There are many steps and various parties involved when you want your book to reach the marketplace. These parties are book agents, book distributors, publishers, wholesalers, and retailers and others who help you with various formal and informal aspects of book marketing.

Book distributors act as the connecting link between book publishers and retailers. Retailers could be libraries,…

It's official: I'm self-publishing. The Vesuvius Isotope will be published by my brand new sole proprietorship, Murder Lab Press, and the publishers who have shown interest in the manuscript have been notified. Since I have just gone through the trials of tribulations…

Friday, April 12, 2013

Interview of Fireflies author P. S. Bartlett

This spring, as I count the days until April 16 when my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons is published, GMTA Publishing has released Fireflies by P. S. Bartlett. 

P. S. Barlett’s …

Well in the latest Nook News - PubIt! by Barnes and Noble, I received this in my e-mail since I am a publisher through PubIt!

Dear Publisher,



Over the past two and a half years, our working partnership has made PubIt! a resounding success. Because of PubIt! publishers like you, we've been able to offer millions of NOOK® customers…

A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

By Glynis Ridley

Crown Publishing Group, Random House 291 pgs

978-0-307-46353-1

Rating: 4 - Read This Book!

Jeanne Baret was an 18th century woman, lover, wife, mother, herb woman, botanist, sailor, adventurer, administrator and sometime cross-dresser. Think about that for a minute. Baret was born a French peasant in 1740, a woman who typically would never travel more…

A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel

By Taylor Stevens

Crown Publishers, 331 pgs

978-0-307-71712-2

Rating: 2.5

Vanessa Michael Munroe is back in the follow-up to her debut performance in The Informationist, which I reviewed in December of last year. The mission she is hired for this time is to rescue a child from a cult and return her to her parents. Michael, as she is known, travels to Argentina, last known location for the girl, and sets about…

(Poems)

By Ethan Coen

Broadway Paperbacks, 121 pgs

978-0-307-95630-9

Rating: 2

The Day the World Ends (Poems) is a thin (literally and figuratively) collection of poetry brought to us by Ethan Coen, celebrated writer of screenplays for movies such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona. What most of us don't know is that Mr. Coen has also published volumes of short stories and poems such as Gates of…

By Nichole Bernier

Crown/Random House, 309 pgs

978-0-307-88780-1

Rating: 5

"Kate lowered her nose to Emily's head and breathed in Johnson's baby shampoo, a hormonal cocktail that among women who have children not long out of diapers drew the Pavlovian, Another." There, there. Is that not the most beautiful sentence you have ever read? If not then please leave me a comment with your contender because I have to read that book now. I read…

a tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Bee Keepers, Wine Makers, and Brewers Who Built New York

By Robin Shulman

Crown Publishers (Random House), 335 pgs

978-0-307-71905-8

Rating: 4

"Go on bite the big apple..." Richards and Jagger warned us. I always took…

Relentless promotion is the cross that any author must bear. Whether we want to or not and despite if we are signed to an agent or a major publishing company. Writing the book is only a small portion of the battle given the 4 stages of publishing a book: Creation, Production, Distribution, and the big one:…

I’d like to submit a few syllables on the subject of using real events and/or people in fiction as opposed to creating everything out of thin air.

Just recently I read a blog that discussed this subject and it reminded me that not too many years ago I was having difficulty with this very thing.

For a long time I had it in my dense little head that fiction, by definition, should be fiction. I strove for that to no avail.…

Darcy Lemarsh is pretty much a loser, an aimless young man currently working at a so-so painter. About all he has going for him is a nearly photographic memory. When he hooks up with hot waitress Angela Berry in the Owl, he thinks he's doing pretty well. Of course at the time, Darcy never dreams that the wiring in Angie's head wasn't installed by a licensed electrician.

Through Angie, Darcy meets her elderly grandfather, Professor Jason Berry, a likable but hopeless old drunk who goes…

Kimberly Dana’s latest book will bring hours of reading pleasure to teen girls, especially those with a particular interest in cheerleading.

Years ago, a murder was committed in a cheerleading camp: a beautiful teenager with beautiful red flowing hair was drowned in the lake. Rumors say the killer was her best friend.

Now, ten years later, our witty…

On April 16, I signed a contract with Silver Knight Publishing for my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons.

That book felt “meant to be” from the first.  The conception of books is a subject that mystifies.  The Wide Awake Loonsis the only book that I planned in my head before writing…

Building Your Own Green House by Craig Baird

Atlantic Publishing,…

In this book, Kelly Smith makes composting accessible to anyone who is interesting. From indoor systems for those who live in apartments or condominiums to larger systems for those who want large amounts of healthy fertilizer for gardens, you can find the answers you need by reading the book.

The contents…