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Three members of the Swedish Academy – the prestigious body that hands out the Nobel Prize in Literature – stepped down on Friday in a move that shocked the literature world.
The growth of hybrid publishing and the diversity of voices independent presses bring to publishing were among the topics at this year's IBPA Publishing University.
From Publishers Weekly.
The growth of hybrid publishing, the business model where authors subsidize the publication of their books, was one of the major points of discussion at the Independent Book Publishers Association’s (IBPA) Publishing University held April 6-7 in Austin, Tex. The event was a sellout with 300 publishers of all stripes—traditional independent publishers, hybrid publishers, and self-published authors—in attendance.
The more than 30 educational panels covered a range of topics with titles like “Content Development: Cross Platform Storytelling for Independent Authors and Publishers” (presented by Exit Strategy New Media’s Zack Lieberman) and “10 Trends Shaping the Future of Indie Publishing”(presented by Smashwords’ Jim Azevedo).
One session featured three women who have developed successful hybrid publishing companies. To help ensure the professionalism of hybrid publishers, IBPA recently created a list of standards that publishers must meet if they are to be considered in the category. All three panelists stressed the importance of adhering to these standards. To meet criteria, publishers must vet submissions, take responsibility for the design and editing of the book, offer active distribution, and attain respectable sales.
Brooke Warner, publisher of the hybrid house She Writes Press, was involved in developing the criteria. She explained on the hybrid panel that while “respectable sales” was a fuzzy term, hybrid publishers must work to achieve sales levels that are appropriate for whatever type of book they are publishing. Sales of a poetry book, for example, would not be expected to achieve the sales level of a popular mystery.
Warner stressed that while She Writes is paid up front, her company is heavily invested in selling its authors’ books because its reputation is tied to the success of its titles. “We need to demonstrate we can get sales,” she said. We want the industry to be impressed by these books.“ In addition, while the authors earn at least 50% of royalties under the hybrid model, She Writes also receives a cut.
Maggie Langrick founded LifeTree Media, in Vancouver, after leaving her job as a features editor at a newspaper. She said that for hybrid publishers to be respected "it is critical to establish quality standards.” She has published 13 books in the four years the company has been in business, and expects to release between eight and 10 titles this year.
Gail Woodward, founder of Dudley Court Press, focuses her company’s titles around people who have a message they want to deliver. Last May, Dudley Court released Yoga for Pain Relief: A New Approach to an Ancient Practice by Lee Albert. The author is regarded as an expert in in neuromuscular pain relief and the book, she said, has done well. Sales of the title got a major boost in March, when Albert was featured on the PBS special Pain-Free Living Survival Guide.
Read the complete article here at Publishers Weekly.
Sara avoided her eye, instead staring down at the journal in her lap. Her dark blonde hair cascaded in gentle waves over the shoulders of her dress, the locks tamed only by matching green ribbons and hair clips shaped like butterflies.
The angry furrow in Sara’s brow stood in direct conflict to the butterflies’ cheerfulness. “That was rude, Shaun.” Her fingers crimped the journal’s corners. “You should not have come tonight.”
“I needed to talk to you.” Shaun quickly smoothed back the strands of hair trying to fall in her eyes.
“I thought—” Sara paused, but then she seemed to think better of what she was about to say.
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there r literally no books that have a lesbian main character???? or even mlm ones that aren’t like ‘oh gosh I’m so gay it makes life hard’ like ok great I just want normal queer romance??? where are my trans people?? bi ppl??? any rep for them??? normalize queer 2k17
It’s why I write the characters I do. Because we need people in our books who are like us.
I have a few books in the epic fantasy Cathell series that follow a lesbian main character: Thystle Moran.
The Taming - https://www.books2read.com/u/4jwz22
Shadowboxer - https://www.books2read.com/u/bwWxxO
Thystle also pops up in the first book in the series, Into the Darkness.
The first part of Book 1 in the Fall of Kingdoms series also follows a lesbian main character: Shaun Grayson. She’s an apprentice knight thrown into the deep end of battle when her kingdom is attacked and she’s charged with the safety of the king’s youngest daughter.
Corruption of Honor - https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJpAx
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
If anyone tries to tell you that Shakespeare is stuffy or boring or highbrow, just remember that the word “nothing” was used in Elizabethan era slang as a euphemism for “vagina”.
Shakespeare has a play called “Much Ado About Nothing”, which you could basically read in modern slang as “Freaking Out Over Pussy”. And that’s pretty much exactly what happens in the play.
It’s also a pun with a third meaning. There’s the sex sense of much ado about “nothing”, there’s the obvious sense that people today see, and then there’s the fact that in Shakespeare’s day, “nothing” was pronounced pretty much the same as “noting”, which was a term used for gossip. So, “Flamewar Over Rumors” works as a title interpretation, too.
The reason we call Shakespeare a genius is that he can make a pussy joke in the same exact words he uses to make biting social commentary about letting unverified gossip take over the discourse.
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