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Book sales: Who gets the money?
Plus: why some small publishers are disappearing, and my two methods for pricing books
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Haunting lines, with Jeffrey Loffman
Two poems, with commentary, from our second publication of 2023
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Readers' questions: Distribution & publicity
Plus: why publishing is analogous to cooking up a big vat of baked beans
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The Valley Press Author Contract
2024 edition – the legal side of publishing, out on the "line" in broad daylight
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September submissions: a halfway Q&A
All your mid-window questions answered; plus, some behind-the-scenes gossip
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How to be a small press publisher
The ultimate, definitive guide – a work in progress
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Why you should become a small press publisher
Give a few hundred authors their "forever home", help lapsed readers turn off Netflix, and boost your own writing career
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Springing forward, with Thomas Legendre
A multimedia journey through the author's digital, philosophical, ice-hockey-adjacent world
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By the Book: Jamie McGarry at Valley Press
By the Book: Jamie McGarry at Valley Press
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