Yesterday I sat on a panel with three esteemed authors and we talked about publishing. It\u2019s always interesting\u2014and possibly a bit confusing for the audience\u2014when each panelist comes from a different publishing experience. On the other hand, audience members certainly get a wide range of possible scenarios\u2014they are privy to, perhaps, a larger picture than they would be with just one author speaking from one perspective.<\/p>\n
While chatting with members of this audience after the program, I discovered that many of them were narrowly focused. They had no desire to go into the business of publishing. They wanted only to print a few copies of their memoir for family members or produce a booklet to hand out to friends and others interested in their topic. One woman was working with a museum to produce a book on local history. If there were any hardcore writers interested in writing as a career, I didn\u2019t meet them. But this is the author the panelists were addressing as we responded to the commentator\u2019s questions. Audience questions went a completely different direction. They wanted to know about printing companies\u2014who would we recommend?<\/p>\n
Being unprepared for that question, I jotted down email addresses, did a little research and responded to these folks this morning. Maybe you would be interested in the directories of printers that I sent them. Here are two:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.printingnews.com\/content\/documents\/2010OnDemand.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/printing.directoryusa.biz<\/a> <\/p>\n I use 360 Digital Books Here\u2019s a question that comes up once in a while and it came up yesterday. When do you capitalize mom, father, dad, mother, etc? When I responded to the gentleman who asked, he attempted to argue with me. He said, \u201cThat\u2019s not right.\u201d I think he misunderstood me.<\/p>\n This morning I sent him this from the Chicago Manual of Style<\/em> 16th edition, which is the style manual authors should be using.<\/p>\n On page 400 (item 8:35), \u201cKinship names are lowercased unless they immediately precede a personal name or are used alone, in place of a personal name. Their examples are as follows:<\/p>\n my father and mother So, you would write, \u201cI adore my mom.\u201d but \u201cI adore Mom.\u201d See the difference?<\/p>\n Do you have questions such as these that I might be able to help with? Situations like these come up daily when you are writing. At least these are things that, if you don\u2019t know the answers to, you should be inquiring and\/or researching.<\/p>\n Here are a couple of other things that came up yesterday. I found them interesting. Maybe you will, too. Someone said she heard that if you were to read everything that was posted to uTube just yesterday, you would be reading for 100 years. Zowie!<\/p>\n Someone also stated that, while there are thousands of books being produced each year, there are still hundreds of authors who only talk about writing or publishing a book and never actually follow through.<\/p>\n Are you one of those authors? Or are you on a path to living your publishing dream? If you are stalled\u2014you need help moving forward\u2014contact me and let\u2019s see if I can help you experience the success you desire. PLFry620@yahoo.com<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.patriciafry.com<\/a> Yesterday I sat on a panel with three esteemed authors and we talked about publishing. It\u2019s always interesting\u2014and possibly a bit confusing for the audience\u2014when each panelist comes from a different publishing experience. On the other hand, audience members certainly get a wide range of possible scenarios\u2014they are privy to, perhaps, a larger picture than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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\nthe Bronte sisters
\nLet\u2019s write to Aunt Maud.
\nI believe Grandmother\u2019s middle name was Marie.
\nPlease, Dad, let\u2019s go
\nShe adores her aunt Maud.<\/p>\n
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