Kimberly talks about rocking book PR inside and outside of a major publishing house. In this episode, we chatted with freelance food and lifestyle book publicist and Thursday Media founder Kimberly Escobar about the adorable perils of working from home (specifically, Zoom-bombing kittens), how both traditionally and self-published authors can make their publicists’ jobs easier, … Read more
Digital-only and digital-first means I’ll have to repeat myself, but figure out how to do so in a way that’s tolerable and sustainable for me and still interesting for people who are plugged in a little bit more. Michael R. Underwood’s book Annihilation Aria, published by Parvus Press, was supposed to come out in February … Read more
Kickstarter Publishing Head Margot Atwell talks crowdfunding books and money in book publishing. Artsy folks aiming to get people excited about activism: Signs of Change Campaign is active through August 31, 2020. Check it out! Margot Atwell, Head of Publishing at Kickstarter, talks with us about how a pre-order campaign on the crowdfunding platform can … Read more
Book marketer Robyn Crummer-Olson talks to authors of all kinds about how to share their books with the world. We had the pleasure of speaking with Robyn Crummer-Olson, where she shares the exciting news about her appointment as Publisher at Portland State University’s Ooligan Press. She delivers some real talk about her gold-star author marketing … Read more
Children’s publishers Brian and Josie Parker talk with Emily about staying creative while striving for justice, representation, and respect for Black lives. “The idea of picking up a book that deals with a culture or with characters who aren’t like you just seems like it’s part of the reading experience. But when you’re making the … Read more
DongWon Song speaks on reframing “diversity” and why #PublishingPaidMe shouldn’t discourage marginalized authors. Each deal is a very individual thing. Every book that you sell, every opportunity that you have is specific to you, is specific to the agent, is specific to the editor… So don’t worry about the systemic thing when it comes to … Read more
In which we learn the elements of how to design a book cover that ups your chances at sales success. “A successful cover is basically all of those elements: the typography, the category, and the uniqueness of the story need to be held together. And it just needs to look damn good.” Olivia Croom Hammerman, … Read more
Return guest Brian Palmer is developing Scribi Writer’s Studio—your new favorite book writing app. Hybrid Pub Scout Podcast · Episode 40: Brian Palmer on His All-in-One Book Writing App — Scribi Writer’s Studio Heads up—this episode has a couple of f-words in it. We hung out with Brian Palmer (aka B.C. Palmer) for the first … Read more
Rakesh Satyal shares his secrets to balancing his work as an editor with writing and promoting his own novels. You do have to push forward. You’re always going to be a stronger writer the second after what you’re writing gets on the page. There’s always going to be a rationale of why you have to … Read more
Welcome to the University of Hell, with your professor (publisher) Greg Gerding! What do you do if you’ve got 30 notebooks full of your writing and no one to publish them? If you’re University of Hell Press founder Greg Gerding, you do it yourself and create a self-publishing empire. The author of seven published books … Read more
