Wednesday, April 28, 2010

quick summary of Northern California Publishers and Authors event

Held at the Red Lion Hotel behind Arden Fair in Sacramento, the day long event was well worth the money. Keynoter was Dominique Raccah, founder of Source-books in 1987 and now a top independent publisher. It took all our energy just to listen to her hundreds of bits of information covering the transformation of the book from the traditional paper object to today's plethora of new business models and devices with which to deliver "content." I took 23 pages of notes, trying to capture a fraction of her wisdom!

More later...

Saturday, April 24, 2010

northern california publishers and authors

wowza! just got back from my first NCPA conference day--awesome presentations!!!! Details to follow but join that group if you can.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

in the shoemaker's shop...

the same refrain would never stop, as I tap away every early day... now 100 pages into next iteration of polishing, based on sister's input of the whole... takes a lot of stick-to-it-ness to get a novel born!!!!