Technology

An important element in every author’s media kit is the Author Q&A. A powerful Author Q&A can go far in generating interest for your book. This document provides potential readers a deeper perspective on your writing and some background on you as a person. The more readers know about you and your work, the more…

Hunt Valley, MD—Announced today, Sheridan has acquired PubFactory, the industry-lauded online publishing platform for journals, books, and reference works, from O’Reilly Media. PubFactory will continue to be based out of Boston, MA, and will blend seamlessly into the Sheridan stable of publisher technology products and services. The PubFactory team has been developing and delivering scholarly…

This webinar will explore trends affecting K12 publishers and the technology and strategies they’re employing to reap opportunities.

Writing a book is a herculean task, but writing a series is even more difficult. You have to keep track of so many elements: plot, characterization, setting, narrative arcs, subplots, relationships amongst your characters, and which character to kill next—assuming you’re a mystery author, and maybe even if you aren’t. Then there are all those…

Scholastic recently released its new report on the state of school reading in the United States. Two of the many findings include the need for more time devoted to independent reading and a desire for more ebooks in school libraries. Independent Reading Independent reading time is the segment of a school day in which students…

Coffee. Cigarettes. Liquor. Let’s be honest: All writers have their addictions. Mine is submitting to writing contests. (Please don’t tell my mother!) Some writers turn up their noses at writing competitions and insist they are scams, but I don’t subscribe to this cynical theory. Other writers assert that one should never enter a contest with…

Audiobooks are today’s fastest growing digital book format … but have you ever wondered why? As an indie author or digital publisher, if you haven’t already created and distributed an audiobook version of your titles, now’s the time. As an author and a reader, I’ve never outgrown the desire to have stories read to me…

The topic of metadata crops up regularly as an issue publishers should care about, without much guidance as to why. So let’s ask that question now: Why should a publisher care about their metadata? The reasons are actually closely related to a publisher’s daily operations and bottom line. To that end, here are four reasons…

When my debut novel, Mistress Suffragette, was about to be published, I realized that I wanted to have a Twitter presence. But I wasn’t certain how to go about achieving that. I wanted to tie my messages into my novel, but not reveal so very much about it that no one would buy it. I needed…

Theme parks and rock concerts have understood for decades the power of bottling experiences to immortalize memories. How many of us have seen pictures of others sporting Mouse Ears or wearing band T-shirts from concert tours? Perhaps you have a souvenir you bought from a tourist shop while vacationing or a picture of you or a…