book publishing
November 19, 2009
- An amazing news announcement from Worldcolor (World Color Press Inc.); world headquarters are ironically in Montreal right near where I live. Even more ironic is that I knew the founder who gave me my first computer. We met right here in Ste-Adele where he lived at a coffee shop named Poivre. Anyway I had to get that personal story in and on that note I will proceed. If you want to ...
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November 6, 2009
- I know we’ve only just hit day number six, but it’s time to get into the real nitty-gritty of nonfiction writing: the business end of book publishing. (I warned you we would!) If you’re going to write a nonfiction book, you must be sure you have a marketable product. (This is true of articles, too, but we're going to talk about books today.) While fiction writers also must be sure their ...
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November 3, 2009
- A question I've been known to ask people who want to write is: What kind of writer do you want to be? A companion question, and one I think equally important is: Why do you write - because you love to write or because you want to be published?It's only natural to want, having written, your words to reach a wider audience. And it would be downright nimrodic, given that I've had several books ...
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October 18, 2009
- Congratulations to my very good friend Kelli Russell Agodon whose book Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room has just won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize!!!
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October 15, 2009
- After finding success with his first three children’s books, author Howard Shapiro seems to have nowhere to go but up. Having accomplished his goal of writing characters that adults and kids would be able to relate to in his stories and also achieving self-publishing victory with Hockey Days (Xlibris) Shapiro continues to pursue his love for the written word and the sport of hockey in ...
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October 7, 2009
- I want to run away from the book fair. Lots of people in suits doing business, traditional business. I want to run away as fast as I can. Not a good reaction for a (sort of) literary agent. I think I’m supposed to embrace all this stuff but it’s been a long time since I did traditional business. It’s been nice getting dressed up and men can look good in a suit (not as good as in a kilt but ...
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October 5, 2009
- So this weekend I heard two inspiring stories of people who defied naysayers and succeeded. They're the kind of stories that make you want to applaud, and they make you think yes, I can do anything!At the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association trade show, I heard author Garth Stein speak. He heard his agent say about the manuscript for his third book, "No one will read a book with a ...
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August 29, 2009
- Virginia Woolf famously said in “A Room of One’s Own” that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” My room is a bedroom which has in place of the requisite bed and dresser: a desk, a couch, two small round tables suitable for setting manuscripts on, and lots of books. I occasionally think I should replace my bookshelves—a walnut bookcase and a ...
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August 11, 2009
- For many women, working in a male-dominated industry can be very daunting. Some women, in a bid to fit in and move up, make the mistake of hiding their real selves, trying to be like men. But for self-published author Renee Weisman, women can survive and succeed in a man’s world without having to change who they are as women. She shares this in her book, Winning In a Man’s World. This ...
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August 10, 2009
- When I was a graduate student in the Creative Writing program at Boston University, we had a visit one day from three people from the publishing world, including C. Michael Curtis, the fiction editor at The Atlantic Monthly. I told Mike after our little session that I had submitted a couple of stories to him, and he immediately remembered them and encouraged me to submit more. He also wondered ...
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