Hey folks,

We have a new video for How to Publish a Book. Yesterday, I drove down to Wilmington, North Carolina to moderate a discussion at Pomegranate Books on the topic of how to publish a book with authors Luleen Anderson and Brooks Preik. Ms. Preik is the author of the bestselling regional collection Haunted Wilmington, which has sold over 20,000 copies.

Dr. Anderson is a retired clinical psychologist and the author of the book The Knack of a Happy Life.  You might check out the interview I did with Luleen for The Artist's Craft a month ago (further down on the blog at November 30, 2007).

Both books are non-fiction, and we get a good number of question here at How to Publish a Book specifically asking about non-fiction books and how to publish them. So hopefully, you'll find this discussion both fun and entertaining.

I've broken it into two 35-minute parts and posted it on Google video. Here is Part 1. 

Stacey
www.staceycochran.com

We've got a new episode of The Artist's Craft for How to Publish a Book, as well as some new footage from the Raleigh Write to Publish Group.

On Thursday December 20, we held an Open Mic Night Contest at a local public library. We had about 20-25 people who attended, and everyone put a dollar into the pot for a chance to read. You could enter your name into the drawing as many times as you wanted, but you had to pay a dollar per entry.

Then, we chose six names randomly from all the entries. Those six people read a ten-minute section of their own writing, and then the group voted at the end on whose was the best. The winner got all of the money accumulated in the pot (it turned out to be about 30-40 dollars).

At any rate, I filmed the whole thing for How to Publish a Book, and I edited the two highest vote getters into a new episode of The Artist's Craft to air on Time/Warner cable and RTN-10 in Raleigh.

Bottom line, it was an absolute blast, and the competition aspect of it helped to energize and focus what would have otherwise just been the same old Open Mic Night. Everybody had fun.   

Pictured first, is the whole episode of The Artist's Craft as it will appear on TV in about four weeks. The top two entries by Gurpreet Jawa and Richard Dell appear in this episode.

Well, we've got a bunch of new How to Publish a Book interviews and videos from the past week or so. I've had the opportunity to interview five authors on the subject of how to publish a book at three different venues. The first one going online here at How to Publish a Book is of a local writers group in Raleigh, North Carolina.

RAWW (Raleigh Area Women Writers) have been meeting in one form or another since 2002. They are a critique group, and I've been meaning to have a critique group on the show and for How to Publish a Book in order to discuss how to start one. RAWW seems to have excellent chemistry, and they often discuss how to publish a book and how to get a literary agent. At least one of their former members is an established author with sixteen novels published with a major U.S. publisher.

Featured here are members Trina Allen, Lynn Mercer, and Anne Woodman. 

Okay, we've got a new video for How to Publish a Book, which I shot this past Saturday at a Borders Books Event in Raleigh, North Carolina. If you're here because you want to know how to publish a book, this discussion is as relevant as any you're likely to find on the internet.

Authors J.D. Rhoades and Alexandra Sokoloff and I spoke to a group of aspiring writers on the subject of how to publish a book. Because J.D., Alex, and I have done a few of these, I felt comfortable asking them questions that really get behind the surface of book publishing.

Most guide books and how to publish a book seminars hit some of the basic information about publishing, but what I tried to do in this interview was ask the questions I wanted to know the answers to, and because I know J.D. and Alex pretty well now, I felt comfortable asking them questions that I might now have asked a couple months ago.

I guess the bottom line is that I really enjoyed this discussion on how to publish a book, and I hope you will, too. 

Stacey