Big things are happening for The Wax Bullet War this summer! It’s Sean Davis’s August readings blitz. During the first week of the month alone, Sean had four readings scheduled in ten days, in cities all over the Pacific Northwest: Bend, Seattle, Tacoma, and then back home to Portland. I recently had the pleasure of […]
Marketing
A Wave of Titles
By Ariana Marquis
We’ve been thinking hard these past few weeks about whether Trout Frying in America is the strongest title for our book. Choosing a title is an immeasurably important process—it’s arguably the single most important marketing device for the book, bar none. When someone walks into a bookstore not knowing exactly what they want but looking […]
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By Brandon Sanford
Hello my friends! I’m finally back from my vacation, and feeling eminently less stressed. Melanie and I have already met up to hash out current battle plans. It certainly makes planning easier when talking face to face! One thing Melanie and I wanted to try this year was to find a sponsor for the conference. […]
Time to Spread the Word
By Meagan Lobnitz
Hello again, everyone. There has been a great deal of activity with the Untangling the Knot manuscript over the last few weeks. Nearly all of the final edits on the individual pieces are complete. The project team has been hard at work type coding each of the pieces that are finished, a process which makes […]
Getting There
By Meagan LobnitzHello again, everyone. It has been a relatively calm week for Untangling the Knot. The project team’s main focus has been the continuation of some ongoing tasks as we try to finish the summer term with all of the project’s goals and deadlines in mind. The social media audit of the Untangling the Knot contributors […]
Getting Our Message Out
By Ryan Kauffman
Hello again! This week, our mission has been focused on gathering as much information as we can to contact reviewers and blurbers so that we can get the word out about Karelia’s book come fall. We’re busy drafting letters and press releases to these folks in the hope that we can get some big names […]