unwrapping:

How Authors Should Use Tumblr:
A Five-step Guide by Tumblr’s Rachel Fershleiser (from GalleyCat’s Jason Boog: “What Writers Need To Know About Tumblr”)

6. Make me fancy gifs so I’ll love you forever!

HOW TO TUMBLR

Tagged: writing books tumblr publishing

Posted on April 8, 2013 via Unwrapping Tumblr: Tips, Tutorials & News with 611 notes

Source: mediabistro.com

Some writers will choose to fill the agent position themselves, instead of hiring from outside the firm, so to speak, but savvy writers will have noted that the chances of landing a great publishing contract goes up if they hire an expert, a sales specialist, to handle the part of the transaction.

Maureen McGowan, author of Deviants (Amazon Children’s Publishing, October 2012)

The Agent Search – Another Perspective

Tagged: maureen mcgowan publishing deviants agents

Posted on January 8, 2013 with 3 notes

Source: chicklitwriters.com

@01FirstSecond’s Gina Gagliano gives a peek behind the curtains of the book acquisitions process.

(via The Acquisition Process | First Second Books)

Tagged: how books are made publishing First Second

Posted on September 27, 2012

Source: firstsecondbooks.com

A short, short story about short stories.
rachelfershleiser:

Tom is on Tumblr! WOOOOOOO!

A short, short story about short stories.

rachelfershleiser:

Tom is on Tumblr! WOOOOOOO!

Tagged: comics short stories publishing

Posted on May 29, 2012 via YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK with 2,060 notes

Source: myjetpack

A simple, maddening flowchart about how books are born.

(via how a book is born (because you kids love the infographics) | Weldon Owen)

Tagged: publishing lulz

Posted on May 16, 2012 with 1 note

Source: weldonowen.com

When it comes to choosing excerpts, as in life, choose sex over death.

Publicist Lauren Cerand, on readings

Tagged: publishing books book tours reading

Posted on April 10, 2012 with 3 notes

Source: The Awl

The future of Publishing.
nevver:

The Book of the Future

The future of Publishing.

nevver:

The Book of the Future

Tagged: books publishing lulz

Posted on April 1, 2012 via this isn't happiness. with 2,437 notes

E-book–E stands for everyone, as in everyone now will think they can write a book…Graphic novel–a comic book that went to college…Rejection–a necessary evil, unless it involves my manuscript, then it is a totally unnecessary wrong.

Zing!

A Publishing Industry Glossary « SHELLS

Tagged: Publishing

Posted on June 22, 2011 with 1 note

Source: armchairshotgun.wordpress.com

WImpy Kid 6 announced: “Cabin Fever” gets 6 million first printing | The Beat

Holy cow, that’s huge. Well played, Abrams!

Tagged: publishing

Posted on June 16, 2011

Stat from BEA: 7% of books published generate 87% of book sales. And 93% of all published books sell less than 1,000 copies each.

Writer’s Digest publisherJane Friedman

Tagged: publishing

Posted on May 28, 2010

Source: comicsbeat.com

Comics is People

Some writers will choose to fill the agent position themselves, instead of hiring from outside the firm, so to speak, but savvy writers will have noted that the chances of landing a great publishing contract goes up if they hire an expert, a sales specialist, to handle the part of the transaction.

When it comes to choosing excerpts, as in life, choose sex over death.

E-book–E stands for everyone, as in everyone now will think they can write a book…Graphic novel–a comic book that went to college…Rejection–a necessary evil, unless it involves my manuscript, then it is a totally unnecessary wrong.

WImpy Kid 6 announced: “Cabin Fever” gets 6 million first printing | The Beat

Stat from BEA: 7% of books published generate 87% of book sales. And 93% of all published books sell less than 1,000 copies each.