Crossing the Divide: New Vessel Press

December 10, 2014 · by Christina Kaylor | in The Story of Books | tagged Authors and book promotion, book marketing, Brooklyn Book Festival, Challenges of translating culture as well as words, e-books, Few books translated in English each year, Frankfort Book Fair, Ko Un, Liana Finck illustrator, Michael Z. Wise, New Vessel Press, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ross Ufberg, Seamus Heaney Beowulf, stealth translation, translated literature, translation as art and craft | 8 Comments

Someone’s coming from the other world, Hiss of night rain. Someone’s going there now. The two are sure to meet. —Ko Un (from Poetry: The Translation Issue, November 2014) Ko Un’s poem perfectly illustrates to me how translated works help us cross the divide between cultures to get to where “The two are sure to […]

‘Just Can’t Wait to Get on the Road Again’: Book Distribution in the U.S., Part 3

April 30, 2014 · by JS Epstein | in Brick & Mortar Bookstores, The Story of Books | tagged airplane books, Amazon, Baker & Taylor, book distribution, book wholesalers vs. retailers, development of the American Magazine, e-books, Elliott Bay Book Company, Industrial Age, Ingrams, railroad literature, Rick Simonson, serialized novels | Leave a comment

As chronicled in my previous two posts (see January 15 and March 12 of this year), the book business has transitioned a great deal since the horseback peddler days of Parson Mason Weems. And yet, in some ways, the book trade is dealing with the same problems that have plagued it since its inception. The […]

So . . . You Think You Can Self-Publish and Self-Promote.

May 5, 2013 · by Chrinda Jones | in The Writing Life | tagged blog, Darkness Knows Me, Digg, e-books, e-publishing, Facebook, Pinterest, publicity, Reddit, self-published novels, social media, Stumble Upon, Tumblr, tweet, Twitter | 9 Comments

In the last two posts you’ve read how I ended up on the carnival ride to authorship, and you learned what I did to prepare myself for the ride. In this final post, I’ll share with you what I’ve learned about promoting a self-published novel. Here again I knew nothing about what I was doing until […]