Category: from the publisher
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Sometimes you can be silly
People often come in and out of other people’s lives. Good friendships can be fluid, picking up where they left off or drifting apart only to reconnect later. Good friendships can form over mistakes, and my connection with Darnell Davis, the co-founder of ASPIRE to Autonomy and host of the…
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Book clubs and beers
I have a lot on my plate these days– as a publisher, as an editor, as an unemployed person and a mom. I try to live my life with honesty and transparency because we, as American citizens, hide too many of our struggles and our fears. Being a creative person…
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A day in the [publisher of a small craft press] life
Saturday, 7 a.m.: Wake and roll out of bed. Attend to animals, daughter, medication and coffee. I file more business paperwork. 8 a.m.: Check IngramSpark (no sales to note), review Amazon rankings, review Substack and social media analytics. I answer emails, of course. And organize and delete the onslaught of…
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Food, Academia and Television
Since I’m unemployed, I decided to join my local public library’s book club. The adult services librarian sent me the book list, and I ordered The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton from The Parisian Phoenix Storefront at Bookshop.org. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. on October…
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Thoughts on Disability as DEI
I mentioned in a previous post that we did not reach the finals of the Independent Book Publisher Association’s Innovative Voices Fellowship. The finalists included I believe 20 different publishers, all with either BIPOC or LGTBQIA+ voices. No one among them had a disability. The five winners were announced, and…
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Writing Books that Inspire Us
Perhaps “Writing Books that Inspire Us” is not the right title for this one, but “writing books that inspire me” sounds so pretentious. If you’re a regular around here, you might want to skip to the next paragraph as I’m going to cover some basic information you already know. I…
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Writing Dirty Word hits a #1
I’ll keep it brief, but Ralph Greco Jr.’s Writing Dirty Words has hit #1 in Amazon’s hot new releases in the erotica fiction writing reference niche. What I find hysterical is that the #3 title came out two weeks before Ralph’s book and it sounds like the same book but…
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How to create an imprint in Bowker
This is a short one, I’m putting it out there because someone might need it. If you are an indie or self-published author who tuned into the Alliance of Independent Authors Q&A beginners podcast this month, hoping to learn how to file your Bowker ISBNs into imprints within your publishing…
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