Author Rep Training

The operating officer and I worked on the training manual today for the Author Reps. -- A CD full of contracts, emails, instructions, forms, and more that each of our Author Reps receive in preparation for helping authors through the publishing process. Only by writing down each step does one realize just how involved of a process this is. Each book must be tracked like a project, with nearly infinite variables, and an online and offline database are updated for the book and author. Our CFO is working on consolidating all the data into a SQL / Access database and that will be nice.

Speaking of which, she's also finalizing profit payments for our authors for 4th quarter 2004. It's always fun to see our authors money. It's nice to be in a business that is so gratifying.