Okay, I snapped.  A couple of months ago, I labored over a long, intense, and (dare I say it?) insightful and erudite post on the Wolfmont Press and Honey Locust Press blog.  Serendipity, the platform you are reading now, decided it didn't like it and dumped it totally without any warning.ZAP! No recovery available, so sorry.I raged against the machin […]

The last article was about how some terms get thrown around carelessly when authors, publishers and booksellers get together, and those terms become confusing. The article covered “traditional publishing,â€� a misnomer; commercial publishing; and print-on-demand (POD) which is actually a printing technology that has spawned a new business model, rather tha […]

There is a great deal of misinformation floating around about the way books are published. Authors and many others throw around terms like “POD publisher,â€� “traditional publisher,â€� and “self-publishedâ€� with lack of understanding of what terms really mean. Sadly enough, some magazines, bloggers and others pick up on the common and incorrect defini […]

If you are like most people, when you were a kid you went to a public school.  And during that thirteen years or so, you probably had to be absent for one reason or another, and to avoid censure and punishment by the school authorities, you had to take in a written excuse for that absence.  Maybe it was from a parent or guardian, maybe it was from a doctor […]

On one of the discussion lists I frequent, we have been talking about book sales, and conversation migrated to who (large publishing houses or smaller publishing houses) sold the most books in aggregate.  Now I KNOW that Simon & Schuster sell more books than my two imprints, so that's not the point.  It's about whether or not the small and in […]