Jock Brandis, the star of our first book, has a new website! Here it is:

www.JockBrandis.org

Hope you enjoy!

So I have moved most of my discussion of my publishing venture to my new blog for Bunny Love Press. But incase anyone was still looking at this - I have included the latest entry from there. This should catch you up and please check out bunny love press. Thank you so much!


As mentioned earlier, the invention of the Peanut Sheller by Jock Brandis is the subject of our first book, The Promise of Peanuts. I thought I might include the following list of links for some background info on Jock Brandis and the Peanut Sheller. Please browse. If you are interested in supporting this incredible project please consider buying a copy of The Promise of Peanuts and donating it to a local school library. The book should be available for sale in September. Or you can reserve and advance copy by emailing HRHGwenyfar@yahoo.com. Thank you so much.



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Wanted: One Literary Movement

Wanted: One Literary Movement

Must Be: New, unsigned, ground breaking and preferably bound for immortal glory.

Compensation includes publishing deal, spin off books, possible merchandising, and potential to become a cheap literary allusion for young writers to lean on (either your titles or your names).

Movements that have their own names will command a higher compensation package than those yet to be named. Please nothing too self-descriptive, an effective name for a literary movement should only make sense to an English Ph.D. candidate, and of course no member of the movement would ever advertise themselves as such, though they would happily capitalize on it.

Applicants please respond to HRHGwenyfar@Gmail.com

The City Lights Model

So I have been thinking about successful independent presses. The most successful that leaps to mind, is of course, City Lights Books. Somehow they made it in the one area of literature that no one makes money – poetry! So if one were to follow the City Lights Model (CLM) as we will now call it, one would need to:

1. Lead a literary movement
2. Someone get arrested
3. Fight the charges on the first amendment
4. Win the case, which then become the precedent for obscenity cases in modern America
5. Bob Dylan writes a song about
6. Become an American Institution

That sounds pretty simple, right? So I guess the first thing I need to do is advertise for a literary movement, once I have that the rest should fall into place.

Ramblings... the genisis of good ideas

About 4 years ago I started kicking around the idea of starting a publishing company. I wrote the business plan and, and, and, got side tracked. To be quite honest, I am not sure how it happened…. But over Thanksgiving weekend it hit me that I had the wonderful obsolete business plan and I .. I .. I What? I should do something with me life… which of course turned into a whole host of existential questions. But came back to a publishing company. Not a bad Idea, now that I am employed again, I have a hope of paying off enough debt to put out a book, right? Right.

The Business plan is simple: Put out the first manuscript, then another. In ten years, take over Random House.

But anyway, back to the publishing company. I owned an herbal tea company while I was in college, and I retain the rights to the name. So I think temporarily that is going to work into the name for the publishing company, but I don’t know. I’ll get back to you on that. I have a first author and part of a manuscript, no it is not me. Though having successfully published my own book, Your Health is in Your Kitchen, taught me a lot about the publishing world and convinced me to give this a whirl, as they say.

Our first book will be titled Four Minutes in the Evening. It is a collection of fabulous short stories written by an author that I met through a strange series of twists and turns. The premise is that most couples don’t have enough quality time together anymore. But we could always find 4 minutes to read each other some bedtime stories. The stories cannot mention credit cards, debt, bills, or children, since these can be intense stressors in a relationship.

I’ll post a couple of sample stories in the next month for you to look through.

A lovely, talented and well known tattoo artist, named Sarah Peacock has agreed to illustrate it. I asked Sarah for a variety of reasons:
1. I know her work and it is pitch perfect
2. She had expressed interest in branching out to illustrations
3. As a tattoo artist she comes with a built in following that would be interested in the book because she illustrated it, people who might not look twice at it before.
4. Having a tattoo artist as an illustrator opens up different markets for promotion and reviews.

So here we are the first week:
Necessary features: Manuscript, artist, press, me. Still need a good name. I have numerology and astrology issues that will make this more complicated than necessary, but c’est la vie.