Behind the Scenes With Jan Pogue, Publisher of the Recent National Hit 'Morning Glory Farm'
... One of the things you never do is work with somebody you haven't heard about. So I am in a network of little publishers who kind of talk to each other. ... We have to make sure that the printer who dealt with the last little publisher made that little publisher happy. ... The other [factor] is how do you deal with these offshore printers? You're talking [about], obviously, a foreign language; you're talking [about a] great time differential. How do you know that they're able to communicate with you? So you look for American reps, and you can tell when you start talking to a rep whether they're just salesmen or they, in fact, know their stuff. ... You want a publishers rep who is a production person, who will say to you, "Oh, you don't really need to do that," or, "Hey, you better do that." ...