Is there a more powerful set of words than, “Once upon a time,” or, “In a land far, far away”, or maybe, “On a dark and stormy night?” What are all these? Each of them excite and trigger in each of us the anticipation of a coming story. The thrill of hearing . . . → Read More: The Simple, Yet All-Powerful Phrase, “Once Upon A Time”
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I receive lots and lots of queries and even more face-to-face questions regarding the idea of what makes a good book. People want to know if I’ll accept their book idea for publication. Sometimes I even wonder myself: how do I know what is good or not? How can an author know if . . . → Read More: Do You Really Have A Good Idea For A Book?
I Might Become President: Doing Creative Work For People Is Good
In this day and age of the internet the cutting-edge business community spouts off constantly about the value of what you can give away for free. There is much ado about something regarding podcasts and YouTube videos. There is a theory . . . → Read More: I Might Become President: Doing Creative Work For People Is Good As Thanksgiving rolls around this year I am thinking about a talk I just gave to a group of writers. I was telling them about my decisions and struggles to become a writer myself, the efforts to write during breaks at work, the need to promote my writing and how I finally . . . → Read More: Writing, Publishing, Creativity, and Thanksgiving Buy local, support local, go local, shop locally… these campaigns have all the potential in the world, but they are normally thin and lack much thought. They sound encouraging and many people see the “local” aspect and believe that just going to a farmer’s market will be enough, that just shopping at . . . → Read More: Exploring the Concept of Local Again: Why It Means Next To Nothing Most of the Time If you had asked me ten years ago would I still be in business as an independent book publisher I would have laughed and said, “No.” But I wouldn’t have meant it. I am determined to do what I care about and it would take a lot to talk me out of . . . → Read More: Imagined Success, Real Success and Commitment To Your Own Business There is a part of writing and publishing that is entirely dependent on audience engagement. Like the tree that makes no noise if no one is there to hear it: that is, no writing is heard if no one is there to read it. In this case, it’s literally true, the book . . . → Read More: Author Events: What We Still Have Left To Offer After someone finds out you’re a publisher, (the first question, “What do you do?” comes the next question–”What do you publish?” This second question, as is the third question to come soon, is oftentimes a thinly veiled trick question. The third question, as you may have guess, almost 95% of the time . . . → Read More: A Query Letter? What Can and Should It Be? The start of random thoughts: I recently spent three days as a faculty member at the Midwest Writing Center in the Quad Cities and lots and lots of ideas floated through my mouth for both wanna be writers and established authors. The field of being a writer is truly vast and inspirational. . . . → Read More: Dreams, Books, E-Books, Writing and Other Random Thoughts From My Publisher’s Life Would I put a blurb on the back of book that was not positive? What do you think? People often say that they do not trust book blurbs? Readers, book buyers, reviewers even seem to wonder these days why publishers and authors bother. Worse yet, they do something even more peculiar, they . . . → Read More: Myths and Rumors About Book Cover Blurbs |
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