It takes a village to produce a book! At least that’s my experience. But the book is now up on the Rutgers University Press site (see flier below for the discount code) and I could not be more grateful to so many for so much. If you are a best selling author at a for-profit publishing house they might have the staff and production abilities to crank things through and support you every step of the way, but if you are small name author at a small press or an academic author with a not-for-profit university press it’s more likely that they have bare bones staffing, that the production cycle at the press is more spread out and that, on top of whatever you do to make money, you will be expected to do many of the things that used to be done by publishing houses back when there was more money to be made in publishing books.
My case is the latter and I want to thank all the people who helped to make it as fabulous as it is from the art department’s Mary Belibasakis, who took the photos I selected from those you all shared with me (on this site and personally) to produce the truly amazing cover to the marketing folks who are, as I write this, working out how to best get the word out, to my kick-ass editor, Kimberly Guinta who has believed in this book from the day I pitched it to her.
This part of the adventure–getting the book into print–is nearly done. Here’s to the next stage–getting the word out. Wish me luck as I embark on a social media campaign in a world of social media gone wild.
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