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
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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 I am frequently asked what I think the future of publishing is. As a book publisher I am somewhat nervous about the answer I might give. I am do absolutely believe that publishing has a future. On the one hand I do agree that the physical object we call the book is . . . → Read More: Future of Publishing As a beginning author and a beginning publisher, the most dreaded, insecure question you can be asked is: “Did you publish it yourself?” As I wrote in the previous article, sure, being self-published leaves you in good company and there is really nothing inherently wrong with it. In fact, if you look . . . → Read More: Who published your book? The Publisher’s Life Blog What do Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, even William Blake all have in common? Yes, they were each self-published. If you were going to choose some remarkable role-models these folks wouldn’t be the worst ones you could choose. So why the scorn for the self-published author? Much of it is warranted, . . . → Read More: You Think Self-Publishing Is a Joke? Not So Fast
Part Three: So I started my newsletter, got some remarkable feedback from some well-known authors and my confidence was high. I grew my mailing list to 500 for Sycamore Roots. I sort of used the newsletter as a business card really. That is, I presented myself in the writing world with it. . . . → Read More: The Publishing Life, 3 I left off Part One with deciding I would submit my newly thought-of newsletter Sycamore Roots to a variety of readers. The easiest part of becoming a publisher is actually saying you’re going to do it. The hard part, as it is with anything, is following through. Well, I decided that if . . . → Read More: The Publisher’s Life #2 |
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