How Foreign Rights Deals Can Impact Your Book Success
We have always been firm believers in diversifying your content and creating as many revenue streams as you can with your book. In this episode, your hosts Dr. Jen Dorsey and Vanessa Campos dive in to the world of subsidiary rights -- also known as getting your book translated and sold in other countries. Some key things to keep in mind as you listen to us geek out about the London Book Fair, foreign rights, subsidiary rights, and expanding your reach are:
Should you hire a foreign rights or subsidiary rights agent to represent your book?
What to consider when negotiate the terms of the foreign rights agreement?
How long can a publisher license your book?
Should Business Books Only Be Hardcover?
We discuss the big question in book publishing: Should you release the hardcover before the paperback? We've seen it all when it comes to this conversation. Authors like the prestige of having that hardcover with dust jacket at a book signing, but as a self-published author does that matter? When it comes to formats we're agnostic. There are pros and cons to everything in book publishing. And if you're self publishing your next book, you can do what makes sense for you, your business, and your bottom line.
Exploring Book Publicity
We sat down with Smith Publicity President Marissa Eigenbrood to discuss how authors can use marketing and publicity to build their platform and grow their book sales beyond individual purchases.
Why Are All of the Heroines Running Away, and Can I Go With Them?
What if, though, they are running TO something, and not from something? Sure, when our souls take flight, the impetus is often the need to escape a situation—a bad job, an indifferent partner, a shitty small town with nothing left to give. But once we fly the coop, the only direction to go is toward something. And that something is a better version of ourselves.
The Kids Are Alright
Millennials are churning out some of the smartest investing content on the shelves and in your earbuds. And much of their good advice is borne of necessity. Who better to lead you through the investing woods than someone who has had to eat their fair share of ramen and do some truly creative budgeting to make ends meet or come up with a unique strategy for debt reduction.
