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It’s an exciting day!
I just got word yesterday that one of our clients, a PhD student with whom we have been working on and off over the past year, has had her thesis passed, and that she is to graduate in April this year. It might not sound like a big deal, but it is! We were brought [...]
The emotional task of editing
It’s one thing that many people may not often think about, but editing a book – especially a diary or memoir – can be a really emotional, taxing task. I was reminded of this just last night when I started to get my teeth into a new project. The project itself is a manuscript that [...]
7 simple steps: how not to get employed by a publisher
Posted by Leticia in Books, Editing, Publishing, Resources & How-Tos on December 3rd, 2009
In the past three months, we here at Brascoe Publishing have had a lot of requests for work. A lot of really bad ones. So many, in fact, that we thought it was high time to post a blog about it. Here is how you avoid getting a job with a publisher. 1. Forget that [...]
8 examples of poor advertising copy
Here is a sample from our latest direct marketing campaign. We’re rather proud of it, so we thought we’d share it. It is much better viewed full-screen size. Feel free to leave us a comment! If you like it, please tweet it, facebook it, email it, or otherwise share it with people you know. Open [...]
Interesting publishing-related links… from Twitter
Posted by Leticia in Books, Editing, Publishing on August 10th, 2009
Given that we tweet quite a bit on Twitter and, more’s the point, tweet out stacks of interesting links every week, we figured that it’s about time we compiled a few of them. Here they are – enjoy! Prisoners Plagiarise Famous Poems http://bit.ly/2g53ip Cover art is a marketing tool but without thought it can go [...]
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