Following on from a posting we did earlier this week on Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro – the possibilities ebooks can provide for enhanced interaction between author and reader – the reclusive and complexed American novelist Thomas Pynchon has just disclosed the ‘soundtrack’ to his lastest novel, Inherent Vice. Inherent Vice…
Self-Publishing Successes From Outskirts Press
Karl Schroeder, Manager of Author Services at Outskirts Press has much to champion this week. His blog puts the spotlight on Outskirts Press as well as Stephen R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, who chose to forgo the traditional route of publishing in favour of an author service company to…
Book Sales in Ireland – Eoin Purcell’s Poll
Eoin Purcell is carrying out an interesting poll over on his blog and asks the question, ‘…what people in Ireland THINK about success is in terms of booksales?’ It is certainly a pertinent question not just for Irish authors but authors and publishers operating in any book market or country. As Eoin points out, pair…
Publishing Basics Returns From Summer Hiatus
After a hiatus of six weeks or so, Publishing Basics Monthly Newsletter returns with some excellent articles this month on book cover design, ‘why you should not self-publish’, marketing your book on a limited budget and a lot more. “The vanity press industry, headed by companies like Author House, Publish America and the likes, have…
Lulu Through The Looking Glass
Lulu Lens was set up as an interactive forum for feedback from Lulu authors. While understandably, Lulu pitch this feedback forum as a means for them to improve their overall services—there is no doubt much of the impetus is to address a number of issues highlighted by authors in their own Lulu discussion forum as…
The Experience of Ebooks – Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro
The Guardian UK had an article on Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, written by Sam Leith. Cave’s new novel has an advance release on the iPhone ahead of the print version and the enhanced electronic version has some new options that give us a tantalising glimpse of what the future of…
Will Atkins Discusses Macmillan New Writing
Editor, Will Atkins, over on Jane Smith’s excellent How Publishing Really works discusses Pan Macmillan’s imprint, Macmillan New Writing and the approach and publishing philosophy behind it. […]”Macmillan New Writing is now an integral, and pretty uncontroversial, part of Pan Macmillan, and operates in the same way as the other imprints here, using the same…
The Publishing Industry Game of Pass The Parcel
There is a short posting today on the Writers’ & Artists’ newly revamped website which we looked at two days ago. Cressida Downing, an editorial consultant, looks at literary agents approach to promising works submitted to them. “I have seen a few comments on here from aspiring authors who have been advised to use an…
Poetry In Motion – Doom & Gloom (me arse!!) by Enda Murray
Earlier this year we covered the story of David Jones and how being made redundant inspired him to write and self-publish a help and resource book for other people made redundant. Well, another author, Enda Murray, from Longford, Ireland did something very similar. Enda wrote poetry for many years with a quirky, funny and irreverent…
Bookbrunch Article by Trevor Dolby – ‘Time to rethink contracts’
Over on BookBrunch, Trevor Dolby has written an article entitled, Time to rethink contracts. It looks at the publishing industry and makes some interesting and witty comparisons with the model of the music industry. He poses the dilemma that we have reached the time of a more equitable contract between author and publisher, with the…