Hey, we’re having a little summer reading sale — cookbooks, cancer memoir, romance, science fiction, immigrant lit — all on sale! 25% off ebooks, 15% off paperbacks and hardcovers (happy to sign and/or personalize). Enjoy! http://www.serendibshop.com
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Had a good Serendib Press meeting with Stephanie Bailey this morning — I was so hectic this past semester that everything got really disorganized. This summer is hopefully going to be a time to organize things and put them out in a more coherent way going forward. There’s a lot potentially going on: 1) Books
I think I forgot to mention that Kevin caught COVID over the holidays (first time in our family, four days of giant family gatherings were just too much for him) — he was symptomatic and tested positive on the 28th, so he’s now on day 7. Mild symptoms — mostly some fatigue with a bit
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I’m not sure why I thought having the last of the Kickstarter orders, the Shopify orders that have come in recently, the Patreon orders, AND all the flash sale orders get packed and shipped this week was a good idea, but apparently I thought it would be efficient or something? Pictured, a tiny percentage of
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Emmanuel Henderson is here, packing up the books! I could, in theory, pack them all myself, but a) I would cry, and b) I have a lot of e-mail, teaching, grading work that only I can do, so I’m trying to hand off as much as I can to the Serendib Press team. That does
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One of the ongoing projects is to learn how to publish books properly, as a small press, practicing on my own books in part so I can eventually have the option of publishing other people’s. If I’m going to do it, I want to do it right — if I’m going to publish some other
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Library question. We’re putting together the publicity for Feast & Vegan (which launches officially in Oct / Nov, though we will be doing an earlier soft launch), and I think this is a good book of interest to libraries. Is there a list somewhere that we can purchase (or even better, just use) of library
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Playing around with ebook cover design layouts and fonts… Pictured here: Aristelle, Zapfino, Rumble Brave EDITING TO NOTE: Hey, folks, just to be clear — these are all just early drafts! I’m planning to try several more layouts, so don’t get too attached to anything. Feedback is welcome, but maybe no need to fine-tune yet.
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Working with Emmanuel Henderson today on the cover of Silence and the Word — a book of mine from quite some time ago, that will now be available as an ebook, woot! The plan is to try releasing it on Kindle Unlimited, which is new for me — would love to hear anything about the
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Okay, so here are the holiday book recommendations, whether you pick them up at my house this afternoon, or online: – A Feast of Serendib: great for the foodie in your life, esp. if you add in some homemade Sri Lankan curry powder; I also have tea towels, if you want more of a package
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