Category Archives: Publishing

What are the different forms of publishing?

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IBPA Publishing MAP (Models and Author Pathways)

An overview and resource for the book publishing industry and for authors looking at different pathways to getting their creative works published.

IBPA’s goal is to educate and advocate for our members, and we also look to provide trusted resources that can help promote sound business practices, collaboration, and quality publishing across the industry. The IBPA Publishing MAP is one more way in which we can advance that goal.

Launched in February 2024, the IBPA Publishing MAP is available as a free PDF resource for the entire publishing community.

The West Australian’s Charlotte Elton interviews Hague Publishing’s Andrew Harvey (and others) for an article on WA’s publishing industry during covid

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Cover of West Aust and Insider insertWe’re included in the West Australian’s ‘Insider’ insert today (26 Aug 2021) on WA’s publishing industry. If you have access to ‘The West’, check out Charlotte’s story, ‘As the Page Turns’, starting on page 24 of the Insider’s insert. I think we’ve been quoted something like 4 times throughout the course of the article. One small mistake I do need to point out, we do actually release ALL our books as both eBook and POD nowadays.

A full copy of the article is now available as a pdf from the following link. Please be aware that the file is 84 Mb, but I’m working towards a transcript.

https://haguepublishing.com/publicity/Insider%20-%20As%20the%20page%20turns.pdf

Hague Publishing accepting submissions in June and July

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Typewriter and the words 'Open call for submissions'Hague Publishing is seeking previously unpublished Science Fiction or Fantasy manuscripts by new or established Australian and New Zealand authors. This year we have amended our submission guidelines and ask all prospective authors to purchase a book from Hague Publishing before submission. This is partly to contribute a small amount to the hours of reading many submissions, partly so you are familiar with our list, and partly to support fellow Australian and New Zealand artists.

How to submit

Please read our submissions guideline (http://haguepublishing.com/submission.shtml).

Complete manuscripts are to be submitted via our online submissions system at http://haguepublishing.com/submit/index.php.

Further information about our publishing process (including a link to our standard contract) can be found at http://haguepublishing.com/publishing.shtml.

About Hague Publishing

Hague Publishing was established in 2011 as an independent Australian publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It is registered in Western Australia, and publishes original work by Australian and New Zealand authors.

Hague Publishing is not a vanity press, and adheres to the Independent Book Publishers Association Code of Ethics. We pay royalties to those authors whose work we accept for publication. Authors are not charged for any part of the publication process.

We publish both eBooks and paperbacks. Using Print on Demand our paperbacks are available to purchase from Amazon.com, our own online shop at https://www.shop.haguepublishing.com/, and throughout the world using Ingram’s Global Connect Program. Our eBooks are available through all major international eBook distributors.

Book reviews are important

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The following was extracted from Judith Briles’ guest post entitled ‘As the Author World Turns on Amazon Book Review Policies’ on Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer. The Blog was posted 21 March 2019.

Authors need reviews on their books. Lots of them.

Once, there are 25, the [Amazon’s] robots warm up. More than 50, expect to see cross promotion: book covers pop up on “like” books … “Customers who bought this item also bought …” meaning that your book cover gets displayed on other author pages.

As your reviews build up (think more than 75), Amazon does email blast, suggesting your book cover with the live link to viewers of the site that have shown an “interest” in your category with their searches. How cool is that?

So yes, reviews do count. Big time.

While Judith has anecdotal evidence supporting her claims about the effect of Amazon reviews the comments under the post make clear that this is a contentious area, and even if Judith is correct, as she wrote in response to one comment: “Guaranteed – Amazon always changes its system. What is good today, may not be next week.”

Anecdotally, however, I just got an email blast from Amazon.com suggesting I might like Melissa F. Olson’s new book Boundary Broken which had, when I checked 69 reviews. OK, OK, Amazon knows that I’ve bought the previous three books in the series, but still ….

Anyway, regardless of how important reviews are, I think any author would agree that any positive review is helpful, and the more the better.

https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2019/03/oh-my-as-the-author-world-turns-on-amazon-book-review-policies/