A People's Guide to Publishing

A People's Guide to Publishing

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A People's Guide to Publishing episodes

  • Comics about the history of service dogs, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and anarchist prince Peter Kropotkin
    Harvey Pekar fundamentally changed the way that comics convey information and entertainment. The advent of the nonfiction comic allowed books like these, to share the history of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and how a young anarchist prince became influential anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. We talk about these books and how we came to publish them!
    11 min
  • Why do we publish so many workbooks?
    "Workbooks are the new coloring books" we declared to Publisher's Weekly last year. "Prove it." they responded, unimpressed. A year later, publishing nearly a dozen of them and selling around 100,000 copies, we believe that we have. Here's how you can too!
    10 min
  • A Tour of Microcosm
    Many years ago we ran out of a 600 sq' office and we would repeatedly hear rumors that it was a false front, like the Hershey's fake factory in Hershey Pennsylvania. I liked the myth that we had a secret, larger operation elsewhere. So let's face the facts. What happens in our building? How do we do it? Where do we keep things? How does it all work together?
    10 min
  • How Should a Publisher Manage Inventory?
    The minute that you open the boxes of your first books, it's SOOOO EXCITING! Then a few days, weeks, months, and years go by and...where do we put all of these? How do we make sense of them? How many do we have? How do we keep track? How do we know when to print more? We tackle all of that and more this week!
    10 min
  • How Does a Publisher Manage Their Brand?
    Most of the time in publishing, when we talk about brands, we are talking about authors. But recently, in independent publishing, we've seen the rise of the series and its own form of unique branding. So we are going to explore best practices and how to manage your brand!
    14 min
  • Damn, Why Didn't I Write That? (A Review)
    Last week we talked about the evolving definition of midlist so this week we are cracking the lid open on how to write a midlist book or twenty! The lens is Marc McCutcheon's book, Damn, Why DIdn't I Write That? which you can snag a copy of here: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/9585
    9 min
  • What is the publishing midlist?
    Recently we ran into an article claiming that the publishing midlist no longer exists. So we talked about it and realized that the definition of it is merely changing. So this week we took a look at the up and downsides of that evolving definition and who the culprits are (spoiler: some familiar subjects).
    10 min

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Do you find that the traditional methods for book publishing aren't working for you? Are you a publisher or author who wants to innovate, succeed, and expand your audience through time-tested…

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