Scribes’ Tribe Scribblings

Thanks to everyone who posted a question or comment on Monday. I know some of you had trouble getting a password. If you are having a problem, you can email me at margodll@aol.com, and I will post your question/comment for you. Your name will be put in for the free critique. Now, on to the […]

Hello writing friends,
Put down those barbeque tongs! We interrupt your summer to announce that past President of the Missouri Writers’ Guild Margo Dill Balinski (http://www.margodill.com/index.html) will be guest blogging right here this week.
Margo (writing as Margo L. Dill) is a freelance writer, children’s author, and elementary school teacher, living in Mahomet, Illinois. Her work has […]

NPR on Book Returns
National Public Radio (NPR) produced a piece June 13 about the issue of book returns. To listen to this six-minute piece, visit www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91461568 and click the “Listen Now” button.
Simon & Schuster Signs on with LibreDigital
Simon & Schuster has joined with LibreDigital, who will provide digital distribution for the publisher’s electronic content. Ellie […]

One in Twenty Buy Kindle e-Book Rather than Print Version
At the 2008 BookExpo America convention, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos revealed that one in 20 people buy the electronic version of a book rather than the printed version. However, Kindle e-book sales account for only 6 percent of overall sales titles “where two versions – a […]

From Scribes’ Tribe Member, Joy Wooderson:
I had the pleasure of attending the West Coast Publication Party in Los Angeles on April 10 to celebrate the Spring 2008 issue of The Truth About The Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction published by Loyola Marymount University. My piece “Bougainvillea and Barbed Wire: A Former Citizen Looks at […]

Lately, I’ve seen more and more video trailers for books. You’ll find them on author’s websites and, of course, on youtube. Here’s a couple of links to get you started:

Cursed by Moonlight by Melissa Lopez
Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes Book Trailer
Alexandra Sokoloff THE PRICE
I’d be interested to know how many hits these trailers […]

Amazon has sent an open letter to “interested parties,” explaining “what we’re changing with print on demand and why we are doing so.” Amazon has caused a major stir in the pod field with its decision to have publishers who want to sell pod titles directly through its Web site use its BookSurge pod subsidiary.
See […]

On one of the Publishers Weekly blogs, Alison Morris comments on a new law in Indiana that will require any businesses that sell “sexually explicit material” to register with the state government.
Read about it here: Could Nudity Harm Indiana’s Minors, Booksellers?
Good heavens, are they serious??
Here is an update from ABFFE (American Booksellers Foundation […]

I have it on good authority (my agent) that more and more publishers are reviewing mss on e-readers.
What might this mean? For one thing, the ability to submit more mss via email instead of all those weighty hard copies getting sent back and forth and maybe or maybe not getting recycled when they are […]

I am very very VERY excited to announce that long-time Scribes’ Tribe member, Joy Wooderson, has had her essay, “Bougainvillea and Barbed Wire: A Former Citizen Looks at the New South Africa” accepted for spring 2008 publication in The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Creative Non-Fiction.
Joy’s email to us said she […]