The SLUSHPILE Blog

From a production standpoint, 2008 has been a lousy year. In the end, we will have only produced ONE new title.
I won’t bore you with all the details on the cancellation of two titles as I blogged about those previously as they occurred, but for our final title, An Unlikely Missionary by Skylar Hamilton Burris, I [...]

Everyone is waiting for the answer to the question: is the gov going to bail out the automakers?
On the one hand, I think we should let them drown. Bye, bye, big three. Let some one else have a chance.
After all, I don’t have anyone bailing me out when my business model isn’t working. Why should [...]

Most mornings I listen to WORD FM, a Christian radio braodcast.
This morning, I learned a few interesting facts about Noah’s Ark:
The Ark was made out of Cypress wood (I knew that), but did you know that it is the same wood that Jews used for caskets?
God instructed that the Cypress be Pitched (tarred) on the [...]

How I missed blogging about this, I’m not certain, but some quick searches brought up nothing on the subject, so–
To catch you up, the originator of the POD (Print on Demand) concept first envisioned a printer that would be installed in book stores that customers could choose any title in the world and have it [...]

Skylar Hamilton Burris’ book is ready to go to the printer, so why hasn’t it gone yet?
This involves a decision made jointly between myself and the CIO (that would be Neal Melvin, the Chief Irksome Officer). The decision to be made was, go forward and print the book as is, without a Library of Congress [...]

In my last blog, I ended the post with the news that I was contemplating putting out a book on small press publishing, something that I had in the back of my mind but hadn’t felt ‘ready’ to do as of yet.
With my feeling that the time may have arrived, I spent some time doing [...]

We’ve settled on the changes for Sklar’s back cover blurb for her soon to be released second novel An Unlikely Missionary, and it followed pretty much the process that I described in my post yesterday. All that is left to do now is to make the revisions on the cover file, drop in the bar [...]

Unexpected Benefits: 
When I started blogging back in September of 2007, I viewed it as an experiment in marketing. I really have no internal need to share the details of my business or my life with anyone who happens by, but I had read some marketing books and they were all unanimous on the advice of [...]

How do I define Intelligent Writing? It is a hard concept to pin down (although I know it when I see it). It is in no way akin to high-brow, as in I don’t believe intelligent writing talks down to the reader, or leaves them grasping for understanding. It does not involve elite word usage [...]

The election concluded last night with a win for Obama. Congratulations to him and his supporters.
We’ll see you all in four years
Despite the election, business didn’t stop, nor did it slow. In fact, we just seemed to get busier.
Here are some highlights:
Gail MacMillan emailed me with the news that she landed a VERY [...]