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Q: How in the world do I get my co-worker to stop interrupting? She expects you to respond the split second she yells from her office. If you don't respond she marches out and starts talking to me even if I'm on the phone or having another conversation. Just some sarcastic help on shutting her down would help :)
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Don't be sarcastic, that will make you look bad and hard to work with. Even if your boss doesn't see/hear you saing something, somebody may "tell" on you.
Take her aside, in private, and ask her to please not yell from her office. Say something like, "I would really appreciate it if you would send me and email, call me, or just come to my desk instead of yelling from your office. It is difficult for me to concentrate on my phone conversation if I am inturrupted." Also, especially if the situation does not resolve, speak to whoever the Human Resource manager is. They should be able to speak with the rude person as an authority figure to encourage your co-worker to treat you with a little bit more respect.
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Q: I have a great accomplishment. I am a big poetry writer and so I gathered all of my best from my teen years and present when I was 20, 3 years ago. I put together and published an 80 page book of poetry called, "Running Through the Blue." It includes my own artwork, too. This project took 2 years to complete. I paid $800 for 25 copies that took me a year to save for. Now, I know I should have done things differently when I got my copies becasue friends and family scoffed them all up for $10 a copy. I made only $120, but not all at once of course, so that money was intertwined into my life's needs and it is spent. I should have marketed my book and now I only have 2 copies left (3 if you count my own). Does anyone have any suggestions what I can do with these 2 books left, like maybe get them into the "right hands" somehow? I know my poetry is really good and I know my friends and family all appreciated it but I think those books are just filling shelf space maybe to look at and say, "cool, I'm proud of her." Yeah, okay, but I worked so hard for this, I would like it to go recognized in a deeper place, like with someone that could help me become something. Does anyone have any ideas? I already know what it is I should have done, but what can I do now that what's done is done? I can't just buy more copies, I'm a stay at home mom now, I never have money, I don't work again for another 2 years or so. Please help me find my way in the right direction!! Thank you.
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You don't need to have a finished product to take to a publisher, it would be way too expensive for you to try to get it professionally published that way. By my experience publishers often have specific formatting and method of submission that they would like you to follow.
You can also go through http://www.cafepress.com and other internet self-publishing resources to recreate more books.
ALSO, check out these two articles from SoYouWanna.com:
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/publishbook/publishbook.html and http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/publishpoem/publishpoem.html
About's Poetry section also may have helpful publishing resources: http://poetry.about.com
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