Continuing the topic of the previous post: Stephany Aulenback received an email from a bookseller who explains some issues with print-on-demand. You can read the full text there, and if you’ve an interest in books and publishing you should, because it’s a well-written and interesting letter. But I’d like to focus on one aspect, which …
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Friday morning mini-rant: the state of publishing
Stephany Aulenback wonders when electronic books and print-on-demand will come into their own. I think e-books are waiting for the right delivery mechanism, devices that are easier to read from than the tiny screens on PDAs. But I don’t see any such holdup for print on demand — the hurdles seem to be in people, …
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Juicy
The launch of my new venture has taken most of my time lately. It is Fat Plum: We’re beginning by offering workshops, private consultations on writing and publishing, manuscript reviews and edits, and so on. Soon we’ll expand into writer-focused products. And then we’ll start publishing books and other cool stuff. We have very grand …
Swank Swink
The first issue of Swink arrived in my mailbox today, apparently ahead of the issue’s debut in bookstores. Coincidentally, the mag is also featured in today’s PW Newsline (a daily email from Publisher’s Weekly) under the topic “The New New Literary Magazine.” Founder Leelila Strogov is quoted describing the intended readership: “There are many magazines …
Drinks of the week: Gimlet and Algebra
Two drinks for this week, one for each of my sisters…. For Laura, whose birthday is today, a classic drink to which she introduced me years ago in San Francisco. GIMLET 1 part Rose’s lime juice 5 parts gin Fil shaker two-thirds full with ice. Put in lime juice, then gin. Stir or shake well. …
Dancing as fast as I can
To any would-be Inkburns contributors, Inkburns writers waiting for contracts, neglected clients, and abandoned friends who are reading this blog to discover clues as to why you have not received a response to your submission/contract/query-about-your-web-update/email of several weeks ago: I am truly sorry. Things are just nutsy busy here. I hope to get to your …
I could tell you a story that could make you cry
I’m pretty sure every fan in the world knows more about the Pixies reunion tour than I do. Shows are
And you thought you were unhappy before…
The anonymous midlist author who shared her story on Salon this week gets not a smidge of sympathy from other authors, from publishers, from book sellers … ok, you get the point.
In a New York state of mind
Tremble has been on a roll lately. Of course, last night he did a reading at the “Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions” so we shouldn’t expect anything new today or perhaps tomorrow. But there’s much to enjoy with the recent posts. I had the good fortune to be in NYC in September on a …
Everyone’s a wallflower sometime
Pittsburgh has a bustling literary scene. This is unexpected, I realize, but true. Even the Post-Gazette says so. I haven’t made it to any of the events Bob Hoover mentions in the article — been trying to get to the Slaughterhouse for Choice Cuts for some time but events have conspired against me. However, I’ve …