I’ve received a number of books about self-publishing recently, and from all reports there are more on the way. All of these books have something to offer the author who wants to get involved in publishing their own work. And each has a unique perspective, often based on the author’s experience before they became self-publishers.
Of [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2009
I believe there is nothing that bothers writers as much as English grammar. Let’s face it, for most people writing a book is a pretty big project. It will take months, perhaps years to get to the end of a manuscript that is ready for publication. One of the biggest reasons we need editors—and all [...]
This is the fifth in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
I had decided I could do without the “psychic rewards” that publishing offered, and that it was time to look for less lofty rewards, like a decent salary. I’d become [...]
I recently came across a blog by Betty Ming Liu, an award-winning teacher of writing and journalism at NYU, The New School, Media Bistro, and Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute. She recently learned a lot about chapbooks at a panel discussion devoted to the topic. Check her blog post for a great introduction to chapbooks [...]
Over the last few months I’ve designed two book covers that involved artwork supplied by the author. This is a slightly unusual situation and forces you to think in creative ways. If your client hands you a piece of artwork and says, “I love this! I want it on my book cover,” then you had [...]
A couple of weeks ago we took our son and his friend to lunch at Sam’s Anchor Cafe in lovely downtown Tiburon, a tony suburb of San Francisco that sticks out into the Bay. It’s a popular spot and attracts a lot of people coming from San Francisco on the delightful ferries that ply the [...]
So you’ve written your masterpiece, had a friend look it over for errors, run it through your word processor’s spell check and created a cover with a “cover program” on your publishing company’s website. You are ready to do battle in the marketplace.
Hey, you should be able to go head-to-head with any other book, right? [...]
The post continues the Book Construction Blueprint, a series of posts providing reliable guidance to anyone taking on the construction of a book that must conform to generally-accepted practice.
We’ve already looked at the parts of a book, book pagination, the copyright page, the use of chapters and subheads, and the elements found on the book [...]
This is the fourth in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
I had been gone from the city for several years, and in the meantime had joined the spiritual group of which I was still a member, run my first company, [...]
