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Join Us for Local Author Day
Open Door Publications will have a booth at this year’s Princeton Library Local Author Day. The event will be this Saturday, March 19, at the Library on Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Come out from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and check out all of the authors who will be there. You’ll have an opportunity to…
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Good Enough: Our Newest Book
Open Door Publications is proud to announce the publication of Good Enough: One’s Man’s Memoir on the Price of the Dream is the newest book from Open Door Publications. It is written by Dr. Leon Bass, a former high school principal and veteran of World War II who has dedicated much of his life as…
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Memoir vs. Autobiography: Which One is For You?
Memoir: a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.* Autobiography: an account of a person’s life written or otherwise recorded by that person.* Many of us have a desire to sum up our lives, to leave a record for those who are to come; in…
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And Even More on Indie Bookstores ….
So news about independent bookstores is springing up so fast, I can hardly keep up! Here’s a site to help you locate your closest independent bookstore. The site also mentions Google Ebooks. More on that soon. It’s a great time to be writing books!
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Resurgance of Independent Bookstores Predicted
With the announcement of Borders’ bankruptcy, many people are predicting the death of the bookstore. But the financial problems of large chains may give rise to a “new” idea – the small independent, community bookstore. Rest assured, the book is not dead. More people are reading than ever, they are just buying their books in…
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What's a Magbook?
It’s time for you English language purists to cringe again. I’ve got a new word for you: Magbook, and you are going to be hearing more about them in the future. What’s a Magbook? Well, it’s part magazine, part book of course. A softbound, magazine-sized book focusing on a particular subject area, the word is…
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Your Creative Team
I’ve often said that writing is a solitary experience, but once you have completed the actual writing process and have a complete – or almost complete – manuscript, you need to begin to develop a creative team that will help you move your work from manuscript to published book. But who should be on…
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Hear Author Gwen Faulkner on the Radio
On Wednesday, December 1st, Gwen Faulkner will be a guest on Keys to Cash Radio Show. Key’s to Cash, Autism’s Key to the Cure, is a new organization that is raising money for autism research. Their goal is to start a nation wide Key Drive where people are ask to recycle their old keys. Money generated…
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Manuscript Submission Do's and Don't
It really doesn’t matter if you are the next Jack Canfield or Steven Covey, if you don’t follow proper submission guidelines for your publisher or agent, your manuscript will go unread. While there are many tales of authors (J.K. Rowling, for instance) scribbling their work on restaurant napkins, when it came time to send their work to…
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A New Program: Time Out for Writers
What’s the most common complaint I hear from writers? “I never have time to write!” Well, I’m working to take that excuse away from you! Here are two hours you can set aside each month just to write. Open Door Publications is starting a new program for our New Jersey writing friends. Time Out for Writers will be…
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The "Why" Behind the Book
By Noelle Stary 20 Lemons Marketing Think about the last book you bought. How did you hear about the book? Perhaps a friend told you to read it or the book caught your eye on the New York Times Best Seller List. Now, ponder this: Have you ever considered how important it is for the author…
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Self Publishing versus Do-It-Yourself Publishing
If you read some of the advertising written by some online publishers these days, you’ll hear that you can now publish a book for virtually no money and have it available for sale within a few weeks, or even days. This do-it-yourself approach is possible, but is it really right for you? That depends on…
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Should You Publish Your Book Electronically?
If you’ve followed the newsletters and blog entries at Open Door Publications in the last year or so you might think that our answer to that question would be a resounding, “Yes! Of course everyone should have their book available electronically.” You’d be wrong. Yes, e-books and electronic readers such as the Kindle are certainly…
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Coming in October: Our First Book of Poetry
Open Door Publications will publish its first book of poetry in October. When We Were Perfect, poems by Dayle Herstik, are about laughter and sadness and the joys of the simple things in life – an icecream cone in June, a walk with a grandchild. Dayle describes her poems as “snapshots in time” that follow her…
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Our First Two Kindle Books!
Open Door Publications is pleased to announce the publication of its first two Kindle books! Project Management: A Primer, and Building the 21st Century Child became available Sept. 1 at Amazon.com. Congratulations to authors Jean-Bertrand Casseus and Ronald V. Shuali.
