Poland’s Agata Zubel is the essential contemporary composer-performer, a soprano who knows her music from “both sides” of the process — creation and interpretation. In this #MusicForWriters installment prepared with the support of Q2 Music, she talks about her newly released album, Not I.
“It’s time to back off a bit on the arguments for self-publishing,” says author-activist Hugh Howey. “It’s over. We can coexist now.” And with that, one of the most prominent of the indie authors in self-publishing today calls on his followers to hold their fire. The most important points, Howey says, have been made and understood.
Author Barbara Freethy is the best-of-the-bestselling indie authors in Amazon’s KDP program. She has sold 4.8 million ebooks. But until now she hasn’t been able to break the “bookstore barrier.” Now, her books are going into bookshops and other print venues with the help of Ingram Publisher Services.
As international publishing trade executives convene at Frankfurt Book Fair, the universally recognized International Standard Book Number is being weakened by resistance to its use from self-publishers — meaning we no longer can “see” how big the books industry really is.
Featured in Q2 Music’s Album of the Week, globe-trotting clarinettist David Krakauer talks about his new recording of Osvaldo Golijov’s ‘The Dreams And Prayers Of Issac The Blind’ with A Far Cry. And mysticism sure starts at Stonehenge for a lot of us.
After nine years with the company, the affable director of author and publisher relations is moving on, his wry honesty echoing in the industry: “The good news is that today everybody can publish a book. The bad news is that today everybody an publish a book.”
As the world’s largest publishing trade-show event nears, the artists and industrialists of the book world are looking for pathways to progress in a digitally revamped world.
Offering full editorial and production support, Pan Macmillan Australia’s Momentum is just that — faster to market. Because it’s digital-only. And DRM-free. And accepts unagented submissions. Worldwide.
In her newly recorded suite The Violin, composer Anna Clyne finds collaboration with her musicians and with artist Josh Dorman — and with the wisdom of her late mother’s poetry.
As his Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities prepares to co-host a major international conference, Stony Brook University’s Michael Kimmel, a prolific author, talks about why it’s important for men’s studies to be seen as “a legitimate enterprise in universities.”