When you have a thriving business, it’s always easy to put off that book you’ve been meaning to write. There are only so many hours in a day, and writing can seem like a low priority when you have presentations to prepare, hectic family schedules, a health and fitness routine, and maybe, just maybe, a social life.
Congratulations to our client Mindy Mackenzie whose recently-released The Courage Solution landed on the Wall Street Journal‘s Best-Selling Books list for the week ending May 8, 2016.
Our client Michael Bungay Stanier is one of those savvy authors who knows how to write brilliant books and who also knows how to make the most of the support he enlists to produce them.
Writers ask us regularly if they can float a book idea past us to see if it might attract interest from publishers. If we know the writer, or they have a lot of credibility in their fields (whether as a writer or a professional in something else), we’ll usually be keen to hear it.
Publishing a book is a complex experience. While some people enlist the help of professionals to support their self-publishing plan, many also reach out to friends and family for support.
For authors who want to publish at a professional level, self-publishing is a misnomer. Usually you will end up hiring publishing professionals to help you with your book. Those may be individuals, such as freelance editors and designers, a hybrid publisher, or a publishing services company like Page Two.
This weekend Pailin Chongchitnant landed on the Globe and Mail bestseller list with her gorgeous cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen. The book gives authentic Thai recipes that anyone can try at home and explains the basic principles that underlie Thai dishes.
Simplified Chinese rights to Daniel Jones’s Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance have been sold to Beijing Standway Books Co. by Susie Li of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd., on behalf of Trena White, principal of Page Two and associate agent of the Transatlantic Agency.
Many authors have excellent book ideas and great credentials but they don’t have the time or expertise to handle all of the writing themselves. Following a series of interviews and extended discussions, an experienced ghostwriter can write a book to the author’s specifications, capturing the author’s voice and form of expression.
What’s driving the explosion of audiobooks?
Over the last year, the publishing industry has reported that audiobooks are the fastest-growing book format. According to the American Association of Publishers downloadable audio grew 31% the first half of 2015 compared with the previous year.
Last month, Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White attended the Vancouver launch of client Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary.
As the photos below demonstrate, the launch was a huge success.
When it’s done well, interior book design can have a great impact on your reader’s enjoyment. Good interior book design in a book isn’t usually obvious: the thoughtful decisions the designer has made in placing and presenting text are often invisible to the reader, and that’s the point.
