My company, Wood Lily Publishers, received a call the other day from a person interested in getting published. Their loaded question, “How do I get published?”, caught me off guard for a moment. My mind raced frantically trying to sum up in a short answer all the information I had learned over the last fifteen [...]
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I was recently in an Apple store. The store beckoned me, not only with its huge Apple logo, but with the number of people, including children milling about the iPad display counter. It was hard to get near it. The children definitely outnumbered adults and it was fascinating to watch how they handled the device.
I [...]
With three weeks of targeted market research and a fifty page business plan, David Korinetz incorporated Red Tuque Books on December 16th, 2009 and began inviting small Canadian presses and self-published authors to join his distribution network.
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Wood Lily Publishers (Press Release) – April 9, 2010 - Water Valley – [...]
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The digital future is here. From printed book to PDF copy, onto to e-book sales and now digital applications of books are making their way onto the iPhone/iTouch. With buzz words like Amazon’s “Kindle”, and “Sony Reader”, electronic readers are circulating throughout the net and in homes. Now we are being introduced to the iPad. [...]
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Being in the book publishing, and graphics industry, one comes up against copyright all the time. When you create a piece of writing or artwork that is original, specifically from your thoughts, crafted, designed and written or illustrated by you without the use of any copying methods, then you own the right to that piece [...]
Before setting off on a self publishing route, you have to determine what your goal of self publishing is. Self publishing - seeing the book from manuscript into a bound copy is the easy part, but the hard part of self publishing is the work that surrounds it, and the biggest of all [...]
Can a self published author charge for author visits? This is a question I have asked myself after several school and library readings, when I’ve taken up at least an hour or two of my time and haven’t sold a single book. When I first published Little Blue Penguin, my children’s book for ages 2 [...]
Blogging here at aboutwritingandpublishing will be sparse over the next week, while I take a much needed vacation break. I wrote in another blog (journalsandpapers.com) about travel journals and writing and suggested a difficult exercise.
Writers have to think and be able to describe senses to set up a scene effectively. When I [...]
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As writers, we all need them, have used them at one time or another, have even started one or two ourselves. I’m talking about writer’s groups. If you are starting out, love writing and want to be in a community of like-minded individuals, then a writing group is for you. If you are a well-seasoned [...]
There are many kinds of publishers and if you are looking at getting your manuscript published, you should know the differences. Notice I said manuscript in the last sentence. That’s because even though you feel like you’ve written a book, it is not actually a book yet until it becomes published. Not yet published [...]
