News release: November 30, 2007
Author
promotes money book on banned web site to protest condo
board's order not to write, sell e-books online.
Her
book, Your Wisdom is Worth a
Million: 150 Smart Ways Leading
Authorities Earn More Money and So Can You,
is for experts who earn less than they
could.
St. Catharines,
ON
“You
are operating an internet/consulting business from your
unit… immediately cease and desist from operating this
commercial business….”
Andrea
Reynolds, author of Your Wisdom is Worth a
Million: 150 Smart Ways
Leading Authorities Earn More Money... and So Can
You, writes books
and sells them online only. She obeyed this outrageous
edict and deleted her four California- based web sites
out of fear that the board of directors would evict her
from the building, leaving her homeless, with a vacant
three bedroom unit on which she would still have to pay
the mortgage, condo fees, property tax, and insurance
($1500 a month). "I don't want to live in a building
where a quiet woman who lives an isolated existence is
treated like a criminal and deprived of her only income
so she can't pay her mortgage or condo fees simply
because she writes self-help books and can publish web
sites." (Despite not having income for a year Reynolds
has made every payment on time.)
Unable to find a buyer for her
three bedroom condo
(asking: $146,000) she
will give it away through a no-fee essay contest. If she sells 3,700 copies of her new
e-book, Your Wisdom is Worth
a Million: 150 Smart Ways Leading Authorities Earn More
Money... and So Can You, she can pay off the mortgage,
closing costs and her mounting debt load. Defying the
board’s order she has re-launched her 4 web sites and is
promoting her book and condo giveaway contest to the
media and press, which the board forbids.
Her
150 page e-book, amalgamates all the wisdom she has given
clients over the 30 years she has been in practice, and is
written for those consultants and experts who answer yes to
any of these questions:
1. Are you undervaluing your expertise?
2. Are you undercharging your clients?
3. Are you earning less than you
deserve?
Three sample tips -
expanded upon in the book with case histories:
1. Rather than
write a blog for free, charge a reasonable membership fee
(annual or monthly) on your web site for access to a
combination of advice sources.
2. Turn your weekly or monthly electronic newsletter into a
subscription-based newsletter filled with specific,
specialized advice.
3. Sell a limited number of copies of your book at a
generous price reduction in advance of the release date.
Each person who orders a pre-publication copy ($49) saves
$40 over the post-publication price ($89), and will have
his/her name, company name and web site URL posted not only
in the book as a patron but on Andrea's web site with a link
back to your web site. Professionals and companies are
requested to order through her web site:
www.AndreaReynolds.com by PayPal or by phone. The 150
page e-book will be released by January 1, 2007. Experts
can subscribe to her free weekly email tip.
Continues Reynolds, "My brilliant lawyer, S. Enam
Bukhari, the longest surviving lawyer on full life
support who
still works full-time, recognized that this was a
violation of my fundamental rights - freedom of opinion
and expression, freedom of the press, freedom of
peaceful assembly, freedom of communication - and wrote
the directors a letter advising them there would be a
multi-million dollar lawsuit if they didn't resolve
these issues. The 5 directors and property manager have
refused to discuss this issue with me for the past year,
so my invoice for $3.25 million will be sent Nov. 30. If
I don't make this a public issue who knows what they
will do next. Burn books?"
Interview requests: info@AndreaReynolds.com or (905)
280-0223.
SIDEBAR
Never tell a journalist she's forbidden to write books or
publish a web site. Here's why. First, it violates Canada's
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the United States this
would be a First Amendment issue. Second, there is nothing
in her condominium's bylaws saying that owners cannot
quietly earn a living from inside their units. Third, the
web site (AndreaReynolds.com) sits on a server in
California, not in Canada, which she established in 2000
while living in Pennsylvania, so technically she operates
an American company.
Fourth, the web site offers self-help, how-to information
to help people build their careers and cope with emotional
and financial crises... nothing illegal or immoral. Fifth,
the author-publisher-consultant is a quiet, friendly person
who receives no deliveries, visitors or mail at her
residence, and pays her bills on time. Sixth, one of the 5
directors bought 3 of her books, just before sending her a
Cease and Desist letter about owning an online
publishing/consulting business… which makes the board
members look like hypocrites, especially the one who
teaches classes in her home after ordering our journalist
not to teach classes in her home.
Seventh, depriving someone of a legitimate income just as
she is picking up the pieces of a shattered life is spirit
crushing. Eighth, taking away her livelihood puts her in a
financial position where it's difficult to pay her condo
fees, and if you're the condo board you're working against
your own best interests. And lastly, she's likely to send
news releases to the press and media across the United
States and Canada and make you look very stupid.
THE
AUTHOR
Andrea Reynolds,
a former member of the National Writer's Association and
Periodical Writer's Association of Canada has been an
outspoken advocate of writers' rights and cherishes her
copy of Fahrenheit 451, signed by its author Ray Bradbury.
She opened Author's Bed and Breakfast in Toronto in 1997
until a home invasion and subsequent death threats forced
her to close down and hide for 8 years with little income.
Arriving in St. Catharines in 2005 and purchasing her first
home (at age 56) was the new start for which she longed,
only to have her hopes crushed by power-hungry board
members.
As Reynolds has been unable to sell her unit at any price
because of obstacles the board keeps presenting, she hopes
to raise $170,000 from book sales so she can
give the home away for free
and pay off the mortgage,
closing costs, and debts incurred while being forced to
stop earning an income. She had been earning as much as
$450 an hour consulting to physicians, psychotherapists
and financial consultants who work for such prestigious
organizations as the World Bank and the Federal Reserve
Bank in Washington, D.C., so she knows about money.
In university
(Kent State), Andrea Reynolds was, at times, the only woman
in her business classes of 100 men, which forced her to
work doubly hard to prove herself. And she was rewarded
with the only "A" by a marketing professor notorious for
not giving "A"s for 10 years and who himself consulted in
Washington to the President (of the United States) on
weekends. That was her initial training to make it in a
man's world as a marketing consultant to consultants for
the past 30 years. And Kent State still uses
one of her booklets as a supplemental text.
Anticipating retaliation from the President of the Board,
she has recently launched 4 newly designed web sites and a
blog: AndreaReynolds.com, CrisisBrainstorm.com, CommissionFreeSpeakers.com,
HandyAnde and SpreadingProsperity.blogspot.com;
and plans to promote them on her North American tour.
Ironically, the
back cover of a new book, Condo Buying &
Ownership Made Simple,
by US author Kay Senay, includes Andrea Reynolds’
review.
Interview requests:
info@AndreaReynolds.com
or (905)
280-0223.
Your Wisdom is Worth a Million: 150 Smart Ways Leading
Authorities Earn More Money... and So Can
You
by
Andrea Reynolds
