All Blog Posts Tagged 'publishing' (126)

John Lescroart Interview

Mystery novelist John Lescroart joins us on Hook'em and Book'em to talk about his latest novel, Treasure Hunt, and his writing journey. This New York Times bestselling author's writing path was not a straight shot to the top.

Mark Young…

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Added by Mark Young on May 12, 2010 at 12:25am — No Comments

The Thirty-Page Labor

I haven’t been blogging the last few weeks because I have been working diligently on completing the rough draft of my next Mac Faraday Mystery, Old Loves Die Hard (working title) while recovering from my gallbladder surgery. Now comes the hard part. Revising and editing.

One of the most gratifying feelings in writing is finishing the first draft. It’s like child birth. There’s the pregnancy where everything comes together. Then there is the getting it out. That’s… Continue

Added by Lauren Carr on April 15, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Interview with Mitzi Szereto

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/interview-with-mitzi-szereto/

Added by Mitzi Szereto on April 14, 2010 at 9:52pm — No Comments

Self Publishing: Good or Evil?

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/self-publishing-good-or-evil/

Added by Mitzi Szereto on March 25, 2010 at 3:01am — No Comments

Novelist Brandilyn Collins

Novelist Brandilyn Collins tells about her latest novel Exposure, the long road to publication, and her book on writing, Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors.http://hookembookem.blogspot.com/

Added by Mark Young on March 16, 2010 at 11:19pm — 1 Comment

Not Quite a Dream Come True

(Also posted at One Bite at a Time)

Well, someone finally offered me a book contract, with an advance and everything. There were a few caveats.

Among the documents I received were instructions on what I should do to promote the book, all on my…

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Added by Dana King on March 4, 2010 at 11:48am — 7 Comments

The Writer's Life (A Case for the Humble Bin Man)

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/the-writers-life-a-case-for-the-humble-bin-man/

Added by Mitzi Szereto on February 25, 2010 at 11:37pm — No Comments

I Finally Get to Do Some Blatant Self-Promotion

I thought this day would never come, but I'm finally in the position to blatantly promote myself. My debut novel, "Cleansing Eden," will be published Nov. 4, 2010, by Shadow Line Press.

Don't buy one, buy 10! Read one and use nine for table coasters! Buy a crate of books and light it on fire! Buy 12 and throw 11 at your neighbor's cat!

If you're a fan of written words, you'll love "Cleansing Eden." It has 71,000 of them. If you like your words between covers, you're in for a… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on February 17, 2010 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Euro Bestsellers, UK-US Blockbusters

Crime writer Simon Beckett wrote a few days ago in The Guardian that he’d had no idea he was the best-selling British author in Europe until stats were released last month. Not surprising, because at home no one has a clue who he is.

The Sheffield-born writer of a series of novels about a forensic anthropologist (hard to define, but it involves a lot of descriptions…

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Added by Matt Rees on February 14, 2010 at 4:04am — 3 Comments

Clash of the Titans

This post may do nothing more than re-assert my ignorance. It won’t be the first time.

I have no dog in the Amazon-Macmillan pissing contest. I’m not published, and I’m not particularly hopeful about the prospects, so it doesn’t have much of an effect on me, other than potentially forcing me to buy books by Macmillan authors elsewhere. I have friends who are potentially effected by this, and I feel for them (John McFetridge must feel like Joe Bftsplk by now), but I have a little… Continue

Added by Dana King on February 2, 2010 at 9:27am — 29 Comments

Talking About Books

Met a friend for lunch yesterday for the express pleasure of talking about books, publishing, authors, reading, and writing. Some of you might have regular contact with others in the biz, but living in rural northern Michigan limits my opportunitites, and I'm lucky if I get to speak to someone who really knows the stresses of publishing once a month. I'm sure I bore my friends silly with talk of edits and pub dates, and many of them struggle to keep up with the argot.

But lunches… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on January 7, 2010 at 10:07pm — 1 Comment

Not a Clue

Wouldn't you like to just grab some people by the coat and tell them how it is?

"Why is it so long before you book comes out?"
I don't know.

"Will they release it in paperback?"
I don't know.

"When will it be available as an audiobook?"
I don't know.

"Why don't you tell them you want...(any of the above) done differently?"
That I know. Because my name is not Nora Roberts.

Added by Peg Herring on December 31, 2009 at 10:38pm — No Comments

Formatting, the Dreaded Art

I'm a recovering English teacher, so I know the basics. Still, every publisher has a formatting guide, and NONE of them agree on how one must submit work. So, no matter how carefully an author sets up a MS, there's a point where she must go back and "fix" the things the publisher wants done another way. To quote Robert Frost, "It couldn't be called ungentle, but how thoroughly departmental."

Ellipsis: space before and space after, or no?

Quotation marks around a phrase at the… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on December 30, 2009 at 9:49pm — 3 Comments

Setting up an author blog

Because I’m such a hip and happening author, I’m redoing my blog. Actually, I’m not redoing it. My friend Harry’s doing it. He’s hip and happening (check out his photo and wish for his cool, Daddy-O). The point of the blog is to make me LOOK that way.

Until now I’ve mused about the writing of my books, my book tours and research, about the world of… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on December 24, 2009 at 11:02pm — No Comments

Raising the Dead - Part 1 and Part 2

Raising the Dead Manuscript from Its Grave Part 1

by Robert W. Walker

I published myself after a lifetime of eschewing any sort of vanity press. And I did it using a “dead” manuscript about a “dead” subject filled with “dead” historical characters in a “dead” time period which one editor, a true pro, said of: “It is the hardest time period to write about, to make come alive, and especially to display any sort of sexual encounter, but in your hands Rob, if anyone can pull it off,… Continue

Added by robert walker on November 7, 2009 at 12:07am — No Comments

Coming Event -- You are all invited!

I've been asked to guest-host an hour of #LitChat, the popular and fun writers' chat group that runs from 4-5:00 Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Twitter.

I'll be there on Friday, November 6 at 4:00 EST. It would be a real thrill to see some of my CrimeSpace friends there to offer support (or even good-natured razzing!)

The topic that week will be the process of self-publishing -- the hurdles and… Continue

Added by Donna Carrick on October 27, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

Worth a Read

Over at Editorial Ass, Moonrat has posted a compilation of her blogs about publishing, editing, agents, and other items of interest. Well worth reading.

Added by Dana King on October 7, 2009 at 4:36am — 1 Comment

Acknowledge no one

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog:

Authors are posturing, self-aggrandizing assholes. At least, that’s the conclusion I’ve reached after noting the trend for excessive “Acknowledgements” growing like mold over page on page of nonfiction books. These days they’re spreading their blight all over novels, too.

Here’s how I think it breaks down.

More than a few… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on September 3, 2009 at 11:36pm — 5 Comments

From Zero to Sixty in One ARC

My ARC's for HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER arrived yesterday afternoon, and suddenly life is teeming with things to do.

First, here's what it could mean to you. It's a Tudor mystery focusing on Princess Elizabeth during Henry's last year of life. If you'd like a copy of the ARC, make a comment on this blog ("Hi Peg I want the book" is good enough, or you can actually read something and respond.) One week from today (Friday, September 4) I'll put the names of everyone who has commented… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on August 28, 2009 at 10:33pm — 5 Comments

My bogus bio

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog:

Since you’re reading this, you don’t care who I am. So I can be anyone I like. At least, that’s what somebody wrote here recently.

I posted on this blog a couple of weeks ago about Dashiell Hammett. I noted that, while a university literature student, I grew tired of all the post- structuralist and deconstructionist and Marxist esoterica I… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 27, 2009 at 4:13pm — 4 Comments