publishing misstep | publishing misstep
Aug.05.2009
I’ve been extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with a great group of people at the small press that published my Sam Harper Crime Mysteries. Both my books received great reviews and notable recognition. Although the good certainly outweighs the bad, the one thing I regret most...
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Aug.04.2009
My publisher's editor left or was fired in the middle of editing my book, Write In Style. Even though I am an editor, no one can edit his or her own work. It's terribly embarrassing to find an error in your own book when you are an editor, but one or two glitches slipped through because a new ...
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Jul.31.2009
My novel, STARVING HEARTS was accepted by Robert Reed back in 2000. He did and still does vanity publishing but because he liked my writing and liked ME (don't fool yourself, people, it isn't always your talent that swings the pendulum your way) He agreed to design the cover, format the...
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Jul.31.2009
Lordy! There were missteps galore with my first book How To Be A Party Girl, beginning with the title. Misstep? No, it was more like Bigfoot throwing a bolder from the top of the Empire State building and hitting me directly in the chest. Frank Taylor and Sam Stewart at McGraw Hill loved the...
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Jul.31.2009
RR: "What was a misstep that you (or your publisher) made with publishing your first book--and how would you do things differently?"
DS: Yes, it's a popular topic for authors... and the adage is, "don't judge a book by it's cover"... but it's true... people do judge a...
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Jul.31.2009
I love the concept of everyone blogging on the same topic at the same time -- and I'm very much looking forward to learning what I can from other people's mishaps in the publications of their first books. Is that wrong?
The topic of the day is pretty intimidating for me. My first book on a big...
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Jul.31.2009
The big mistake with my first book was writing it. Forty years later it is still in contention for the Worst Book Ever Published award. But I needed the money. And what the heck, with three small children and a husband who was more interested in booze than in holding down a job, a book contract...
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Jul.31.2009
My first book of original epigrams, I Thought So, is lacking an index. The epigrams are arranged in chapters -- Manners, Attitude, Life, Death, etc. Indexing seemed unnecessary to this novice. But many of my miniature essays cross these neat boundaries, and believe it or not, and I'm sure you will...
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Jul.30.2009
[First of all, I’m really excited about the new Red Room-wide blog topics we’ll be announcing each week! The first one is: “What was a misstep that you or your publisher made with publishing your first book--and how would you do things differently if you could?” If you want to be considered by our...
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Jul.30.2009
It was the early 1980s. I was young and hungry and vulnerable and putting myself through six years of university without financial help beyond that which I could do for myself. It was the second semester of my four-semester M.B.A. program, and I was invited to work for the chair of the marketing...
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