HeyJaredNotes from a Small Press
Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.
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Backstage at Belt (opens the original)
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Andrew and Phoebe both tabled (unfortunate verb) at book fairs last weekend. Andrew handled Cleveland’s Inkubator conference, and Phoebe repped us at Chicago’s Printers Row. Both were great successes, with folks buying books, learning about us, chatting with Phoebe or Andrew, signing copies of the books they themselves had written for us, and, best of all, telling us how much they love Belt and appreciate what we do. Particularly in Chicago; that city’s unsolicited love for Belt is truly extraor
What I’ve Been Reading (opens the original)
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Last week, I sent a mash note to an author. It’s a thing people are always saying you should do, and sometimes I do! This one was on behalf of my son, who read a comics series about public libraries over and over when he was little; today he’s a public librarian. I’ve urged him a few times to write the author with this story but he thinks that’s lame. So I did it, on his behalf. And guess what, the author wrote back and told me he reads this newsletter! And is reading a Belt book! (Hi Gene!) So
The Voyage of a book (opens the original)
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When Andrew Wittkop sent us a cold query over a year ago, I read it with curiosity, eyebrows both raised and furrowed. This one was unlike the others. Andrew was proposing to write an unconventional history of two women, whom very few know about today. They met in what is now the upper penninsula of Michigan in the 1830s. The 1830s! I thought. It was wilderness then. Not only that, but one of the women (Anna Jameson) was an author from England who would run in the same circles as Ada Lovelace an
What I've Been Reading (opens the original)
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After taking a few weeks off in June, I found that I was simply…not reading the various articles and essays about publishing that I come across daily, and often writing about here. I think AI has been the tipping point—the barrage of issues, complications, prophesies, histories, and outrage have overwhelmed me. I joked that I have decided to stop having opinions, and this one simple trick relaxed me more than anything else I’ve tried. Who needs massage when you can simply not know or care? I am
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