#kdsmiththewriter #writer #writingcommunity #author #publishing #publishinglife #writerslife #writerproblems #authorlife #authorproblems #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon

Take the latest STM #EarlyCareer #Publishing survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3SD2BC2

Results from previous surveys were published in ESE: https://ese.arphahub.com/article/79315/

#Survey #EuropeanScienceEditing #STMAssociation #PublishingLife #PublishingCareers

New year, new prayer book?!

We are starting the year by poking at the pdfs of our upcoming Renew Our Hearts: A Siddur for Shabbat Day, coming in collaboration with Bayit: Building Jewish!

Preorders:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/renew-our-hearts/

#Jewish #Mazeldon #Siddur #JewishRenewal #Renewal #PublishingLife #Prayer #Davening

I have ten family members arriving in my town this week for Chirtsmas (rented house and hotel, much calmer for all). I will be busy. But I'll still pack parcels of book orders. We'll still spontaneously toot & post & tweet & reel about our books. All good and useful bookshops stock our books, and so do we. Revel in their gloriousness, their charm, their magnificence and delight.

https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/

#indiepublishing #PublishingLife #reading #books #bookstodon

Just updated our events page for the first three months of next year. NEXT YEAR folks. It's almost here.

https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/book-stalls-and-talks/

#PublishingLife #indiepublishing #books #BookLaunch #SoManyBooks #SylviaTownsendWarner #THWhite #AlgernonBlackwood

Hell hath no fury like a publisher who's just spotted a new edition from another publisher of a novel that they (us, not them) have exclusive world rights for.

RAGE, RAGE INTO THE DYING OF THE NIGHT.

Emails have been written. Polite ones. But firm.

#publishing #PublishingLife #piracy

Getting ready to ship copies of Other Covenants to Kickstarter backers! (You can also order a copy if you weren't a backer!)

#PublishingLife #SFF #JewishSFF #Anthologies #Bookstodon

Writing a funding application. Bigging myself up is hard to do. But enthusing madly about the things I want to do but can't afford is EASY.

#funding #PublishingLife #angel

New Handheld Press Diaries episode is up! In which we still have not yet finished production on The Voluble Topsy but we launched two books and attended a prize ceremony.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4U2y3qJ0LsE
Dress and moody night-time backdrop from
https://www.gudrunsjoden.com/en-gb, scarf model's own.

#PublishingLife #diaries

@similarity Self-portrait by the man himself, currently residing in the Harry Ransom Center at Austin. Astonished really that it's not been used before.

#portrait #art #PublishingLife

Packing preorders of the glorious T H White by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Christmassy colours were NOT intended when planning the cover, but they look seasonal, no?

To be published 17 January, and preorders are posting now. https://handheldpress.co.uk/shop/lgbt-plus/sylvia-townsend-warner-t-h-white/

#SylviaTownsendWarner #THWhite #publishing #PublishingLife #goshawk #SwordInTheStone
#Camelot #OnceAndFutureKing

Some of my work diary days have 6 entries done before breakfast and 10 more for the rest of the day, and they feel like a fun, exciting, excellent publishing life.
Yesterday's work diary had 2 entries for the whole day (did online talk, checked ebook proof) and it felt like I was walking through mud.
#PublishingLife #publishing #work

@Artoo just the occasional processing of book orders ... then it's back to cake and games.

#cake #BoardGames #PublishingLife

Even on a board games weekend away I am still working at 7.30am, processing orders, chasing down another will.

#PublishingLife #boardgames #weekends #sunrise

Yesterday's editing research:
first transatlantic flights by women
Battle(s) of Arras
what colour Cambridge blue actually is
William Joynson-Hicks
selling plater horse races
1920s fad for grafting slices of chimp testicle onto humans to produce testosterone
Sybil Thorndike
19thC Marriage Acts

It's a VERY funny book.

https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/humour/a-p-herbert-the-voluble-topsy/

#Publishing #PublishingLife #Research #1920s #APHerbert #ComicClassics

Today I have:
sent emergency review copies
stared at gaping hole in marketing plan
posted book orders
reassured author
cheered on efforts of @societyofauthors
consolidated social media email accounts
sorted refund for undrunk wine from book launch
sent marketing jpgs and mp4 files
realised had forgotten to commission ebook: did that
soothed panicking literary estate
wrote Notes for July 23 book.
#PublishingLife #Publishing #Editing #Multitasking #Books #BookSelling #Marketing

OKAY we are pleased to say that we managed to add our book with possibly the most authors (over 60) to Goodreads on the first try!!

(No, it doesn't allow you to save partway.)

That was a lot of copying and pasting....!

Please add it on Goodreads so that we will feel that our efforts were worth it:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63443831-torah-without-end

#PublishingLife #Mazeldon #NeoHasidism #Bookstodon

This morning, we're working on a recently acquired manuscript that's going to have such an awesome cover (we saw a draft already).

Need to sit on our hands/paws not to share before it is final 😺 but we're getting there!

#Publishing #PublishingLife

Another day, another trip to the #PostOffice. All our #books are available via all good and useful #bookshops, worldwide, but when we sell them direct from handheldpress.co.uk, we don't need to give away 60%+ of the profit. And all orders are packed in 100% recyclable paper. #publishing #publishinglife

Look at the state of this desk.
#desklife #amworking #publishinglife #adminvortex #healthandsafetyregs