This week we should be celebrating the 9th birthday of my son.
Instead we are celebrating the 9th anniversary since his murder.
If you have any information, please call FBI Portland Office @ 207-774-9322
ask for Agent Andy Drewer.
November 14, 2013 10PM @ Southern Maine Community College Art Studio Bug-Light Parking Lot: 3 strangers armed with golf clubs, attacked me from behind while I was loading bags into the backseat of my car. They were a blond woman 60s-ish whom the others called "Claire", a natural red-haired woman also 60sish who called herself "Kendra", and a bald man, football player-body-type-build in his 30sish. I was 8 months pregnant. They murdered my baby, ruptured 3 discs in my spine, shattered 3 vertebra, broke my pelvis, hips, and knees. I was paralyzed for 5 months and was 18 months relearning to walk. The nerve damage has left me with limited use of my hands, legs, bladder, and intestines.
On top of that, they have also taken to harassing the baby's father, a disfigured, homeless, WW2 veteran, whom they call "Etoile". They spread hateful rumours about him claiming he is a cryptid, a demon, or most often what they term "an amphibious alien". He lives in pine branch lean-toos he builds in Old Orchard Beach and Ocean Park, and they have been hunting the locations of them, tearing them down, and smashing up his belongings.
April 10, 2015 1PM at 146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach Maine a gang of estimated 74 people, some of them wearing ku klux klan robes, invaded my farm, used a Blow Brothers sewage truck to pump 500+gallons of sewage into my motorhome flooding it to over the kitchen counters deep, ripped out all the cabinets and built in furniture, while 14 men armed with guns, held my family down on the ice and snow, with guns to our heads, and used cinder block bricks and a metal pole with metal wire loops to beat and behead 10 of my 12 foster children (the youngest age 4, the oldest age 16). May 15, 2015 they returned and nailed their heads to my front door. The 3 people of the November 14, 2013 attack were among the group.
September 12, 2015, 9AM a dozen+ of these same people arrived again in my driveway at 146, this time chanting: "Too gay for the family friendly town of Old Orchard Beach. Kill of be killed. Remember Saco Shaw's, Transgender Murder Store, kill the transvestites before they kill us all", one white haired man in a dark green pick up truck was leading the herd, while waving a rifle over his head and shooting at me and my pink motorhome, he shot several holes through my neighbour's shed. The crowd was accusing me of being a male-to-female "transgender terrorist" (they thought I was Muslim because I wear Catholic veiling).
June 26, 2016, the same 2 women of the first 2 attacks, arrived at my Scarborough WalMart workplace, and in a near repeat of the first attack, again while I was leaned over the back seat of my car putting bags in, this time they attacked with a chopping cart, re-injuring my spine, hip, and pelvis that was not yet fully healed from the first attack. The blond "Claire" woman was screaming "That's EelKat, she tried to kill my husband!" while the redhead screamed "I'm Kendra Silvermander it's my turn the shine!" They sped away in a early2000s-vintage gold Volvo SUV station wagon. This attack left me permanently crippled, and bedridden from 2016 until May 2022.
November 21, 2021: They shot "Etiole" in Biddeford, while he was staying at the tent-shanty-village with about 50 other homeless people along the Saco River in Biddeford. They made the claim he was a "suicide demon" citing that he was driving locals to suicide by putting "evil eye curses" on them.
These people murdered my baby, attempted to murder the baby's father, drove a backhoe over our house, and left me crippled for the rest of my life in their attempt to murder me.
I do not know who these people are. I never saw them before these attacks, and I've not seen them outside of these attacks. The police and FBI believe I was not the intended target, and that they were likely after my mother because of posts she makes on FaceBook and got us mixed up. The Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police and the FBI are seeking information leading to their identity and arrest.
More Info @ eelkat.com
Long detailed info on the over 200 attacks they have done between June 2001 and May 2022, including photos of them driving a backhoe over our house on August 8, 2013 and the details of the malicious "amphibious alien" rumour they have been spreading about a local homeless disabled veteran @
https://www.eelkat.com/AmphibiousAliens.html
Images:
July 4th 2013: my car in front of my house.
August 8, 2013: me getting home from work to find a backhoe sitting on top of my house.
The FBI already found the people with the backhoe incident, and learned that the backhoe driver was paid $600 and given a fake demolition paper, the paper stating one of my relatives (the one who paid him the $600) owned my land. The backhoe driver was unaware that the man he was dealing with was not the owner. I have lived at 146 Portland Ave since 1975 and have owned the land since 1983, it has never been owned by anyone else, even though we have now learned that both my mother and my father and 3 of my uncles had been actively going around Old Orchard Beach claiming they owned my land.
This happened 3 months before my son was murdered and the police and FBI believe my son was murdered BECAUSE of this picture being posted on FaceBook, and my mother making inciting/inflammatory posts about it on HER FaceBook, where she falsely accused me of being a witch. The FBI and OOB police believe the golf club wielding woman of November 14, 2013, is somehow connected to the backhoe driving over my house incident.
Since the murder, 3 other different backhoes have invading my land to dig up my yard, looking for the grave of my son. There is a family cemetery on my land, the stones dating mostly in the 1500s and 1600s, with a few from the past hundred years, the most recent being my son in 2013. 146 Portland Ave has belonged to my family since 1530, and I inherited it in 1983 from my grandmother Helen Ricker Allen. The most recent backhoe attack happened September 19, 2020, when they illegally cut down several trees in my yard, and started construction of a road through my yard between my pink 1975 Dodge Sportsman motorhome and BackElder Brooke, again the backhoe digging up and destroying large portions of my farm, in their search for my murdered son's grave. They dug up 16 of the graves in this attack.
We have had to remove the grave markers from the family grave in order to stop these vandals and their illegally trespassing construction equipment from destroying the graves.
The FBI believes these construction crews are being hired by the golf club wielding women, and believe she is trying to destroy the grave of my son, due to a fear of his golf club smashed skull being used as court evidence against her.
The most recent attacks by these people occurred November 21, 2021 and March 27, 2022 when they attacked my painted Volvo while it was parked at my dad's apartment in Biddeford, both times the vandals also cut all the wires to electricity, internet, and cable off the apartment building, effecting all 9 families living there.
The Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police Departments as well as the Portland FBI are seeking any information regarding any and all of these attacks on my family, my home, my land, or my cars.
If you have any information, please call FBI Portland Office @ 207-774-9322
ask for Agent Andy Drewer.
Amazon is phasing out CreateSpace. They sent out an email around October 2017-ish, telling us authors who had books on CreateSpace to move them to Kindle Paperback instead. They did not give any specific dates, just told us to start using KDP Paperback option from now on and move our CreateSpace books to the new Kindle Paperback.
They rolled out Kindle PaperBacks in May 2016, but you had to be part of the beta test program to access it back then. I was in the program, so my books were among the first to make the switch. I've nothing on CreateSpace now, and most of my novels and short stories are now available via Kindle only, which means they are in BOTH print and ebook editions, all from one single file now, because Kindle is no longer ebook only. Upload once, publish once, available in two formats.
Kindle paperback is still in Beta, but it's now in "public beta" meaning anyone who wants to try it, only has to activate it in their dashboard now, instead of signing up for the beta program.
I sell more paperbacks then ebooks, but this is because I do a lot of offline sales at comic book/geek conventions and shows. And I take the print copies with me. I'm also at carnivals, festivals, car shows (I build art cars, see here: https://www.eelkat.com/images/eelkat-marcy-razzberry-biddeford4-640px.jpg ), state fairs, and any place else that lets me set up a booth. We are "carny" Gypsies, so I also have a book truck (a 1975 Dodge Sportsman Motorhome see here: https://www.eelkat.com/images/nohurryasrosebudwithrazz640.jpg ) which I sell my books out of anyplace I'm allowed to set up - same way as Food Trucks do. I've been self-pubbing and selling face-to-face in person to the local public since 1978. Print books are thus my primary source of book income. Before the invention of PoD books, I was doing vanity press, which requires thousands of books printed at once. I've now switched to PoD as I can just print up 10 or 20 or more books at a time, depending on where I'm going and how many I think will sell at that venue. I've only started making my books available as ebooks rather recently.
Getting into local bookstores can be tricky.
No bookstore is going to actively search the database and order your book. If you want to be on the shelf, you MUST print up a case of books yourself, load them into the trunk of your car, drive to your local bookstore, and request they sell your books on commision. Most bookstores love to work with local authors. Most bookstores have a section devoted to self published books by local authors. Look for local bookstores with such a section, and target these as they are your best bet at getting sold in print.
Large chains like Books a Million or Boarder Books, won't touch a self-pubbed book, because they are franchises with no say on what goes on the shelves. The company has a central warehouse that sends books out to all the store across the country at once. So, don't even bother with those.
Though I've never tried it myself, it is possible to get into WalMart. For that you have to go to the WalMart Corp's headquarter website and search for the wholesaler link. In there is a link, for authors and publishers. You fill out the form and submit your request. If accepted, WalMart will start mass ordering 100s of thousands of your books to distribute all over the country to every WalMart on the planet. I've spoken with a few authors who did this and they said they were basically overnight mega successes, just because WalMart orders so many books all at once to distribute to their stores. I looked into doing this and from what I read, it's pretty difficult to get accepted and they get thousands of requests a month and only accept a few dozen a year. But, it certainly can't hurt to apply for WalMart distribution if you think your book qualifies for their guidelines/requirements. Mine didn't qualify, and I can't remember now why, but that's why I never applied. I think it was they don't accept Erotica, I think that might have been what I didn't qualify for.
On the other hand MOST little small mom&pop style book stores will take a self pubbed book, but don't expect much to come of it. You need to go to a sales person, ask for a manager or the store owner or a retail merchandiser (most small stores won't have an retail merchandiser, but ones that have multiple location, say 5 stores one in each town, usually well). Explain to the manager you are a local author and would like your books to be including in their local author department/section. Ask to set up an appointment so you can meet with the manager when they are not busy. Have 3 to 5 copies of your book in your car, in case they have time to talk to you now, but be prepared to come back in a few days instead.
Most bookstores, will request 3 copies of your book and will put it on their "local authors" table/shelf/display. (NOTE: if you try to get it put on a genre shelf - Romance, Fantasy, etc, they'll likely say no, so always ask to be placed in the "local author" section instead, and they almost always say yes.) They will usually take the books on consignment, meaning, they'll put it on the shelf for a specified time (often 30 days to 3 months) and if the books sell in that time, they'll pay you a commision (usually 30% or less) and depending on how fast or slow they sold, they may ask you to bring in more.
Note: You'll have to go through a process of filling out forms and signing contracts, and agreeing on commissions percentages. Plan on being in the meeting with the manager for well over an hour.
If the books sell quickly in the first few days, they may ask you to bring in 10 or 12 more, and will expect you to come right in that same day with them, so be sure you have 20 to 30 copies pre-printed and on hand in case this does happen. They are not going to want to wait for you to order more. If the books sold quick, they want more NOW. Waiting a week or more for your PoD order to ship to you, could cost you shelf space.
If you instead say to them: here's my Amazon account you can buy them here. They'll just toss your url note in the trash and never give your books another thought. You MUST have the physical book in hand, for them to shelve that day. They are NOT going to look it up and order it. Most book stores figure if the author went to the trouble to bring the books in, then they have nothing to lose by taking a chance on shelving it, but they won't waste their time searching for the book, ordering the book, and then waiting for delivery, not when you are unknown and a risk.
Remember, you bring the books in to the store is RISK FREE for them, because they sell books on comision, meaning they do not put up one penny up front, and you only get paid IF the books sell. But if they have to order your books off amazon, they have to risk paying money up front for something they have no guarantee they can sell.
IMPORTANT: Do notice that I said in most cases they want 3 copies, and, wait to see how many sell in a 3 month period. Yes. If you sell 1 copy a month, you are doing good. Like I said, don't expect a lot of sales. Local authors are hard sells, and only a few people in each town actually actively look in the local author section for something to read.
Also, before you try to donate a copy of your book to a local library, know ahead of time that libraries can not legally accept any book that has not first been submitted to the Library of Congress database. For that you have to contact the LoC, fill out their submission forms, and mail them 3 physical copies of you book, so they can catalogue it, and assign it a LoC number. Once your book has an LoC number assigned to it, you can now go to your local library, and give them a copy of the book, and a printout of the page the Library of Congress sent you with you LoC number on it.
If your book does not have an LoC number, the library will just toss your book into their bin of books to be sold at the next book sale and it will never be catalogued or shelved.
NOTE: Once a library catalogues your book into a collection, bookstores will be alerted to the existence of your book and you MAY, start to see bookstores ordering your book to put on their shelves. This is because many small bookstores keep track of "new releases" added to their local library and often will order the same books on the theory that, if one of the librarians thought it was good enough to catalogue, then we want people to buy it from us instead of read it for free at the library. Do keep in mind that though this happens often, it rarely results in more than a dozen sales, as most bookstores only keep 3 copies of any book in stock. (With the exception of bestsellers, which they may have a 100 or more in stack).
Hope that helps.
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