http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog Information on web commerce, publishing and writing. Some of it useful, some of it not. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:11:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If five years in business has taught me anything, it is that if anything major is going to go wrong, it will be right before we release a new title. I remember that with one of James Spurr's it was the hard drive melting down. Another title, maybe one of his, ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/30/new-computer/ Royalty Statements and accompanying checks for sales period closed 6/30/2010 were mailed today. http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/28/royalty-statements-and-checks-mailed-today/ Yesterday, I emailed off the electronic 'galleys' to the authors of Janjaweed. Galleys used to be on actual paper ran through the printing press using the first printing 'plates' for the book. They would consist of many and sometimes massive mistakes. Little of the mistakes would have to do with ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/27/galleys/ Today and tomorrow of editing Janjaweed, and I will be done. I'll format it over the weekend and shoot the pdf off to the authors as soon as it is done. As soon as they have a chance to go through it a final time (and I'll be reading through ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/22/wrapping-it-up-janjaweed-release-date-911/ I'm on the second round of edits for Joe and Jane Matthews' Janjaweed. Normally, 2nd round edits go quickly and easily because I've already been through the ms once, the author has again gone through it, and thus I'm only looking for things missed on the prior go through. Usually ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/17/2nd-round-of-edits/ And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. - Luke 17:5 http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/12/591/ Chart courtesy of Foner Books http://www.fonerbooks.com/selfpublishing/?p=213 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Chart courtesy of Foner Books"][/caption] http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/08/how-are-on-line-book-sales-going/ Just so you all don't think I've been doing nothing for the last couple of days (brief pause while I laugh myself into hysterics over that thought), here at last is the mock up cover for Janjaweed - Devils on Horseback. This will probably go through some tweaks yet, and I'm ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/06/janjaweed-cover-and-a-good-scare/ June 30 marked the ending of the six month sales period from 1/1/2010 to 6/30/2010. All our books are on a six month sales period for the first two years of their published life. After two years, they're on a yearly sales period running from July 1st of the previous ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/07/02/royalty-time-again/ When I'm in the midst of edits, I slip through a hole and out of the universe for a while. Probably the only person more intensely connected with a book than an editor when editing it is the writer when writing it. If the work is of a subject the editor ... http://hummingbirdworldmedia.com/blog/2010/06/29/e-books-changing-the-way-we-publish/