Publishing Contest Winners

2 Moon Press would like to announce the winners of their publishing contest. We had a contest where we selected four lucky winners of a fully paid for publishing package.

These students have written a myriad of interesting subjects, and we will be have a huge party for them, once we have their books done in the coming months.

The winners are as follows.

Allyson Hoffman - Marshall High School.

Elizabeth Kapinski - Marshall Academy.

Ian Bush - Harper Creek.

Morgan Elmer - Bellevue High School.

Dirty Business Of Internet Fraud

Yes internet schemes even hit book publishers! Recently we had an author contacted about an Australian company purchasing books from her, they wanted 300, so she gave it to us to handle. Well... The Australian company turned into a Cyprus company.

Obviously this raised our alarms, after many emails this "company" gave us credit card information complete with numbers, names, and even the Cvv codes for the cards for two individuals. We of course was asked to charge the cards, and then forward 800.00 dollars to THEIR "freight shipper" via Western Union...

Well, of course this is a scam, and we contacted the banks for the cards. Scary thing was they didnt care, didnt even care to take the information. Their Card holders are being scammed, and there was no venue to have the card stopped, blocked, I even asked the operators, if they could call the holders to let them know. Answer Nope!!!

So in the end we saw it for what it was, the Credit Card company doesn't care, and most likely these cards will be sent to someone else who WILL charge them... So we live in a society where fraud and duplicity is common, where the very banks consider the losses part of doing business.

In the end who loses..... Everyone.

2011 Is now here

Well the Holidays are officially over. The new year is here, so it is time to look to 2011 with a new and determined eye. A new year affords an interesting chance for everyone, no matter if you are an author or publisher. As a publisher our resolutions are simple to say.

Market our authors books more aggressivley.
Expand our services.
Look at our inadequacies, and make efforts to make them strengths.
Attend more events and trade shows.

Where will 2 Moon Press be on January 1st, 2012 is an interesting question? We are determined to be at a place where we look at 2011 with pride. Will there be bumps in the road, I am sure there will be. However as in life, it is not the problem that defines the business. What defines the business is how they deal with that problem.

So here is to a 2011 full of possibilities.