authors needing to get involved in more than just the writing of the book, and how we can benefit by investing in our books and becoming marketing partners with our publishers.
At first I was a pariah — publishers were aghast. Education can be a dangerous thing when it causes conflict and requires extra conversations and explanations.
By 2005 when I started AuthorBuzz.com (to offer authors and publishers viable and affordable marketing solutions) authors were still a little nervous about getting involved in marketing and often asked me how best to broach the subject with their publishers.
By 2007 that trepidation was gone. Publishers were welcoming the help.
And now, in 2009, publishers not only expect the author to do a certain amount of marketing, I now hear weekly from authors approached by their house asking if he or she wants to foot an ad bill or share some costs.
This pendulum has swung a bit further than I ever thought it would.
We should be involved in marketing and PR — in every aspect of our careers. And if we want to pay for extra marketing or publicity, as long as we do it right, it’s a smart investment. But it is not now and should never be our obligation. And if we are going to make these investments, publishers need to acknowledge that commitment. And not just with a nod and smile and a thanks.
“Because so many contracts don’t earn out,” publishers will argue, “the author makes far more than the we do — so why shouldn’t we ask them to invest? It’s their career, after all.”
The answer is: because it’s wrong. The system and the contracts were set up at a different time under different circumstances and set up in the publisher’s favor.
It used to be that the author wrote and the publisher published. Publishing meant everything from editing to distribution to marketing. Now, more and more books are not being published, but instead are merely being printed.
No one walks into a bookstore and says to the clerk — “I’d like to buy a book that I never heard of and that you never heard of.” Someone has to do the marketing and get the word out. And if that’s going to be a shared responsibility, so be it. We all have the same goal in the end.
But our contracts and the way we get paid can’t remain the same. It’s time to start a new chapter.
M.J. Rose is the bestselling author of several novels including, most recently, The Memoirist. She is also the founder of Authorbuzz.com and one of the founding board members of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Her next novel, The Hypnotist, will be published in May 2010.
READ: M.J. Rose’s blog about book marketing and other issues, “Buzz, Balls and Hype”
PERUSE: M.J. Rose’s personal web site, which features information about her various books.
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A Response: Re-thinking the Author/Publisher Partnership
By Robert Miller
Bob Miller is the President and Publisher of Harper Studio (photo credit: Adrian Kinloch)
NEW YORK: I’ve just read M.J. Rose’s editorial from last Friday, “Publishers Must Change the Way Authors Get Paid,” and I couldn’t agree more that it’s time to re-think the publisher/author relationship. M.J. deserves credit for moving this conversation forward; indeed, for years M.J. has shown by her own example how authors can and should be full partners in the marketing of their books. If anyone has earned the right to question author compensation, it’s M.J. Rose.
However, I don’t think that the solution is to have authors paid a higher royalty in exchange for their marketing efforts.
First of all, how would this be judged? What amount of marketing effort should be expected of the author before their royalty changes? Shouldn’t author and publisher alike be doing everything possible to make a book succeed, without needing to count up who has gone beyond the call of duty and who hasn’t and trying to calculate how that should translate into how they share the proceeds of their success? What if the author and the publisher have both made herculean marketing efforts, but the book has lost money? Should the author get a higher royalty, even as the publisher is taking a loss? (Similarly, I don’t see how publishers and authors would know how to apply the author’s marketing expenses to their advances, as M.J. suggests here.)
This approach reminds me of those group housing experiences we all had just after college, when inevitably the refrigerator would get divided up into separate grocery bags with cranky “this is mine, don’t eat it” notes on them. When that happens, the household stops being a fun place to live…and I don’t think it’s a good basis for sustainable publisher/author relationships, either.
I don’t think that this solution goes far enough. I believe that publishers and authors should be equal partners, sharing profits fifty-fifty, as we are doing in all of our deals at HarperStudio. The author brings their creative work to this partnership, and their commitment to do everything in their power to help their book succeed. The publisher brings their financial risk (under our model, the publisher puts up the publishing costs, including the advance to the author, from which the author can decide to help the marketing effort if they’d like, or not), their passion for the project, and their staff time (we don’t charge any overhead to the profit split; the authors don’t charge for their time spent marketing the book either).
This financial structure requires both parties to think responsibly about costs, since both parties will be charged for those costs at the end of the day. The result is that the relationship is much less adversarial.
The question each day is, “What should we be doing for this book?” not “What have you done for me lately?” It feels healthier to me.
So, M.J., got a book for HarperStudio? If so, we have a structure that I believe would reward you fairly for your impressive efforts, without turning us all into dueling accountants. The new chapter has begun.
Robert Miller is the president and publisher of HarperStudio, which he founded in 2008. The first books from this new imprint are published next month.
VISIT: The HarperStudio Web site.
FOLLOW: The HarperStudio blog, The 26th Story.
One Comment
I have a story, not based on false pretences nor misleading evidence…it is about Royalty and what they have done to a chidl they took at the age of 2 from the parents and adoptee’s..
It is really long and is sent under an e-mail address used for protection.. Followeing:
Lies about people having taken part in Diana’s death without proof of doing so. no proof of, and even if who were involved and how many people. With that , she threaten to kill have a person burn them in a home, with her sister in law, stabbed after, hung in England in front of a crowd, ran over with a car by someone who had been hired.
Lied about the person sharing their ideas with her and her country including England when that person stated since a younger age, not to want her nor her family or anything from the British Royalty in her life after their lies and troubles. ” We get what we want and do what we want to anyone”. Including talking, harassing steeling, abusing and lying about companies, ideas and the person’s national status. Greed for ideas, clothes and fabrics. Dresses and Jewelry.Including her other family from the states who had been meeting with other people involving them. The same ones from her home and personal pictures are the same one show had been causing trouble for other people with the ideas, preventing personal travels, living life where and with whom.
They are the ones who had been changing immigration documents from their few countrys, numerous times, either one country or the other , which should have meant not travells to desturb other peoples living arrangments. This should have also included her children and granchildren, inlaws, cousin, and husbands family.
false accusations about the Fyeds entering Dianas life because of other peoples hatred. The blames on a person or numerous people who had not been near them or near their personal appearances.
Her family members did fly a child on a plane into another country. Did leave the child with a sitter who was old, and they turned around and left the child walking around on the street.
They keep taking personal belongings, from people who were never planning on becoming Canadians or Spaniards nor English or British or a Spaniard. She and the Kennedys have travelled talking a personal belongings from Caribbean’s and people who travel to china. Only two places travelled to cause problems for bankcards and ideas in the states.
She assaulted a little kid in Charlottesville, lied and returned causing more problems in B.C.
After the kid returned back into Canada.Borrowing the child to use for their own personal use.. Especialy after making the child return back to their parents, numerous times, not the step family or the proper country where the child had originally been from since adoption..
Diana’s mother was talked into or tricked into exposing their personal affairs to other people in an old area by their neighbors.
Before they had been accusing of exposion from a child, when it wasn’t. Snakes, clothes and printing, they lied during this event.
Also lied about secret hormonal events.
Elizabeth’s sister had been making comments about taking care of a child after find out ideas had been loose in countries which did not involve England nor, British, and Spain.
NewZaland is where Margret and her sister started causing trouble and lying. Someone had been on a boat with the word from Egyptians. And I was the one they used it on and acted upon it. They lied, so I decided to let Margret stuff her face like a pig!Someone stupid kids were following them on a boat. knew something about ideas. Her sister said it was learning things about etiquette.The rest that started happening to them from there was for what they had been doing and blaming me for.
They never did explain about the snake in the basket or how I ended up in India and bitten by it when I was a baby. Her sister is the one who had flown with me on a plane somewhere else. She’s the one who’s responsible for the Indian interfering and causing problems with me. She’s the one whose ether paky lover. She’s the one who flew through their country. She’s the one who should know about the snake and skeletal structure in the Desert.
She’s the one who left me in British Columbia and lied, did I forget to mention all the sand that ended up in Kingston. They never explained how I ended up in south African when I was little either. They never explained to Tshira’s mother why one of them thought Diana was prescious enough to shove needles into a child’s palms. Diana was the one who got greedy, nails done. Clean Ped’s.She was the same one who had been sitting near the pins, and had touched it on her own, but the put the blame on a kid, lying about intuitions,” they were placed there purposely, which means you wanted it to happen to her”..
New Ideas. She’s the same one who had made a comment and turned around with her family and became users.Them and a woman from the kenedys’ home where Maria Shriver had been living. This “thing”, liar. Is the one who had been travelling back and forth from china. With Diana Ross and her daughters.Having bonfires with snakes bighting people who had disease and getting them to bite those who didn’t. Especially the ones who entered the states for someones safety.The kenedys are also travellors who had made their promises to hand over personal items including bankcards from their hired assistances and secreataies. What ever complaications the Maria Shriver had with her family and in the states whil I had been visiting was not any problem of mine.. She had been the one to want to visit her country with, she had also been the one who ahd been living in the states, who had been travelling throught the states, had problems inside of a home in NewYork.People her father had introuduced other to, people from businesses with company who had been interested in opening, following Queen Beatrix and her mother.
The pair who had a “blackbaby” decided to send back the country which ahad been mexico, letting her return travelling around with for medical reasons, including the states, England and Germany. There had been half way visits meeting one travelling agent to another. From the broderline between Netherland to Montreal,back to British Columbia to spain for
Fabric Designs, skones, wheel chairs, plastic products, leggins, sweaters, jeans-multi-colores. French Rainbow story books. CBC, Family Channel, Y.TV,Sign language, printed books for the deff, Chocolate companys,Couches, Restaurants,Maxi, Grocery stores, Haircare, Constructions,Health Care-Bandages, Casts, shelters and Donations with the a female officer named St.Dennis , Mississauga Division who live in woodbridge area, Computers and programs, laptops, Logos,Nutrition Companys, Cars,Cimos, Washing Machines,Avon, Shavers, Deodarant,Nail Salons,Uniforms. Cookie Companys, Junk food, Chips. Hostess, and Nachos, Iatlian clothing, Puma, Sunglasses adn designer eyewear. Sears Company, and the Bay including Zellers. Someone from the head courts in canada had changed the dating which hudson bay stores opened, calling the idea and the store a canadian company , it wasn’t.
Clean lawn, lawn cutters, Fish Tanks, waterfalls placed inside of their shopping malls.Chinese movies…………………….. more..
There is numerous ones listed on the carebbean cruise including the court system in Montreal.
Their the one who caused” to travels to Mexico and other Country’s including Argentina.
Their the ones who cause Bernice to enter my life, everyone knows if I hate them then I’ve always hated Royalty.
It was there fault why a person got stabbed by a needle in B.C.
There the ones who turned around and made me travel into B.C with a lying officer. St. Dennis is the one who had taken the bankcards long enough for the ideas to enter Canada and screw me over with the money afterwards..
Her family is the same one who made comment to a baby claiming my family were the ones who had used me to get into Canada and to them!. and one of them pinched or poked me really hard on my right arm, called me stupid. Margrets the one who got angry in England where Diana’s brother was staying, yelling on the streets.
Her sisters the one who used a trance with the word “hello in French!.
Diana’s the one who made a racist comment bout black people in her family.” of all children you chose her”.
Their the ones who had been bothering me , she received dresses, she received pants. They followed me around for gum from the beginning.
Her mother is the one who told Beatrix to get me bitten by snakes.
Latiezias people were the ones who had chosen to get their look a likes and make fun of Margret’s family.
Taking away personal items from family members claiming to be a good person while using the ideas for her country , at the same time destroying the life of a person.
Refusing a person to travel to countries and taking away all personal items, claiming they shouldn’t receive it.
Lying bout assault and battery on a person while blackmailing them , claiming to give them anything and everything, while plotting to take them away in the end.
Their sister -in laws from their husbands claiming to be the mother of a child, the same child they played mind games with. The child who they’ve made travel numerous times empty handed. Putting the blame on some or that child when they’re the ones who travelled with them from the beginning. Taking away from other Royalty..
Persistent obsessions with other people for numerous things. Obsessions from one country to another, one person travels they follow. Their words were they could go where ever they want and do what ever, guess that means taking over other countries without a problem. They mess over other peoples lives, know they started numerous altercations, a number of family and relationship issues. Cause poverty to families, claiming or acting up help topics, without too much of a care in their minds, only for show!.
Tearing apart young couples with their daughters, causing deaths of their babies. Causing travelling miss-haps every time.
Why travel to a country for a person, turn around cause problems, blame the person for numerous thing happening to their family, knowing , their the ones who continue to travel.
Wanting a person to forget all horrible things, believing it would save them, or their reputations to others.”Who ever said forgetting was best, it should be forgetting Royalty that’s best”!.
Telling a person who they should spend time with, or who they should spend their lives with for greed!. Even interveaning with child hood relationships, including the one who wore the dressed from the same person they messed over.
Diana’s the one who broke down crying inside of a restaurant. Charles is the one who kicked a kid in her back.Their the one who let a kid walk around on the streets at night time. She’s the who told a lie about me being responsible for something when she knows she was the one who had other people travelling on the exact same boat also. Dianas the one who thought I would bne interested in someone who they knew from Royalty. Some boney black haired person who had liquid colored meds’ in bottles or viles.The spots where the comments started, relations ships and blackmailing,” you can have anything you want, just don’t turn us in, prove ideas”. They forgot not treating like shit!.
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One person told me if I wanted to get rid of them or anyone who had been causing problems to do it myself. It was Latiezia. I made complaints to almost all of them about Diana and her family. Mexican said,they would take care of her. The fyeds before that mentioned finding a way to help before she started dating their family member..
The woman entered my hospital room, sat next to me, looked at me in bed and said, I don’t deserve to live, ripped out my hospital tube.I never did anything to her. Nor her stupid family.
When I was younger their the one who tried killing a person in at a stable.Claiming somweone had slapped one of them on their ass and need to kill them for. That’s nothing compared to the drugs that they had been giving me.Nothing compared to the lies about what was really going on between Royalty and other people, the public.
Their the ones who wanted soo many ideas for their family, stupid.. She made me travell to a place where she had been stayng at a building for jewlry for her family members,a kid drawing jewlry for people she didn’t even know.
The samethings that happend around the time some people had broken into an apartment building and had been harassing children on the same floor.One got beatten and they decided to take the kid and bring somewhere where all troubles bropke loose.
Stalking, charges, jail cell, filled with strangers. Men who looked like the father of the baby. Alll became assaulters of the child..Letting the kid watch a beatting of a person who had been the stalker…
Vootmans cookies.
It’s no ones fault Diana made friends or asked people to do them favors, including the same ones who had been helping peope out..Who really know what they’ve done in their past or planned..
Travelled on a boat, princess cruises, noting but problems. One stupid man who had been working on and for metal kitchen supplies.Toasters, flat irons, sandwich machines, grills. A person who ran around pouring things into peoples drinks.Breaking into rooms,.Kidnappers.What happend with Margret and another people, when a person had tied a kid to a bed…kidnapped. Then their was the a line up for people who wanted their children to have a profession at a young age..Which included nothing but trouble. One woman who had been living at an estate and had guards.. The same gurads who had been taking advantage of children in the are. The same one who had a disease and had gotten beatten.. Drank “red stuff”, to kill. ( the father of the sender).
Then their was the Tyco” company and travellors who wouldn’t leave a kid alone. mobbs of people for ideas. Then their was the “Jam”.
There was the travelling with “Sarah”. There was the Arguements between the family..
There was the woman who turned a kid evil for her own protection, the same woman from Irland, the same woman who wanted to be the one to have a kid in her care and hidden.The same one who travelled to countrys for medical assistants. lungs After taking another persons baby in their care.The same ones who thought it would be interesting to take a kid to Egypt, or near India…
Then there the the crazy amison people, and the fungal problems, which she didn’t want to treat.On the skin, the home in the middle of nowhere with paraunas. She was looking for someone who had been using something on people, there was a woman from a bus who had that samething she wanted, they said they would share it…
she knows she made a person promise never to mention what happend inside of a building years years years ago, before “96″, before, 95″..
There was the death of a child planned years years before. by Egyptians!. The same ones who had been turning people against others running around manipulating, planning deaths and getting others to commit them. Round face, pale skin, black curly hair. The description only fits one Egyptian and an Italian. Both whom look alike. The ones who had made it to a boarder line in canada, the Egyptian Royalty who wanted children and couldn’t.The same ones who claimed to take care of a child, mentioning it had been a secret between them and another woman of England. These are the same ones who planned the death, claiming there had been too much planned, and known (Dont’ remember what their plan was).
The plan was to push someone out of a plane.One of he females looked like camilla. It was planned prior to the previous flight on the same plane. A woman who got angry and said how could u choose them over us.
This woman also looked like a the same one who had been living in the middle of nowhere. The eldest woman in her 40tys to give birth..The same one to fly away and her leave her baby behind..Who might have been working near an army base.
The angry one who looked like Beatrix, she also looked like the same person. They might have been the same ones from Ireland. The mother and daughter who wanted revenge for a baby urinating somewhere after being told by the queen it was okay, she’s a baby who needed to be changed.. She’s the one who had been walking with them.
The woman who had been living at a Royalstys secret get away. A woman who looked like one of the family members. Long Curly hair, small oval shaped face. Their secret of a descusion, prior years back. Something she didn’t want her family to know about.
Her look alike who had been travelling around the same area as her especially after she had left the kid wih an older couple in England.
The same woman who had been there to make comments about too many starches.Deserts, I say they had been sharing a one floor home with a neighbor who knew secrets. just as much as , their toilet clauging in spain.Maybe the same person who had been searching for their Royal Jewls.Woman related to a short person, they might have been cleaners who decided to have fun.She might have been the one from the hall way of a famous persons fathers death in early “90′s”.Diddy’s. He was taking advantage of people for their ideas and companys, thought he would tag along with the person who had the ideas. Turn around afterwards to get them killed..
The woman who got people bitten by snakes. First comment about it was, she had to bring a kid to awoman because something went wrong and didn’t know. It might have been using snake venum to prevent cancer. Stupid idea. or afraid of what would happen. Then the run in with a woman who had been planning on using children and people for experiments. The woman who thought it would be fun to inject people with different things including cells.White jelletan substance.
Their son who made a peson get bitten by a snake on their thigh, also the liar. Who claimed people had done something to their mother. Blamed one person when it could have been more than one, numerous at last 5 if not more or less. Depending on their descriptions. Blah Blah, garbage , we destroyed his mother and fathers happiness. Always about them, even when their the ones to blame.They’re the ones hwo had brought a persons kid elsewhere numerous times.
The people who they travelled with from years ago, the ones from near Newfoundland, that one woman and her sons or gransons from a cooking show.The kid who needed to to be taken care of medicaly.The one who needed the stomach pump, who got drugged.Somthing about a drowning in ireland the the people who had been victimising infront ot Royalty. Your queen was the one from the area who had the kid in her care around the same time and Argentina.. Or the fact that their had been an area where she had brought the child from the begining after taking her from the carebbean… This woman ran around with a baby…Might have even carried her on her back, tied fabric..
Jacksons are responsible for letting loose other peoples idea and causing problems,without admitting to them..Their words to them about ideas started it all.
There was a woman who had been in Indian who was obsessed with ideas , incluing clothing and movies for indian.The annoying woman who brought the kid to the country who wouldn’t bring the child home, caused nothing but trouble and tourment. It was the queen.
Something about her wanting things settled between trouble maker or something her daughter got blamed for in Argentina.
She’s the one who had a problem with couples no one else. Her problem was, having another person settle in her country, after she and her stupid people recieved ideas, used the person and had no intentions of giving them what was theres…What was wrong with the couple. Not the person who Diana expected or wanted and her family had introduced..Which leads them into steeling and taking advantage of black people.Can also lead to Racism, comments made, and not wanting black in their family. Can also lead to other people, steelers of bankcards, whomever, teachers, and officers for stero-typing.
Problem with other cultures and their ideas better yet, managing and becoming a shareholder of them, or property that’s rightfully theres..Envy, death assaults, lies from the steelers.
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Margrets sister in law, wanted someone dead and spread rumors in the states about it, she hired a man. The thing was someone who had been staying with them between netherland and the border, had been the one. It was a hug.
Beatrix’s mother was the one who had a child before British, R. She had bentravellinga round to countrys , claiming they had meetings and had been carrying a child with her. The thing was she wanted ideas just like Beatrix.They wanted to control the persons life with the ideas, using all comments and all troubles necessary.Along with that someones life had been ruend.Travels back and forth.Even all things that happend while being in their care.
Her mother was the one who wanted a little baby to become a trouble maker in canad and paris, cliaiming it would be fun if they did. Her words were ” lets make some trouble together”, hhhhhhmmmmm, what do you say , me and you can travel together.
They never wanted anyone to findout that they had been using a child to cause trouble, just like the queen.
To the kid, it seemed more like wanting the child to go through life with enemys.It was just that. One of them had made a comment with that exact passage behind it.
and another one who looked like the queen, stood on stage infront of a crowd, made a comment saying ” did mean to bring you hypacrits in life”. This comment was made before the child had been five years old. They had planned to destroy a persons life.
It was almost the same as living with them. Their same plans made in the presence of the child for someone else, the samething that had been planned for someone else.
There was the people who had been working for the ink travells, by a boat. This person had been living in Netherland where all problems started, Tea party that British, R mother attended, and left a child.She was the on who walked into a home after elaving, and someone had been trying something on her.
There was Margret who had been the one to take a child with her and travell. She recieved a phone, the person had been making prank calls. Later she was injured, her sister got angry and balemed the kid who they had been taking care of. No one told them to take her.They did it on their own. They shouldn’t balmed the person since they’re the ones who had been exposing the child to public. They wnated a kid to pay for something she did not understand. She didn’t even know what was happening, except , that someone had wanted them harmed and not sure who.
I know there is a female Doctor who looks like Margret, lives in the British Columbia are, who had been causing problems. She is one of the females who had people take money and cankcards away from a kid, while she had been living in another area. She too had a look a-like. That person had been someone from either greece of Columbia. Only difference between the two is their height. The same woman who had been wanting to try things on children, more like an experiment on their skin. Including, it was snake bites.She must have been drunk, she was running around the area. She thought it would be fun for people to have their skin stretched out. Something that Dianas mother had done and told someone else to do with beatrix for her mother.
There was a neighbor who had been living near her(Diana’s) mother who had taken ideas for a company, telling a kid he would destroy them and take the ideas for the “Wendys Restaurant” for his family. Saying no one has to know that he doesn’t have someone in his family with that name. Nor do they have to know where the idea came from. His name was Dave.Every idea thought of had been taken by this man. He wanted to get rid of the kid for the company, and his family to take over. He even wanted the people dead who knew about it. He didn’t want to hand over the idea’s on the paper and enighter did his neighbors or the person who had been living up the street from him.Then there was a female who had been living with them, she was interested in arts and logo’s.The same female who took advantage of ideas from other people claiming they could do what they want. I know for a fact, she took an idea for chocolate company, just like canada took “Hershey.”The Rose chocolates, including the other ones for movies Disney and three other movie companies.
She too took care of a kid that they all promised to take proper care of and didn’t!.She walks with a hunch in her back, oval shaped face, long curly black hair, really pale skin,Power Rangers. She too promised to hand over the money , so did Margret and the bankcards for the ideas, so did Beatrix, nether of them kept their word. but they continued returning for ideas and having other people steel drawings and designs from “black people” as if they belonged to them.
They even used and took ideas for buildings for latin countrys. I am a latin mix!
As for the fabrics, she made me work and share my ideas with a white person who was racist towards black people for being black and having big noses… This includes Old Navy. Your’r queen was racist just like the rest of them and is a liar, and a user, just like the rest of them.
Your Bristsh R’s words , from one person, was yur families in Canada.. meaning, I cared, no. her words mattered, no. She meant something, no.Should have , no. like them , no, like my family, could careless (it was her fault why black people entered my life (speaking of my own family), including Margret and Medetareneans.
Have I ever like Canada nope, do I care for the stupid counry, no, have I ever , no…. do I like you flag, no, ugly two toned colors, theres better, and their beautiful too.Government fundings are stupid, you country never stays clean enough, nothing but gredy selfish pigs… You money is ugly, and useless.. You legal systems is garbabge, your people area liars, including the white ones… Your steelers, Helpless,Useless.. Revenue Helpers don’t do much. Your systems is robbing other countrys, and you bareley help them with their problems… you steel health ideas for other countrys, you steel clothing ideas, you steel shelter ideas, groceries, you steel buisnsses, you steel, Emergency evacuation ideas , products, utilities, items, jackets, shoes, clothes, skin care.You steel Technologies, you steel restaurants..
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