This is the last time I’m doing this
I got my hair cut last week and as I was getting up from the chair, he asked if six weeks out would be good. “God willing,” I said and he turned to me and asked, “Why do you always say that?” “Because...
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Horace Walpole To The Letter
In mid-April, I visited Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, the former country home of author Horace Walpole, a new section of which has recently been opened to tours after an extensive restoration effort...
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Dante & Shelley at the Duomo di Milano
Sculpture on the Duomo di Milano. Ordering books online has become an unrestrained habit—the ease of being able to click and buy (and have the material within two days sans delivery fee) is highly...
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Honoré de Balzac, A Legacy
The door to Honore de Balzac’s study. I stood to the side as the others on the tour filed into the study of La Maison de Balzac, the museum dedicated to the famous French novelist and playwright Honoré...
View ArticleWhere book titles come from
One of the most agonizing tasks an author has to do is title his/her book. Nothing seems right, then everything seems right. You have the perfect title but the cover design just isn’t working....
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The Road to Promise
Muriel Antoine, Sicangu Sioux, in ceremonial dress. In August 1990, I met a visionary woman named Muriel Antoine, whose home I visited in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Reservation. I was...
View ArticleJoAnn Locktov On Publishing
We’re kicking off our series of interviews with publishers we admire with JoAnn Locktov of Bella Figura Publications. I was intrigued by something she said during a conversation recently, which helped...
View ArticleTripFiction is a Trip!
Sharktooth Press is launching our “Sites We Like” series today as a way to share industry influencers who love books as much as we do. First on the roster is TripFiction. TripFiction TripFiction is a...
View ArticleThoughts on Libreria Studium
We introduced you to publisher JoAnn Locktov in this post about her thinking when she was strategizing publishing her book Dream of Venice in Black and White. Today, she is sharing with Sharktooth...
View ArticleMeeting the Authors in Focus
Continuing our series “Sites we Like,” today we introduce you to “Meeting the Authors” in case you have not already found the website that is chock full of intelligently written author interviews, book...
View ArticleBrowsing Books & Books
As we continue our series on browsing our favorite indie bookstores here on the Sharktooth Press blog, we’ll be reaching out to lovers of books we know to share with us their picks (if you have a...
View ArticleDesigner Experience Zooming Along
We’re thrilled that our co-founder, Saxon Henry, will be moderating the panel “Writing and Publishing Your Book: From concept to completion to consumption, authors share how they got it done” during...
View ArticlePrint on Demand
You’ve created your PDF file, uploaded into both KDP (Amazon.com) and Ingram, your book has been approved for inclusion on the Amazon.com store and for indie bookstores to order for their shelves. Yay,...
View ArticlePublishing is a Journey
Whether you are about to publish your first book or you have a number of titles to your credit, publishing is a journey. In the six years since we have been publishing books, we have learned just how...
View ArticleTactile
I was listening to music yesterday when a flash of inspiration hit. Not so much a flash, but a tactile moment when the words of my feelings and thoughts insisted on flooding down into my iPhone. I...
View ArticleBookshop Dot Org
Continuing our “Sites We Like” series today, we share with our readers the incredible Bookshop.org, an online portal that financially supports local, independent bookstores. Not only can you shop the...
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