Blog Entries tagged 'Publishing'

How to Write a Book�The Short Honest Truth

scififan

Every author I know gets asked the same question: How do you write a book? Scott provides simple, basic information about writing and book and links to more practical advice.

It's a simple question, but it causes unexpected problems. On the one hand, it's nice to have people interested in something I do. If I told people I fixed toasters for a living, I doubt I'd get many inquires. People are curious about writing and that's cool and flattering. Rock on.

But on the [...]

How to sell your books

rkelly

Born, raised and a resident in Illinois for most of her life, Valerie Connelly now lives with her husband, Michael, in Wisconsin north of Milwaukee. She divides her time between publishing, writing, teaching, painting landscapes and waterscapes, and traveling to visit her grown children.

Valerie shares her experience as a publisher:

I am a realist. As a publisher of books, this is an essential personality trait. So many of the authors I work with and for are purely dreamers that [...]

Small Press Contracts

rkelly

Just happened across a good post that's pertinent to the small press, in regards to contracts, etc. It's from 'Miss Snark' — an unidentified blogging literary agent:

First, anyone who writes to me and says "I have a contract in hand and I need an agent" gets a call back that day. Many times I've not taken the author on, but I've looked at the contract and given a few pointers. It's the very least I can do - sort of like banking some good will [...]

The endless debate: Adobe vs Quark!

anthrasula

Beginning in the late 1980's (and early 1990's), QuarkXpress and Adobe have tussled to see who would reign supreme and become the top choice in desktop publishing. In the 1980's Aldus Inc. had a desktop publishing program called PageMaker.

Aftewards, QuarkXpress Inc. released QuarkXPress, which become Aldus's main competition. Throughout this ongoing saga, QuarkXpress became victorious in the 1990's when PageMaker could not keep up with the competition.

In 19 [...]

Thinks to think about before going PODDING

rkelly

Often print-on-demand (POD) looks great. You can publish one book at a time when it's ordered.

But, think again. After many years of writers coming to me saying they did not make the return on their investment going with a POD, and my research noticing the poor returns from POD, I say consider all the options.

Some Things to consider before you go with POD

Take notice how many other writers and books are listed on the POD webpage. Like a store, your audien [...]

Going To Press This Week: Lou Rowan�s Experimental Fiction and Kikuko Otake�s Story of Survival

ahadadabooks

Sweet Potatoes an amazing collection of fiction praised by the likes of Harry Matthews and David Antin, and Kikuko Otake's Masako's Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima are now on the way to press.

It's been a hectic couple of weeks as Mr. Lou Rowan will soon be coming to Japan to read from his new book at the Four Stories Series in Osaka, and Otake, a survivor of the atomic tragedy at Hiroshima, will be reading from her book at peace rallies and other venues in [...]