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Richard Nash Publishing 3.0
Well worth the 30 minutes, check out Richard Nash talking about the next step, maybe, in publishing --> 3.0 (link from catsparx).
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On building a publishing house
Things are very busy at Twelfth Planet Press right now. In a good way - in a contagious, productive vibe kind of way. In the last couple of weeks, it's started to really feel like a "house" for the first time. It's always been more than me behind the scenes - Tansy and Ben were there from the beginning and then Tehani came on board and it's been ( Read more... ) -
Submissions Call for 2011 Anthology
Twelfth Planet Press is announcing a reading period for Speakeasy, a new anthology to be launched at Natcon50 in Perth 2011.With Prohibition in full force in the US, speakeasies were all the rage, cocaine was still legal and the Charleston, the Shimmy and The Bunny Hog were in their heyday! Art deco influenced the faces of cities, jazz music was ( Read more... ) -
Shiny Issue 6
The final issue of Shiny - Issue 6 - is now available!
I’m very sad to farewell Shiny, but farewell it I must, as Issue 6 is to be our final issue. We’ve had so much fun and found this project so rewarding. I would like to thank Tansy, Ben and Tehani who have acted in various roles for this project along the way - slush readers, editors, proof ( Read more... ) -
Your debut book is the greatest gift you can ever give your readers
Heh - that title is a tad tongue in cheek [1] but my thoughts have been turning to single author collections a lot lately. It's often said, in Australian specfic circles, and you know, behind the closed doors where critics talk in lowered voices, that many (male) authors are collected too early in their careers and that female authors tend to be ( Read more... ) -
Temporary Shop
I've unfortunately lost my shop pages on the Twelfth Planet Press website. I'm currently working to get the function back up as fast as I can but in the meantime, purchases for our books can be made via the following buttons. If you have a question, would like to roll purchases into one parcel to save on postage etc, please fee free to email me at ( Read more... ) -
Finally back into the swing of things
It's well and truly into January and the start of 2010. Whilst I did work on Twelfth Planet Press projects over my Xmas/New Year break, a bunch of personal stuff happened in the first week of this year that meant I was too tired and too busy to get properly stuck into the massive to do list ( Read more... ) -
5 Lies Writers Believe About Editors
Thanks to Alan Baxter who tweeted the link to this post by Jeremiah Tolbert - 5 Lies Writers Believe About EditorsI've been wanting to write a post about my recent ongoing adventures as an indie publisher. I have a bunch of different measures for gauging the way I track my progress in this venture. Some of them are obvious - bottom line, book sales ( Read more... ) -
The breathtaking thing that is anthology production
There's fun moments along the route to anthology production that stand out in your memory of the experience. These tend to be the only bits you recall (conveniently forgetting the painful ones) when you decide to go through the process all over again.
I'm currently at perhaps the most exciting part of the process for Sprawl. Submissions for the ( Read more... ) -
And sometimes it's the little things
Sometimes it's not about the big things, sometimes, it's the tiniest detail that makes a difference. Personally, I'm the kind of person who can very easily avoid doing something that will take literally two minutes and put it off for later. Even after all this time, when I have learned that doing something that takes two minutes now, even if it is ( Read more... )