Posts Tagged ‘ publishing misc ’

If:book Essay: You’re the Voice

If:book Australia is a think-and-do tank dedicated to promoting ‘new forms of digital literature’ and exploring ‘ways to boost connections between writers and audiences’, which is more exciting than I can fully express. They are associated with the Institute for the Future of the Book in New York, and if:book London, and are based at Queensland Writers’ [ READ MORE ]

Freetastic

I have about 9 mailboxes at work, one of which regularly receives email from this guy ben@sprint-mail.com. I think it’s spam, but it could be some r-tarded subscription whose use has long since worn out. Anyway, when I had nothing to do last week I had a flick through the shit he’s sent was really [ READ MORE ]

Trade Off

Can Publishers Set the Terms of Trade in the eBook Market[ READ MORE ]

The Author–Editor Relationship

A good book editor has to be capable of mentoring a person: after hacking at the fundamental structure of an author’s manuscript, an editor needs to be there to field questions, lend support and generally reassure the author their early work has not been one big, protracted period of self delusion and folly. A good editor [ READ MORE ]

Demystifying Rights

I had to do some quick research into ‘second and subsequent serial rights’ recently, and realised it might be worthwhile demystifying some of what I learnt – it’s such a minefield of ambiguity out there, it must be terrifying if you’ve finally got a book deal and then have to learn legalese when you get [ READ MORE ]

Lunchtime Thoughts on Editor Royalties

I don’t know about this one: ‘The Future for Book Editors: Royalties?’ In this article, Ann Patty (former Harcourt publisher from NYC) argues that editors should receive a royalty on profits because they do so much work on books and then get squat in the way of remuneration or recognition. I’ve rewritten books only for a [ READ MORE ]

PREpublished

Here’s an optimistic redefinition of what it means to be an ‘unpublished writer’: ‘Are you unpublished? No, I’m PREpublished’ on Samantha Hughes’ blog. [ READ MORE ]

Indepenwah? or, An Open Love Letter to Julia Gillard

I shook hands with Julia Gillard yesterday morning, and then wound up on the telly about it. She made a rousing speech, praising the values of hard work and education, and I came away feeling really inspired by it all. Like me, Julia was raised in a working class family in Adelaide, where she became inspired [ READ MORE ]

It’s Not All About the Money: Legitimising youth literature

An exciting opportunity has come up for young writers at one of Australia’s most prestigious platforms for the discussion of literature, ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. They are looking for five young bloggers to write about book culture on their new blog. I will certainly be applying, and I encourage other young book lovers [ READ MORE ]

Back to Book Making

  • December 15th, 2009
  • Posted in Life
  • By Ryan

In the same week that I gored myself, I accepted a job offer from Wakefield Press. I’m visiting Brisbane for Christmas, then I’ll be heading to Adelaide to resume a seat at my old desk, to make books full time again. I won’t be needing any presents this year. This may come as a surprise to [ READ MORE ]

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