CraftyPod #77: Publishing a Craft Book, with Christina Loff and Kate McKean
Welcome to the CraftyPod, a craft podcast all about making stuff.
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In this show:
- Interviews with Christina Loff, a publicist at Chronicle Books, and Kate McKean, a literary agent.
- Find out what really goes into writing and publishing a craft book.
- Discussion of agents: do you need one?
- And how has the blogosphere affected craft book publishing?
Bookish Links:
- Visit Chronicle Books online.
- Christina Loff has a blog and an Etsy shop.
- Kate McKean can be found online at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency website.
- Kate mentioned Publishers Marketplace as great resource for keeping track of craft book deals.
- Christina mentioned Publisher’s Weekly.
- Here’s a good outline of what goes into a book proposal.
- Here’s a very thorough article on proposal writing.
- Definitely read this post on book proposals from an editor’s view, at the Chronice Books Blog.
- And read this post on knitgrrl - even more perspectives from an author of many craft books.
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20080929 9:44 am
I loved podcast. My husband is a writer, and no one really tells you what you should expect from an agent when it comes to publishing fiction. We were in the dark about it for a very long time. I’m currently unemployed and thought writing a book would be good for my mini-retirement. Now I see it is probably better to get that primary job back to support my crafting career. Sister Diane, you totally scared me, but not completely out of trying to publish a book. I’ve got a question if you do a part II for this podcast for crafty bloggers. How do you separate your “secret book stuff” from your everyday crafting? I’ve seen a bunch of crafty blogs take a hit in new material once they get a book deal. Thanks for the links too!
20080930 3:12 pm
Fantastic! I’m going to tell my friend who’s working on a kids’ cook book to give a listen.
20081001 9:09 am
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20081010 9:20 pm
This was a great podcast, Diane! You rock. I would love to hear about this topic again!
Also, I will be thanking you in the acknowledgements if I ever write a craft book! :)
20081017 3:08 pm
Thank you so much for this great podcast! Even though I have a book published (”cookie sensations”) and I went through so much of this familiar territory from proposal to agent to book, I adore Chronicle Books and dream to publish with them one day, so the interview was wonderfully informative. thank you thank you!
20081022 8:54 am
Thanks for another great podcast filled excellent advice. I’d never heard of Publishers Marketplace, so I’m definitely checking that out. And the interview with Christina sparked several ideas for self-promoting a book. I needed a kick in the seat of the pants to get me moving on this book idea, and your podcast was just the thing — thanks!
20081227 4:30 am
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20090222 9:26 am
Fantastic. I’ll be linking to this on dudecraft.com today.
Really informative. Really helpful.
Thanks!
Paul