An adoptee, found by her natural family, discovers and exposes a web of secrets and lies. Why was her birth certificate sealed and falsified by laws meant to hide bastards?
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Forbidden Family’s Publisher’s Page includes: About the Author, About the Book, and an excerpt.
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Ask your Public Library to add this book to their collection.
ISBN: 978-1-4120-6154-4
Publication Date: Nov 2009
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I will be selling this book at book signings, lectures, adoption conferences, social work conferences and wherever I am asked to present my work. For excerpt permissions, interviews, or other adoption-reform-related topics, please send an email to me at: joan@forbiddenfamily.com. Please include your first and last name, email address, and reason for contact stated clearly in the Subject Line.
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Q and A:
Where to Buy My Book Forbidden Family
Can I buy your book in my country?
I don’t know every available online avenue where my book is being sold. I don’t know every sales link, nor do I know every country that has its own equivalent to Amazon.com. However, I do know that my book’s direct sales link, worldwide, is:
http://www.trafford.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000137652
You can click on that link from anywhere in the world and order my book, Forbidden Family. This is the direct buy set up through Trafford Publishing. This means that once you place your book order, the Trafford Print Shop processes that order and ships the book to you anywhere in the world within a very short time; three days I think. That is the beauty of Publish on Demand Publishing.
Is your book available in Book Stores?
No, not yet. The downside to choosing to publish with an online Publish On Demand publisher is that the book is not yet available in bookstores.
How do I buy your book?
To buy a copy of my book you must have Internet access.
Can I get an autographed copy?
You can email me for a signed book. Postage and handling will vary depending upon where you live. Cost per book is $45, plus shipping and handling.
I saw your book at $1 a long time ago. Are you getting Royalties?
Yes, I am. That $1 price has been corrected by the publsiher and Amazon.com. Please do not worry about any discounted prices. I will still be getting my share of royalties, so if you see a ridiculously low price somewhere, know that the book seller paid full price for the books and I am still receiving royalties. Several of my readers have written to me asking about that. As an author, I am completely in the dark about how this book is being sold and purchased by worldwide book sellers.
Your book’s name is out there, but no cover photo or book blurb.
I know that a few online book sellers do not have a cover photo nor do they have a write up of “About The Book”. I cannot control this oversight. If you spot anything that needs attention, please let me know via email at the contact page tab. I can email or call my publisher and have them look into any problem that is out there.
Why did you choose Trafford?
I chose Trafford Publishing because they were the best Publish-On-Demand publishers available. Their staff is wonderful and professional. There are pluses and minuses to any publishing contract. I like the provision that reverts the copyright back to me. I also like the provision that the book is available through Trafford Publishing worldwide. It will be available for sale online at their bookstore for as long as I choose to keep it available, and as long as Trafford is a publisher. This means it will never go out of print.
Should I, at some point, pick up a contract with a mainstream publisher, my contract with Trafford allows me to do that without penalty.
The advantages of picking up a mainstream publisher would mean that the mainstream publisher would then pick up all media exposure and bookings for lectures and book signings. Currently, I am doing this completely on my own as I cannot afford to pay for these services at the pay-per-services fees through Trafford.
I still would like to see your book on the shelves in a book store!
So do I! It will eventually get there!
So, for the confusion that is out there, even if you cannot locate an online bookseller in your country, please check back at this website for the LINK to TRAFFORD PUBLISHING at which you can always purchase my book.
Will your book be available at our local Library?
The only way for that to happen is for you to request that your Library pick it up and pt it in their collection. Here’s how to do that: give them this information and ask the Library to add Forbidden Family to their library:
ISBN number is: 978-1-4120-6154-4. Date of publication: Nov 2009. Trafford Publishing link: http://www.trafford.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000137652
So, thank you for your questions. I hope I’ve answered them here. If not, please email me!
~ ~ ~ Joan M Wheeler, BA, BSW.
