Are you getting into the new year? Or still thinking about the old? We’re having a run of cold weather, but the news in indie publishing continues to run hot. We all need passion in our writing sometimes, and then it’s back to business. Lots of viewpoints...
by Mary Tod I’m pleased to have Mary Tod, novelist and blogger, as a guest on The Book Designer. I found her article a fascinating take on the changes taking place in publishing, and I bet you will too. In the old-world model writers connected with readers...
Lightning Source, Inc., the print on demand supplier that’s a division of Ingram Book Company, is arguably the biggest supplier of digital books to the publishing trade. They are used by many traditional publishers, and by competitive self-publishers who want to...
Back in the early 1990s, when “new age” centers were sprouting like magic mushrooms, and there was more “ancient” knowledge being revealed than would seem to fit into the entire ancient world, sensational stories came and went. But if you were...
Publishing has traditionally been a slow process. Sometimes authors are surprised to learn that it may take one and a half to two years before their book is published by a traditional publisher. You can certainly improve on that pace by self-publishing, and one of the...
