The release of Paper Covers Rock and Triplicity: Poems in Threes, Indigo Ink’s first flip-edition poetry chapbook, will be celebrated with a reading of poems from the collection on Friday, Oct….
Gimmicky? Maybe. Should good writing stand on its own merit, or should we welcome the opportunity to accessorize it and up the ante?
Good writing + Cool Bonus Content = Winning Package for the New Literati?
All I’m saying is that there’s a reason why you can’t help but buy the special edition, bonus-feature-packed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD+Blu-Ray.Even when you know you won’t look at half the stuff on the three bonus discs.
With tags and QR codes and whatever is coming next; with video content and the complete saturation of iPads, tablets and smartphones, what’s the downside? Are we compromising the integrity of literature?
Give the people what they want, in strategic moderation, says this publisher.
We’ve selected the authors for our first poetry chapbook! Yay!
Because the contracts are still pending, I’ll withhold the names for now, but trust me when I say that the two women featured in our upcoming chapbook are truly talented poetresses. It’s a DUAL chapbook, meaning that it will feature two full-fledged collections in one edition. Cool, huh?
We’re finalizing the contract now. We have an excellent attorney (little shout out to John Kaminski and Day Ketterer), but if you’re looking for some inspiration in the book publishing contract department, check out the following articles and insights about contracts at Publishing Central.
You can also get an overview of all the mandatory inclusions (what goes into a book publishing contract) and how to hone your negotiating prowess here.
Also - for any first time author reading this, there are quite a few resources online to help you navigate your book contract. Start by reaching out to fellow writers on various writers sites.
Stay tuned for the announcement of our authors and a sample from their chapbooks.
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…which leads me to today. This is my first real post on my new Tumblr blog. And these themes represent a greater life pattern, a pattern which leads me to how I know I’m destined for publishing {not writing}.
Case in point: I’ve spent the better part of today {+last night} tinkering with the design of my Tumblr blog, setting up feedburner and adding GA, then worrying about the limited SEO capabilities of Tumblr {as opposed to say, Wordpress, my usual CMS go-to.}
Yep… too much marketer in my blood to cut it as a full-blooded writer.
So I’m a busybody, obsessive, workaholic, giant aspiration-having marketer with a love of great writing. Guess that’s about what you’d want in your publisher, right?
