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Welcome to readers of the Montrose Style Fall/Winter magazine

dave — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:58:58 +0000

Mt. Sneffels Press is featured on page 19 of the Fall/Winter issue of Montrose (Colorado) Style, a magazine available to travelers, visitors, and residents alike. The article speaks of the books in The Great American Flying Broomstick series, which you can find here. And Narrow Gauge Railroading in the San Juan Triangle is found here. Some material on the coming of The Unexpected Traveler is found here and here. Linda Louise Ashley’s book is here. Beth Paulson’s poetry is here. Paul and Becky McCreary’s book is here. The page for author services, including Carole London, is here. Please enjoy your visit and look around! If you’re buying more than one book at a time, be sure to use the shopping cart feature to save on postage.

Smashwords is the Path to Publishing on iPad and More

dave — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:08:47 +0000

I gave a presentation at a self-publishing workshop last April and mentioned that if you want your indie book in iBookStore, Barnes and Noble, Sony, etc. (but not yet Amazon), then Smashwords is the way to go. You can find April’s presentation here. And, I’m embedding a quick presentation from Smashwords below that provides more detail. And, yes, my Broom books are available in the iBookStore, courtesy Smashwords!

Introduction to Smashwords – Ebook Publishing and Distribution Made Easy

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It’s not hard. Just follow the directions step by step and you’re there. There’s nothing standing between you and seeing your manuscript become an e-book. Although Smashwords doesn’t distribute to Amazon, it’s in negotiations to do so. In the meantime, I distribute through Amazon Kindle directly.

Beth Paulson

dave — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:51:29 +0000

Beth Paulson, Ouray Author and Poet, has joined our Author Services List and has added her book of essays to our Extended Catalog

Beth Paulson has joined our list of extended authors and also offers author services.

Beth’s poems have appeared in many small magazines and national anthologies, and her second book, The Company of Trees, was published in 2004. A former English professor at California State University Los Angeles, she directs poetry events, leads writing and creativity workshops, and lives in Ouray, Colorado, where she writes a column for the Ouray County Plaindealer.

In her writing Beth tries to connect her close observations of the natural world to the questions of the human condition and spirit. In her words, “I try to keep my mind/ on this calling,/ the only way I know/ to save the earth.”

Beth has received several prizes for her poems, including most recently two 2008 Mark Fischer prizes. Her poem, “Hollyhocks,” was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize and her poem, “The Color of Snow,” was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.

See Beth’s website at www.wordcatcher.org. You may order her book of essays, Uniquely Ouray: Reflections on Life in a Mountain County, from our Extended Catalog.

Noalani Terry, Indexer

dave — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:25:19 +0000

Noalani Terry, Indexer, of Whole Life Indexing & Energy Works

Noalani Terry is a professional indexer who provides back-of-the-book and journal indexes. She develops appropriate, consistent, precise, and accurate main entries and subentries, arranged in easily recognizable and searchable order with cross-references, reflecting the author’s presentation of the contents.

Over twenty years in information services and library reference work have given Noalani Terry a broad knowledge base in many subject areas. She has indexed materials and designed information retrieval systems and thesauri for special libraries in fields as diverse as public broadcasting and international agricultural development.

Whole Life Indexing and Energy Works

Noalani Terry is committed to her clients, providing them with quality indexes created to meet their specific requirements, completed on time. Please contact Noalani now via her website in preparation for your next book or journal index. She looks forward to working with you.

Her website: www.wholelifeindexing.com.

Web Fulfillment for Local Authors

dave — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:48:56 +0000

Mt. Sneffels Press now provides web fulfillment for local authors via our Extended Catalog (click image)

At the recent Montrose Small Press Month workshop, I announced that I will do web fulfillment for local authors. By local I mean Delta, Gunnison, Montrose, and Ouray Counties. I’ll do it simply, too.

1. You leave a couple copies of your book with me
2. I will place information about your book into our “Extended Catalog” at list price, along with a PayPal “Buy Now” button.
3. I’ll put up an Author Profile in the “Our Extended Authors” category
4. Customers pay via PayPal; I’ll take care of shipping
5. I’ll be just like a bookstore: I keep 40% of list price, you keep 60%
6. You can pull out at any time—just drop by and pick up your books
7. If I sell out, please get additional copies to me promptly—PayPal will refuse to sell if the inventory drops to zero.

I reserve the usual rights to refuse anything for any reason. If you are interested, please use the “Contact Us” page or the comment form below.

Successful Small Press Month Event

dave — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:13:03 +0000

Marjorie Johnson, standing at far left, reads to the workshop from her book, All About Animals, which she compiled for the Friends of Cedaredge Animal Control

Carole London, owner of Lifetime Chronicle Press and a Montrose, Colorado, local who specializes in helping local authors through the “daunting process of self-publishing,” collaborated with Meg Nagel of the Montrose Public Library to organize a two-Saturday workshop to celebrate March as Small Press Month.

The workshop was filled to capacity and beyond both Saturdays. Carole spoke on the first Saturday about writing and self publishing and Betty McKinney spoke about submitting manuscripts.

This last Saturday, the second of the event, once again found overflow crowds. I spoke about marketing on the Internet, and have put my presentation here. This was followed by a panel discussion (I was on the panel), and the afternoon saw a reading by 20 local authors (including me) and the opportunity to sell books (I sold 16). I also donated a copy each of Broom 1 and Broom 2 to the Montrose Public Library, so stop by and check one out!

My many thanks to Carole for organizing the event!