Thursday, December 25, 2008

Update

I'm still plugging away at several mystery titles, hoping to have them finished by January 1.

I've been fooling around with Facebook, created a page for Coachwhip, (only a few covers on it right now), but haven't added a link from the main site yet. Maybe this weekend.

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Thematic Strategy

I have a range of books I am working on in different stages. One thing I particularly am looking for are small groups of thematically related books. The idea being, similar books help sell each other, and of course a customer who likes one book may be more willing to buy another from the same publisher.

I haven't done much with Lancaster County material, though I've been back in the area for about seven years. I should have a few books coming out by a local author/speaker that are of some regional interest (and he'll be selling direct, which will be the bulk of sales). He has a few local natural history subjects, another on the county's covered bridges, and I'm trying to talk him (and his wife) into an authentic Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook.

I'm a bit behind in my personal cryptozoology titles, but I need to bolster my monthly sales first before spending all that time putting together titles with a limited market.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Index Page Covers

OK -- turns out I prefer all the covers on the index page. I reorganized it a little bit, but after looking over a few other sites with decent SEO, it doesn't appear that numerous small images on the front page are a problem. People don't mind scrolling, apparently.

Other news -- I got sidetracked again on another theme... Looks like I'll be putting out a few single-author anthologies of classic mysteries. (Raffles, the Thinking Machine, Poe's Dupin, maybe a few more.)

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

LSI Interview

For those keeping up with the POD industry, here's an interesting interview with Lightning Source President David Taylor. Changes are par for the course with print-on-demand, and it looks like publishers will have more options in the future.

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