So you’re publishing your book and you’re wondering how to make it stand out from the other 600,000 new books published in North America over the last year. You’re not alone. One of the biggest issues publishers and self-publishers are grappling with these days is how to make readers aware that their books exist.
Arno Kopecky’s The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (Douglas & McIntyre) has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award 2014.
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October 3 marks Page Two’s first anniversary and SFU Publishing Associate Professor Monique Sherrett has honoured the event with her recent post, “Page Two Turns One.” She looks back on Page Two’s first year and also shares what’s taking shape for the year ahead
Sherrett writes, “The focused, yet nimble, nature of Page Two is apparent when looking at their strategic publishing projects over the first year.
We’re pretty quick to admit our biases at Page Two. If we had a written list, great editing would be at the very top of it. We’re always in favour of editorial work, no matter who the writer is or what length of text she’s working with.
Are you writing a manuscript and wondering how to publish it? In this two-hour seminar, we will talk about the pros and cons of self-publishing versus working with a publisher, and the steps involved in each.
On July 1, 2014, new Canadian anti-spam legislation (CASL) came into effect that restricts the use of email, text messages, and instant messages for commercial purposes. Businesses now need consent to send electronic commercial messages to individuals.
Our heartfelt congratulations to Arno Kopecky, who has won the 2014 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction for The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (Douglas & McIntyre).
Margaret Bryant, director of sales and marketing for Dundurn, has acquired world rights to Phil Dwyer’s Larry’s Book: Lessons in Dying a Good Death, a non-fiction work chronicling the end-of-life experience of Dr.
Page Two is delighted to announce that we’ve hired a project manager. Carra Simpson has worked in trade book publishing since 2007, most recently as the publishing operations manager at Greystone Books and Douglas & McIntyre.
There has been much debate over the ebook pricing dispute that’s emerged between retail giant Amazon and Hachette, a large multinational publisher. The issue could have enduring and serious consequences for the industry, and the stakes feel high.
Stephen King says in his memoir, On Writing: “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out.” He meant that you should think about your reader when you’re revising your manuscript.
