A wonderfully appropriate spot…
How wonderfully appropriate that we should spot this Shaggy Ink Mushroom
in front of John Randle’s Whittington Press shop in Gloucestershire
during a recent visit. Stay tuned for the audio.
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Audio Interview with Karl Siegler, Publisher, Talonbooks, by Nigel Beale
Karl Siegler is a founding member of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the Literary Press Group of Canada; he has served as president of the Association of Canadian Publishers twice, and was one of the founding members of the Simon Fraser Centre for Studies in Publishing and its Masters in Publishing Program. He’s also the publisher at Talonbooks.
Talonbooks has published Canadian poetry and drama since the publishing house was established in 1963. According to some dated, but I’m sure currently applicable stats from the Canada Council the average Canadian drama title sells 594 copies during its first two years in print, the average poetry title sells 405 copies.
Karl and I talk here first about the role of a literary publisher, then about how Talon has managed to stay in business for over forty years, and finally about constituencies and the title he is most proud of publishing. Please listen here:
Copyright © 2009 by Nigel Beale.
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Literature in Translation: Audio interview with Open Letter’s Chad Post, by Nigel Beale.
Open Letter is the University of Rochester’s literary publishing house. ‘ It is dedicated to connecting readers with great international authors and their works. Publishing twelve books a year and running an online literary website called Three Percent, Open Letter is one of only a handful of U.S. organizations with a commitment to cultivating an appreciation for international literature.’
‘Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter, a press dedicated to publishing literature in translation. He also runs Three Percent, an online blog and review site focused on international literature. Prior to starting Open Letter, he was the associate director at Dalkey Archive Press. In addition, he co-founded Reading the World, a unique collaboration between publishers and independent bookstores to promote world literature.’ We talk here among other things about the dominance of great non-English speaking novelists, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch is one of Post’s favourite novels), Jose Saramago and the phenomenon of one-foreign-author-at-a-time, reasons for the success of 2666, why American authors have the inside track, how economics works against translation, and the opportunities that exist in publishing foreign authors.
Please listen here: (Apologies for the rather abrupt ending).
Copyright © 2009 by Nigel Beale. www.nigelbeale.com
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Audio Interview with Stephen Johnson, M.D. Random House Struik, by Nigel Beale.
Stephen Johnson is Managing Director of the recently formed South African publishing firm Random House Struik. We talk here about the merger, the independence of SABC (the state owned South African Broadcasting Corporation), Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, Random House Struik’s political power, Apartheid’s banning of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, the current government’s under-funding of libraries, political corruption and the loss of early promise, Apartheid by other means, freedom, story-telling and other explanations for South Africa’s flourishing publishing sector, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Jacob Zuma’s shower head, and plans Johnson has for the future of his company.
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Copyright © 2009 by Nigel Beale. www.nigelbeale.com
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Audio Interview with Tosca Reno and Robert Kennedy: How to write and publish your own Book, successfully.
Find out how author Tosca Reno and publisher Robert Kennedy teamed up with National Book Network to produce The Eat Clean Diet series of books and turn them into a best-selling success story. By channeling passion into action, translating experience into friendly words on the page, cutting no corners, emphasizing quality in design, paper, photography and cover art work, these two, through persistence and hard work, have seen their initial ideas transformed into an exhilarating finished product.
Listen to my conversation with them here, and learn what it takes to achieve similar goals.
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The Role of Publisher: Audio Interview with Kathryn Court, President, Penguin Books by Nigel Beale.
Kathryn Court joined Penguin Books in 1977 and became Editorial Director two years later. In l984 she was named Editor in Chief of Viking Penguin and in 1992 Senior Vice-President, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of Penguin Books. She was named President of Penguin Books in August 2000. Authors she has worked with include: Reinaldo Arenas, Andrea Camilleri, J.M. Coetzee, Slavenka Drakulic, Mary Relinda Ellis, Robert Fagles, Josephine Humphreys, Garrison Keillor, Nora Okja Keller, Donna Leon, Mary McGarry Morris, John Mortimer, Richard Rodriguez, C.J. Samsom, Jim Trelease, and William Trevor.
We met last summer at BookExpo in New York, and talk here about: the role of publisher, artist Chris Ware‘s funky Candide cover, new ways of selling things you already own, showing the young that reading can be fun, finding new authors and having faith in them, Andrea Camilleri and the benefit of buying series, hard cover versus soft cover sales, 4000 title backlists that finance front lists, J.M. Coetzee’s greatness, sales and distain for interviewers, the need for confidence in young editors in order to convince others that their picks are as good as they say they are, advertising in book review sections and how it doesn’t work, how emotional novels and those with voices women can identify with sell best, the three million copy selling The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, the sales power of word of mouth, and the joyful intensity of working as part of an editorial team…as a happy few against the world.
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Publisher as Muse: IPG’s Curt Mathews Audio Interview with Nigel Beale
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Curt Mathews is CEO of the Independent Publishers Group, a book distributor for independent publishers throughout the USA and worldwide. IPG represents a stable of small publishers, providing them, for a fee, with the clout, presentation and sales force required to sell books to booksellers successfully. We talk here about the IPG business model, growth coming from outside bookstores, special interests and faceless mobs, concern about the brand of the book as a product of considered thought, the publisher as muse, wooden boats and commercializing the creative process.
Copyright © 2006 by Nigel Beale
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Audio Interview with Kevin Smokler by Nigel Beale. How Book Publishers can Succeed in the 21st Century
If books were once hallowed buildings that publishers constructed for lucky readers to enter by invitation through the front door, today they are just one of an increasing number of competing sources of entertainment and escape. Buildings that today will stand empty if new more creative, welcoming entrances aren’t blown open. Backdoors, windows, heli pads on the roof…the easier it is for visitors to get in and see not only the drawing room, but the bedrooms, bathrooms, basements, plumbing, the less likely it is that these buildings will face the wreckers ball. Kevin Smokler is the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Basic Books, 2005), and lectures throughout North America on the future of reading and publishing and the role of technology in the arts. We talk here, among other things, about what book publishers need to do in the face of fast charging competition from other easily digested forms of entertainment.
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Copyright © 2006 by Nigel Beale
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Audio Interview with Michael Cader, Founder publishersmarketplace.com by Nigel Beale.
Michael Cader, is the creator, founder, and do-it guy of publishersmarketplace.com, the "biggest and best dedicated marketplace for publishing professionals to find critical information and unique databases, find each other, and to do business better electronically." We talk here about publishers as brokers between readers and writers, about transparency and how modern readers have a thirst for the inside scoop, for knowing what goes on behind the scenes in a publishing house, about Updike and Eliot and Pound, and writers who don’t give a shit about publicity tours. This interview is full of useful advice on how publishers can benefit and prosper from the Internet. Michael is passionate and articulate about publishing. Listen and learn.
Copyright © 2006 by Nigel Beale
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Audio Interview with Jamie Byng, Canongate Publisher by Nigel Beale.
Please don’t take my f—ing photograph…
Jamie Byng appreciates and understands that myth and The Bible lie at the core of creative imagination and the Western Canon. He marries this knowledge with a skill for presentation and promotion that few other publishers can match. I met with him at BookExpo in Washington D.C. recently. We talk here about how he does it, about ambiguity, about the responsibility we parents have to make the lives of our children interesting if not easy, and about living without fear. Copyright © 2006 by Nigel Beale.
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