Marketing Skills You Need to Make it in Publishing
I recently read this Forbes article that lists the three skills you need to make it in the publishing industry, as overheard last week at the FutureBook conference in London. The three skills:...
View ArticlePress Profile: Heather Blain-Yanke
When Heather Blain-Yanke was first hired as a Layout Assistant, almost 40 years ago, WLU Press was known as Academic Publications and printed about 10 books a year. Today, she’s the Production and...
View Article#NaBloPoMo Highlights
#NaBloPoMo has been pretty wild. This month we’ve blogged about everything from the Kitchener-Waterloo area, our latest books and staff members here at WLU Press to the future of the scholarly book and...
View ArticleThe Evolving Elements and Uses of Metadata
So it’s been quite a while since our last blog post. When we wrapped up #NaBloPoMo, we took a (well-deserved!) break. Then we were shut down for a little while over the holidays. But now we’re back...
View ArticleOne Big Blog Post
On January 14th, I invited you to share a journey with me; an adventure deep into the heart of metadata. I told you a bit about the history of metadata and how it’s used for books, that time the...
View ArticleThe Cultural Myth of Hockey in Canada
Here’s a quick recap of how I spent last weekend: Friday afternoon we all went to Moose Winooski’s in Kitchener to watch the Canada/U.S.A. Olympic hockey game, after the victory I drove down to St....
View ArticleNational Poetry Month – Steve McCaffery
The Dangers of Poetry (for Italo Calvino) Maybe you don’t like this poem or perhaps you don’t want to read it perhaps you should do something else like wash last night’s dishes or watch TV if I were...
View ArticleConference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography...
By: Seraphima Kennedy ‘I’m going to let you finish,’ wrote one IABA 2014 delegate on Twitter, ‘but #IABA2014 literally has the best people of all time.’ I could write another piece about the high...
View ArticleConference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography...
By: Seraphima Kennedy What life writing scholarship means in the field, and how scholars engage with both texts and subjects was a key area of concern. Laurie McNeill presented a valuable critique of...
View ArticleConference for the International Association for Biography and Autobiography...
By: Seraphima Kennedy Banff emerged as a sparkling venue for a conference of this size, not only because of the spectacular scenery and great food. The centre is uniquely committed to the promotion of...
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