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Category Archives: Book Publishing or Selling
Face-to-Face Time in Old-Style Publishing
My posting on June 1 was titled “Good Feelings from Groups.” Soon after posting it, while searching for a document on a wholly different subject, I unearthed a business plan I’d written in the late 1990s for my publishing company … Continue reading
Book Marketing, Part 1
[Apologies for the drought in postings this past week. I was on the road, and I’m not accomplished enough yet to compose and upload from my smartphone. This will happen one more time in May, but then the summer looms … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling
Tagged author, BEA, Book Expo America, books, marketing, Penguin Young Readers Group, Publishers Lunch Deluxe, publishing, Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye, Whoopie Pie, writer, YA, young adult
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Book Trailer – Demon Fish
I’m a scuba diver, now and then. Each time it takes a few days to get comfortable again with the equipment and equilibrium, but the underwater world never fails to refresh and astound. Every now and then I get to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Books and Authors
Tagged book trailer, books, cover design, Demon Fish, hammerhead, Juliet Eilperin, nonfiction, Pantheon, reef shark, scuba diving, shark fin, sharks, Shelf Awareness, trailer
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V&B’s Current Owner = New Friend
VanderWyk & Burnham (V&B) is the name of the tradebook publishing company I founded in 1994 and sold in 2009. Its mission statement was to publish books that promote learning, compassion, and self-reliance and make a difference in people’s lives. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Ruminations
Tagged Angie Quick, business, Facebook, friend, mission statement, publisher, publishing, tradebook, V&B, VanderWyk & Burnham
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Borders Group Gets Chance to Reorganize
Article first published as Borders Group Gets Chance to Reorganize on Blogcritics. On April 27, 2011, United States Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn, the judge on the Borders Group bankruptcy case, wrote a memo. Actually, it was an Opinion. It … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Ruminations
Tagged bankruptcy, bookstore, Borders Group, business, company, employee incentive, employee retention, employees, judge, managers, Martin Glenn, money, reorganization
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Adam Davies, Hard at Work and Loving It
Yesterday I bought another book at Bookstore1Sarasota in order to have the author sign it after his appearance there from 6-7:00 pm. I bought Mine All Mine. I would have bought his book Goodbye Lemon as well, because I love … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Books and Authors
Tagged Adam Davies, Amazon, books, bookselling, bookstore signing, Bookstore1Sarasota, cashier, creative writing, employee, Goodbye Lemon, Mine All Mine, New College of Florida, New York City, novel, Penguin Books, publisher, publishing, reading, Riverhead Trade, The Frog King, work, writer-in-residence
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Final Manuscript as an Accomplishment and a Gift
Article first published as Final Manuscript as an Accomplishment and a Gift on Blogcritics. Here’s something I miss from my early days in the book-publishing world. I miss the symbolism and camaraderie that was inherent in the way a final-edited manuscript … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Ruminations
Tagged camaraderie, editor, manuscript, publishing, ribbon, secretary, symbolism, teamwork
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It’s Not Like Selling Beer
My head was nodding vigorously in agreement when I first read the following quotation in a Shelf Awareness e-newsletter. It’s an excerpted portion of an interview with author Margaret Atwood. After the quotation, click on the link provided if you … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling
Tagged beer, business, Margaret Atwood, publisher, selling
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Time Management
For a good portion of my career in publishing (and I know this is the same for many of you), I had to operate in a put-the-fires-out style of time management. My job depended on being able to switch gears … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Ruminations, Writing
Tagged career, job, time management, writing
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