Writing Craft Books
In 2025, I hope to read or reread one writing craft book per month and add a review of it to this newsletter and to the curated, annotated bibliography available to my paid Substack subscribers.
I have finished The People’s Guide to Publishing by Joe Biel of Microcosm Publishing. But the volume of notes I have from the book will have to wait until another time to assemble.
If you have an interest in the nuts and bolts of publishing, and you want to understand how distribution and marketing really work, you must read Joe Biel’s book and I also recommend with multiple asterisks for emphasis, The Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities by Andy Laties.
Andy owns Book and Puppet Company, my local independent bookseller and he has always been a friend to Parisian Phoenix. To support Andy and buy his book (or any of his memoirs!), visit bookandpuppet.com.
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