The first edition of the eBook Cover Design Awards came out in August, 2011. Since then we’ve published thousands of covers and critiques, skewered the covers that seemed wanting, and praised the designers who showed real innovation and skill in this new form. The...
I’ve had a long love affair with book publishing. At this point I can’t quite put my finger on when it began, but growing up in a printer’s family probably didn’t hurt. When I first moved back to New York City after my youthful travels, I...
A long time ago Jill and I started our own publishing company. It was something I had wanted to do for quite a while. Because I had spent quite a bit of time developing direct mail and other direct-sales campaigns, I thought I could sell books, too. The publishing...
I’ve been a longtime reader of Kris Rusch’s blog on publishing, linking to it often. If you don’t know it, you should. Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has won two Hugo awards, a...
Ed: Last year I was asked by Writer’s Digest Magazine to contribute an article to their big publishing issue, and I was happy to oblige. It turned into a fairly long article that became a feature in the magazine. Writer’s Digest doesn’t publicly...