Posts Tagged ‘publishing’
A Writerly Kind of Social Media: Michael Siedlecki on Neovella
The blank page is the great adversary of many working writers. Turn on your computer, open a Word document, begin. With what? What are you supposed to write? Michael Siedlecki’s collaborative writing tool, Neovella, offers an answer. This online application lets you work with friends to collaboratively compose a novella. One writer begins the story, one adds a plot twist, one turns that plot upside down; gradually the paragraphs accumulate, building toward a full-length piece. In the tradition of James Joyce’s The Dead and Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, the novella is part short story, part …
Should We Write Books? Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
We have lived so long with the book that it’s easy to forget that it, like the iPad, was once a cutting-edge technology. From Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible to William Blake’s The Book of Thel, many of literature’s most sublime texts were offered as elegantly bound volumes, crisply printed, their pages illuminated by intricate illustrations. In this way the container for an author’s writing became an extension of his words, quietly enhancing the meaning of the text. Over centuries, publishers refined the format into a near-perfect content delivery system, a pinnacle of achievement in information technology, and in arts and …
Bellevue Literary Press’s Erika Goldman
“BLP’s mission is to publish high quality fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and the sciences, with a special focus on medicine. Our books address the impact of illness on the body, consciousness, and all human experience.”
— Erika Goldman
Ahsahta Press’s Janet Holmes
“There aren’t very many presses that will take chances on experimental writing because there isn’t an enormous readership out there (yet) and they’re worried that the books won’t sell.”
— Janet Holmes
Brick Books’ Kitty Lewis
“Our mandate is to foster interesting and ambitious work by Canadian poets, both new and established; to produce beautifully designed, attractive books worthy of the excellence of their contents; and to distribute and promote these books and their authors.”
— Kitty Lewis
