This last week Tom Summers came in and talked with us about book publishing and the various aspects of it, as well as the emergence of a "new way" of publishing. I found it to be quite interesting.
For instance, I never knew that there were so many different levels of publishers within an organization. I can't remember the exact titles that he gave them, but I believe that he listed like 3 or 4 different publishing positions that one might occupy within the company. And I never knew that they had an "acquisitions" [I think that's what he called it] publisher whose sole responsibility was to "wine and dine" authors to publish with the company. That aspect of authoring/publishing never really occurred to me as something that would be done (or even necessary) to close a publishing deal.
Mr. Summers also talked about the "new ways" to get published like sending your book into an online publisher like Amazon.com. First of all, I had no idea that something like that was even possible. Obviously you sacrifice some of your profit by going that route (as he mentioned that they usually charge quite a bit) but the ability to get your own book published--regardless of your writing experience or financial position--is a remarkable thing. I remember him asking at one point if anyone in the room ever considered or dreamed of considering trying to get published and I think only one person raised their hand. But with this whole Amazon.com publishing option, I might even consider writing something in the future. Obviously I'm no fancy-pants author, but the possibility of becoming one has become a little easier.
-Kalsun
Friday, April 9, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Technical Writing Review
I decided to look at Jenny M's technical writing revision found here.
I found her revision to be concise and to the point; omitting technical jargon, she allowed the reader to follow her simple instructions without becoming confused. She also included simple formatting additions such as bolding key terms, which makes distinguishing important aspects of the process easy to discern.
I found her revision to be concise and to the point; omitting technical jargon, she allowed the reader to follow her simple instructions without becoming confused. She also included simple formatting additions such as bolding key terms, which makes distinguishing important aspects of the process easy to discern.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
