by Tor Roxburgh | Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Marketing Plan #1 Gets Some AdjustmentWhen Velislav Georgiev and I began making public sculpture at the end of the 90s, we got our first break by joining forces with another artist, Annee Miron. Together, we could offer project management (me) and good art (Annee and...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was in Melbourne today. Had lunch with a friend who works in a major publishing house. We didn’t really talk about publishing, but the Borders demise was mentioned.On the way home, I went to Borders in Highpoint. I bought $502.40 worth of books for $50.24. It...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Design by CommitteeThe last two weeks have been filled with some amazing and fortuitous experiences. I drove to Castlemaine the week before last and stumbled across a really good book designer, Josh Durham of Design by Committee, who has agreed to design some...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
‘What’s it about?’ Last post, I wrote about drafting a back cover blurb for my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone. The funny thing about back cover blurbs is that they tend to talk up a couple of opening incidents in the book, but...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I have been talking about writing the back cover blurb for my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone, for a number of weeks now – talking and not writing. There are some writing tasks that writers tend to avoid: writing synopses, writing publishing...
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