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I was recently asked about publishing proposals. A friend of mine has just finished her first novel and is currently working on “shopping it around” as she so called it. Before beginning my MFA I worked as an Acquisitions Editor with Elsevier for two years and have seen and written more proposals [...]
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Book Proposals and Query Letters
May 31st, 2010 No Comments
Tags: book proposals · bookscan · elsevier · publishing · queries
Paid Summer Internship at Adams Media
May 25th, 2010 No Comments
Word’s reached us via an alum of the Emerson MA program that Adams Media in Avon, MA is looking for a paid Summer Media Intern. A line in the requirements mentions undergrads, but the A.M. HR has confirmed that grad students will be considered, too. Also (this has more to do with grad students or [...]
Tags: adams media · internships · jobs · publishing
Links for Your Enjoyment and Edification and Some Probably Unwelcome Commentary
May 17th, 2010 No Comments
Over at Publishr, author/artist Brian Joseph Davis begins a post by stating what must be obvious to many publishers and future MAs in publishing—
The distribution channels of digital art and music operate at global speed, but the apparatus that creates and markets literary fiction is only now stepping out of business models from the 1950s.
—and [...]
Tags: brett sandusky · brian joseph davis · china miéville · drm · fiction · matthew diener · publishing · publishr · the city & the city
In Light of a Recent Incident
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
Today, business relationships and personal relationships are becoming increasingly indistinguishable; this is for the better.
Tags: Chris · commuication · publishing · relationships · social media
Professor Profile: David Emblidge
September 15th, 2009 1 Comment
David is sure to offer up a cerebral “bon-bon” or two to satisfy any eager mind.
Tags: book · book editing · Chris · david · emblidge · introduction · overview · professor · publishing
How ‘Free’ Textbooks Change the Business
September 7th, 2009 No Comments
…the world-wide availability of the quality free material will create an audience large enough so that if 1 percent of that audience pays for the ‘premium’ services…the revenue from that 1 percent will support the free services, even drive a profit.
Tags: Chris · Free · open source · publishing · publishing industry · textbook