Former guests and friends of the Hybrid Pub Scout podcast contribute their book publishing insights to our blog.
Sure, writing can be a lonely pursuit. As someone who spends my days writing, I am alone most of the time. Sometimes I get so in my head that I accidentally run into household objects or forget what I’m talking about mid-sentence. If you spend a lot of time writing, you’ve got to get out … Read more
In a recent consultation, a client asked me a shrewd question: What is the main thing you see authors do that delays publication? In publishing, there are many places where a project can stall. That shouldn’t be too big of a shock if you’ve worked in any industry where a project passes through multiple sets … Read more
Let’s get this out of the way first—I know a book doesn’t die once it is published. The end of production is the beginning of an entirely new life of promoting and selling it. However, I’m a production person, and once I’m done with posting that book online, my work is mostly done, except, of … Read more
You may have noticed in the signature area of my email address, or in my bio on this website, that I have the pronouns “they/them” featured along with my name. You may or may not have colleagues, friends, or family members who use they/them pronouns. (In fact, you probably do, and you might not know … Read more
A detailed description of my process for transforming an author’s knowledge and ideas into a fully formed book A lot more goes into publishing a book than writing it. Usually, we call the finished product of an author’s labor a manuscript, because the production tasks that make it an actual book haven’t yet taken place. … Read more
Listen to Episode 59 with Jessie Kwak, author of From Chaos to Creativity and From Big Idea to Book. When I found out that Jessie Kwak released a new book on writing books, I decided to order it straight from the source at Microcosm Publishing. From Chaos to Creativity serves as such an effective manual, … Read more
Some say that everyone has a book in them. The more cynical say psshaw, no they don’t. A lot of that more cynical attitude has to do with the fact that not everyone writes well, including people who are desperate to get their books out of their heads. That doesn’t mean the spirit of a … Read more
If you’ve interacted with the book publishing process at all, you probably know there is not just one type of editing. There is line editing, which focuses on the use of language and how it flows within a manuscript, line by eponymous line. There is copyediting, which focuses on grammar and diction. However, in the … Read more
It’s hard to see the big picture from the ground floor. When it comes to your own book, you sometimes reach a point where you’re not sure whether readers will be able to navigate it. Maybe something feels “off” that you can’t quite articulate. Maybe you know what’s missing, but you aren’t sure how to … Read more
In 2020, those who weren’t inundated with extra work or battling it out on the pandemic frontlines suddenly had a lot more time to read. The question is—what did they read? Book sales have been thriving over the past two years (two years…*weeps*), but apparently those mountains of books have been collecting more dust than … Read more
