C.B. Lee's Blog, page 122

A Lasting Dedication

interludepress:

Three weeks ago, we lost one of the founding partners of this company. But Lex Huffman was much more than a business partner, or an IT expert, or a passionate practitioner of typography. Lex was a kind soul who set the tone for this company, for what we are trying to be.

Lex had many talents, but he loved publishing books. He wanted to read the books he couldn’t find growing up: stories where the fact that a character was gay, or lesbian, or transgender, or bisexual, or any...

interludepress:Join us September 21st at 1 pm ET when we talk...

interludepress:

Join us September 21st at 1 pm ET when we talk LGBTQ Romantic Fiction with Bold Strokes Books and Publishers Weekly.

The live webcast will feature Rose Fox, PW senior reviews editor; Candysse Miller, publisher/director of marketing and communication for Interlude Press; and Ruth Sternglantz, editorial and marketing consultant for Bold Strokes Books for a deep dive into LGBTQ romance.

We’ll spend the hour exploring the many facets of the genre, including the importance of happy...

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"If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t..."

“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It will always be with them.”

- Loretta Lost, Clarity
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On buying books and supporting authors

interludepress:

itslaurastone:

[I hope you don’t mind me publishing your fanmail!]

First off, LET ME INFORM YOU that you have jumped past my kids in my Last Will & Testament because not a one of them have tried to buy my book. ;)

Second, I’m traditionally published, which means I have a publishing contract, and my publisher is contractually obligated to pay me x% of each book sale based off net proceeds for the price THEY set the book to be, be that a physical book or an eBook. (When Am...

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christian redongo, teahupo'o


billy kemper, pipeline


reef mcintosh, pipeline


kalani chapman, teahupo'o


albee layer, jaws

How to Design a Town Map - Fantastic Maps

How to Design a Town Map - Fantastic Maps:

patchpaws:

I found this very useful. Sometimes it’s great to have a visual aid of the layout of the settlements, towns or cities where your stories develop. It’s good to have an idea of the distance between places and their position within the town; this way, it might be easier to describe the routes your characters travel, noting buildings that might be relevant to the story later or relating other characters to certain areas of a city.

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"Why, after all, do writers write? What is the impulse, the insistence on story, on seeing and..."

“Why, after all, do writers write? What is the impulse, the insistence on story, on seeing and representing the world? It has little to do with technology although everything to do with narrative, which is a purpose that, on the surface, technology also seems to share. The difference is that the writer creates narrative with intention, whereas technology merely gathers, or processes, information, leaving interpretation, analysis, up to us.”

- Let’s just say David L. Ulin doesn’t think Joyce w...

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