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The health of publishing is the health of the humanities
One place to find loads of working people with degrees in the humanities is book publishing, a field where (unlike, say, academic library work) no…
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Derek Krissoff
Support for books is a social movement
At a well-attended bookstore event a few years ago, I remember the featured author asking the audience why people went to readings. He seemed happy…
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Derek Krissoff
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Travis Stimeling, musician and book person
A short remembrance
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Derek Krissoff
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4.72 x 7.48 inches
A story about trim
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Derek Krissoff
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Ask me about these books
I have, as I mentioned last week, recently moved from full-time work directing a small university press to working with multiple publishers mostly on…
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Derek Krissoff
Manuscript prizes and other indie publishing notes, October–December
A quick note with some upcoming manuscript contests of possible interest to Book Work’s readership, along with other fall tidbits: The nonprofit FC2…
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Derek Krissoff
A novella of the Frankfurt Book Fair
Alastair Horne talks with Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, authors of "The Frankfurt Kabuff"
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Derek Krissoff
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