Michael Drew and Publishing

Just stopped over at Michele Miller's Wonderbranding (stuff that's good for you) and found this exciting post on Creating a Bestseller.

She's writing about Wizard Academy partner, Michael Drew, and his new resource on the world of publishing: Beneath the Cover. I took a look at the site and it has some excellent content on it. (not enough women, though... Michael, call me... I'm ready to help out).

The likes of Bryan Eisenberg and Roy H. Williams are included in the contributor's list. There's a link for guest contributors, but the only one that I can see is David Meerman Scott. (the site is new... and the content is outstanding, so... they will likely add guest contributors in time)

Of course, they have a blog, Push the Key: Improve the Book Industry, While Improving You. It's off to a  good start. As with our blog, here at Aha! (authors helping authors), they seem to be focusing on education, not marketing.

It's important to learn as much as you can about the process of writing and publishing, if you really want your work to be a success. As Michael Drew says in his June 29th post, "Bestselling book promotion experts Rick Frishman and Robyn Freedman Spizman suggest that you'll get the attention of publishers if you speak their language - and that's the language of profit and loss."

The title of the post is, "Publishing is a business"... which is exactly what we try to explain to our authors, time and again.

There is a lot of misinformation out there, in the world, on the net, falling off people's tongues, regarding publishing but especially regarding print on demand and self-publishing.

We've been neglecting this blog for too long, but we have some exciting books and projects in the works that have taken us away from it. Watch for more consistent posting... on publishing and print-on-demand, as well as blooking (blogging your book) and blarketing (using blogs to market your book - yes, I just made that up!), to help you succeed in your writing and publishing endeavors.

Now, I have to write to the folks at Beneath the Cover and see if I can persuade them that an expert in print-on-demand would be a worthwhile addition to their group.

Comments

[Michael Drew]

Yvonne,

Thank you for the wonderful post about Beneaththecover.com. We believe that it will be the trade publication for the book industry of the future, because we focus on what matters to authors, publishers, book marketers and PR firms and retailers.

We'd be honored to have you as a weekly contributor to Beneaththecover.com. We will be emailing you the details to be a contributor later today.

Thanks again for your great post.

Michael R. Drew
wwwbeneaththecover.com
michael@beneaththecover.com