Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Publishing

Last night, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend one of Kenosha Writer's Guild's workshops on publishing and met Nate Kuiper of Compass Book Printing and Publishing, a local publisher in Pleasant Prairie. Nate is taking the middle man out of publishing and while it is essentially self publishing, he works with smaller presses and can get good deals with printing smaller runs. He also insists that the author is 100% committed to the sucess of the book and while that often means putting alot of research and marketing into it, he and I are beginning talks about a contract based marketing service that I would be willing to offer to authors in the local area (need to use that degree of mine somehow right?) So next week, he and I are going to get together for lunch or something and start hashing out some ideas and see where it leads us. But if you are in the Southeast Wisconsin area and are looking to Self Publish, check him out.