Posts Tagged Publishing
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 [...]
From Flying along to building your Anthill
Posted by Leticia in Books, Publishing on August 21st, 2009
Yes, it’s true: authors are businesses too. So, for something completely different, here’s a blog about business-y sorts of things. It has been sparked by my reading of two different websites online: Flying Solo and Australian Anthill Magazine. I’ve been reading posts at Flying Solo – Australia’s website for what they call ‘solopreneurs’, despite Brascoe [...]
Digital Rights Management = cartelisation? Good question.
Posted by Leticia in Books, Publishing on August 12th, 2009
The word ‘cartel’ is so old-school that it seems almost strange to be digging it up out of the lexicon and applying it to digital books. But that’s exactly what I’m going to do, to illustrate the point that ebooks, by dint of DRM, are priced disgustingly high. In recent conversations on Twitter, in which [...]
Free resources on writing-related topics
Posted by Leticia in Publishing, Readers, Writing on July 29th, 2009
We haven’t provided any dedicated free resources for quite some time – not since before May, if I’m thinking correctly. Having sat down and thought long and hard about this, we’ve decided that this is because we’re doing it too formally. So we’re going to blog them instead. Starting with our backlog of present resources, [...]
