by Joel Friedlander | Mar 12, 2011 | Self-Publishing
I’m off today to the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association Get Published! Institute in Oakland. I’ll be on Twitter using the #baipa hashtag and reporting on the presentations. If things work out I may also shoot some video with the independent...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 10, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
This weekend is the annual all-day workshop run by the (San Francisco) Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). This year the event has moved out of Marin County, where it has traditionally been held, to Nile Hall in Preservation Park, part of Oakland,...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 12, 2011 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
I’m off today giving a presentation to the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). The talk is on Author Blogging 101. I thought I might speak about book design, but the demand from the members I talked to was blogging and social media more than...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 15, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
I’m a big fan of local publishing groups. It’s just smart, when you’re starting on a big project in an area you don’t know, to make use of the education and help available through these groups. Where I live, we have the monthly meetings of the...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 17, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
There are different kinds of self-publishers, maybe as many different kinds as there are people publishing their own books. But there’s one type of self-publisher that I would call folk-art publishers. What I mean is that folk artists are primitives in the sense...
