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HER LATEST BOOK: Mental Midgets | Musqonocihte   This TWIN book is a collection of factoids, thoughts, quips, code, quotes, photos, thought bombs, creative non-fiction, Native American history and prose. And it’s short.   Musqonichte translates Blue Sky. ISBN: 9781731074010 First Edition FREE BOOK REVIEW PDF: Shoot me an email. (laratrace@outlook.com) If you want to buy a signed copy, paypal me: $6.00 (send money to laratrace@outlook.com via paypal) Available at this website via the Amazon links. Here is the Preface: Preface “We could not understand the invaders, or their numbers, or what they wanted. Not at first.   We tried everything.   We could not understand them. We tried to make peace, as best we could.   Communicating, language was always a problem. They took captives so we took captives.   They shot us where we stood.   We shot back.   They hunted us like wolves and deer.   They hid our bo...

This makes too much sense... too much OVER THE TOP marketing and 1 million new books a year - this has obviously tanked our author's book sales. And you know what? We here at Blue Indians will continue, as we have since 2011... we will NOT stop. I have a short book out now. And plan more.   Trace THIS is the most important commentary on publishing I have EVER read.↓ A Writer’s Choice to Be Borderline Invisible Small presses and editions remind us that that we’re free to stay below the radar in an age of self-promotion. John Yau “Hell0 Please Remove Shoes” (all images courtesy Margaret Galey) Cid Corman started the magazine Origin in 1951. With a few interruptions, he continued to publish it until 1984, often while he was living outside of the United States, in Matera, Italy, and Kyoto, Japan. As far as I know, Corman, who believed there were only 300 people who read poetry, did not increase the size of the edition as the years passed. Many of h...

Graywolf Press   is one of many independent presses that have found their place in the shadow of bigger publishing houses. In the past few years, Graywolf has released some of the most groundbreaking American nonfiction. Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, which won the 2015 National Books Critics Circle award, complicated notions of sexuality and desire with tender, cutting prose. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric conveyed a sense of exhaustion of American racial harassment and violence that resonated with many readers. The Argonauts and Citizen are each less than 160 pages long. They’re built from fragments and vignettes that don’t so much combine genres—personal essay, critical theory, poetry, and photography—as they put them into a blender and shred them. Both play with method and perspective to offer insight into crucial subjects: One explores what it’s like to love a fluidly gendered person, the other grieves the continued killings of black citizens...

11-11 is the anniversary of the very first book we did for John Christian Hopkin's book Twilight of the Gods ! What is the 5-5-5 rule:  500 words a day or 5 pages of edits,  five days a week.  By Trace Lara Hentz, founder of Blue Hand Books and Blue Indians Collective I saved this 5-5-5 rule on my Boom blog. It sounded like a good idea, at the time, but I really don't follow it. I keep a spiral notebook, a small blank book in my bedroom - it is where I write down my dreams or thoughts when I wake up or right before I sleep. It's crazy how some of my best ideas happen this way - right before or right after. I've even dreamed book cover art this way. I draw diagrams usually. And I keep a blank book in the living room on the couch where I read, crochet and watch moves and very little TV.  It has notes, ideas, thought bombs, song titles, movie titles, quotes, silly stuff, movie lines, books I want to buy and lots of other things I want to ...

Indie authors are being targeted by thieves who impersonate them online, then collect royalties on their books. Learn how to detect and stop book counterfeiting. Long story made short, Amazon may confiscate royalties from infringing copies of your book and pay them to you, but you’ll need to follow their procedures to the letter: You must fill out Amazon’s online copyright infringement complaint form , or send a written claim to Amazon’s legal department . You must file a separate complaint for each Amazon territory (Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.in, etc.) You must explicitly request reassignment of the infringing copy’s royalties. Amazon rarely volunteers this information, so it pays to be aware of your rights. MUST READ: Piracy, Plagiarism, and Impersonation - Part 3 of 3 | Alliance of Independent Authors: Self-Publishing Advice Center

9 Publishing Organizations that Promote Diversity Within the Industry LINK This blog post is part of Chronicle Books blog's ongoing Diversity in Publishing series, focusing on the need for inclusion, equity, and diverse voices within the book industry. Read more posts here . In the same way that diverse talent databases have started emerging in recent years, so too have a number of organizations dedicated to helping do the much-needed work of diversifying book publishing . It’s encouraging to see these groups of passionate individuals who are organizing and working for change in our industry, and the exciting array of resources, programs, networks, platforms, and events they’re creating. CLICK ON LINKS Below↓ Children’s Book Council Diversity Committee In addition to promoting diverse voices, the CBC Diversity group strives to open up the publishing industry to a wider range of employees through recruitment, career fairs, and ...

Monday, March 26, 2018 - 'I'll publish it myself': Native zines   In the age when people publish instantly on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and their own blogs, it might be difficult to see where zines--low-tech, photocopied, self-published magazines--have a place. But they're still around. You might find them laying around at your local coffee shop or alternative bookstore. The zine publisher might print one out and mail it to you. Kayla Shaggy's (Diné and Anishinaabe) zine, "Monstrous," is filled with drawings of monsters. She says the format offers "the freedom to do what you want." Self-publishing something that people can hold in their hands is part of the reason for doing it. We'll talk with Native zine makers about why self-publishing a few copies with limited reach is their favorite way to get their creative work out.   NEXT MONDAY! Go to Native American Calling on SoundCloud: https://sound...

December 2017 For Immediate Release GREENFIELD, MASS- Tragic, true, heartbreaking, astonishing... those words have been used to describe the anthology Two Worlds , the first book to expose in first-person detail the adoption practices that have been going on for years under the guise of caring for destitute Indigenous children in North America. What really happened and where are these Native children now?  The new updated Second Edition of TWO WORLDS (Vol. 1), with narratives from Native American and First Nations adoptees, covers the history of Indian child removals in North America, the adoption projects, their impact on Indian Country, the 60s Scoop in Canada and how it impacts the adoptee and their families. "This book changed history," say editor Trace Hentz. "There is no doubt in my mind the adoption projects were buried and hidden... we adoptees are the living proof." The Lost Children Book Series includes: Two Worl...