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Ooligan Press Write to Publish Conference

Join Ooligan Press on Friday, May 29, for a full day of education on publishing for writers and a free informational open house! Seminars will be offered on subjects including copyright, finding a publisher, polishing your manuscript, self… Continue

Added by Karen Brattain on May 14, 2009 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Six good technological ideas for improving publishing

I'm always finding great articles and videos from BoingBoing about Publishing. Here's a great video about ways to address the inevitable future of publishing:

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Added by Cliff N. Hansen on April 6, 2009 at 5:58am — No Comments

New podcast

Classroom Management Podcast for Teachers Continue

Added by Ruth Wells / Youth Change Workshops on March 30, 2009 at 12:49pm — No Comments

Vitage children's books

Here's a great website devoted to introducing us to vintage childrens books that remain interesting: http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/ Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on March 9, 2009 at 5:34pm — No Comments

Colors

Do different colors make you respond differently? http://lifehacker.com/5147887/color-study-suggests-red-aids-recall-blue-boosts-creativity Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on February 7, 2009 at 4:17pm — No Comments

children's graphics

Here's some royalty free graphics for children's stuff. The resolution is low, but maybe with Illustrator's auto-trace feature... Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on January 22, 2009 at 2:49am — No Comments

Though I'm an atheist, I can't help but look forward to the upcoming Book of Genesis graphic novel.…

Though I'm an atheist, I can't help but look forward to the upcoming Book of Genesis graphic novel. A literal adaptation of the first chapter in the bible, it's been years in the making and should come out in fall of 2009. I've always loved mythology and the Old Testament's God vs. Humanity story makes for great potential in a graphic novel. Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on January 14, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Yellow

Pantone predicts that this shade of yellow will be the color of 2009. What are your thoughts? It's bright and happy,… Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on December 29, 2008 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Best covers of the year

Here's a site with some of the best book covers of the year. Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on December 2, 2008 at 6:56pm — No Comments

Advice for publishers

Here's a really good op-ed post giving advice to publishers in a changing world that I agree with completely. Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on December 2, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Fell Fonts

Here's a beautiful (and free!) font, the Fell family. It has a tried-and-true historical feeling to it and all sorts of features. The font is free although there are some restrictions such as the need to refrence it when you use the font, but never-the-less I can see myself enjoying this one! Check it out here! Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on December 1, 2008 at 5:43am — No Comments

Software for publishers

Life Hacker, a website I visit frequently, just had a review about a program called TextFlow which is designed to make collaboration a lot easier. I've not used it yet, but it sounds promising. Check out the article, and let me know how the program works if you try it out! Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on November 25, 2008 at 6:50pm — No Comments

Environmental Paper

Here's a review from Creative Pro talking about an upcoming paper rating system that labels paper based on environmental options. They have another that describes environmental inks. Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on November 2, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments

Tangled up in blue

Check out an amazing book cover at http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on November 1, 2008 at 7:02am — No Comments

Sherman Alexie on Colbert

Pacific Northwest author Sherman Alexie was on the Colbert Report recently to talk about his new book. Check it out online at http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=189697. Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on October 30, 2008 at 7:48pm — No Comments

Using my editing skills in a new way...

I have been in Daegu, South Korea for nearly a week working at an English Language school named E.C.C. For all you editors out there, this is a really interesting (and challenging) way of using your editing skills. I am working with kindergarten through middle-school students. Back in Portland I would spend hours ensuring that documents had the correct em or en dashes, here I help students understand why there is no "twenteen". For those of you having trouble finding good publishing jobs, someth… Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on September 11, 2008 at 4:37am — 2 Comments

KitLit Bloggers Confrence

I just received this email abotu a bloggers confrence in Portland that may be of some interest to you. Things are definitely changing with computers and the internet with respect to children's literature and this confrence will address it. Here is the email: ---------------- The following message was sent to the JacketFlap friends of Tracy Grand: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming conference focused on blogs and children's / YA books - the second annual Kidlit Bloggers Conference. You… Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on September 11, 2008 at 4:30am — No Comments

Publishing Guru Dan Poynter Coming to Portland

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Added by Carol White / RLI Press on September 10, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Authonomy

A new site from Harper Collins is opening up that will be a "global slush pile" combining social networking with manuscripts where readers can support books they want to see and publishers can comb through for new material. This promises to be interesting. Check it out! Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on September 2, 2008 at 3:05pm — 1 Comment

Comment Snob

For those of you who make sure that even your text messages uphold the Chicago standards there's a new FireFox extension you might be interested in: YouTube Comment Snob. Its customizable interface lets you literally block comments from YouTube videos that contain too much punctuation, no capitals, all capitals, or too many spelling errors (you can choose how much is too much). Continue

Added by Cliff N. Hansen on August 29, 2008 at 10:51am — No Comments