Books, books, books
Some of you may know I’ve been stressing out the past couple weeks over the fact that my employer, Eternal Press, is getting the ability to do Print-On-Demand. Why this stresses me out is, you have to get a new ISBN number for the new format book. I therefore had to research all the information I needed to do that, and go to the Canadian ISBN site and apply for numbers. I’ve run out of numbers several times, but I’m almost done.
Since EP was an Australian company until April 2008, and since Australia’s ISBN agency does not register ISBNs for short stories, my first order of action was to research the old short stories and get *eprint* ISBNs for them… then get print ISBNs for them.
My next step was to take the books (longer length) from May 2008 – October 2008 that we already had print ISBNs for (we THOUGHT we had a deal to do this), and modify the entries to show the new printer.
OK, now I have the OLD short stories and the NEW novels & novellas. I also went ahead and got print ISBNs for November and December 2008 books. Then I had to go research the OLD novels & novellas and the NEW short stories, and get ISBNs for those. OK, I got halfway done and ran out of numbers again, but I’ll have new numbers on Monday and will get the last 32 done.
All that will be left will be to get print ISBNs for our January and February 2009 books, which I just got eprint ISBNs for (but didn’t know what publication date to use for the print copies — my boss filled me in on that information yesterday).
In the meantime, I finished formatting our 8 December books for FictionWise and uploaded them to our online office.
When I get done with this job, it will be time to collect the January books blurbs and excerpts, which I then turn over to the Senior Editor, who then gets more information and turns them over to our newsletter editor, who then turns it all into our January Newsletter.
If all this has made you sweat, perhaps you would like to be receiving our Newsletter… it comes in PDF format, and is delivered to your email. I know I can get you copies, and there is probably a place you can go to sign up for them. Write me and I’ll send you the latest copy I have… I can send several back issues if you like.
Hugs,
Me
Hi Moss, I signed up on this site, just to read your blog. I can sure understand your frustration; glad it is almost over.I am self-publishing in a few months and that’s stressful also…How come you didn’t blog on myspace?Do you read my blogs??? What do you think?Anyway, hope your holidays are free of stress.Muchly,thepamkua or kuulei
@KuaKiloKilo – I blog here because this is the first place I blogged that I liked. MySpace has a crappy blog engine by comparison, including the fact that I can’t use the advanced editor there while in Linux; Xanga’s editor is better and works as well whether I’m in Windoze or Linux. I also am on a number of other blogsites, and keep getting invited to more; I can’t do everything. The only reason I still use MySpace is that I have so many people on my Friends list there… it is successful at drawing crowds, but that does not make it “good”… just makes it harder to quit.I *think* I’m subscribed to your blog, I’ll go check. Re: your self-publishing, have you tried a respectable epress house? I don’t know what kind of things you write, but Eternal Press is always looking for authors. All books are eprinted in most formats (not sure we’re on Kindle yet), and we now have Print On Demand for all books. Eternal Press is really rather new, there are some much older houses out there. The difference between self-publishing and having an epublisher is that you don’t have to do ALL the promotion of your book — if the publisher is respected, their readers will buy most of their books, not just a favorite author’s. Anyhow, just a thought.