{"id":3032,"date":"2022-05-18T06:44:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2022-05-19T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T00:45:07","slug":"mays-independent-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2022\/05\/18\/3032\/mays-independent-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s Independent Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to the May issue of\u00a0<em>Books+Publishing<\/em>\u2019s monthly <em>Independent Publishing\u00a0<\/em>newsletter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As well as the latest news from the world of publishing, below I\u2019m drawing attention to a new report out of the UK which examines the practice of \u2018hybrid publishing\u2019\u2014deals in which an author pays to be published while also handing over the rights to their work. The survey findings and arguments made by the report\u2019s authors\u2014the Society of Authors and the Writers\u2019 Guild of Great Britain\u2014make a convincing case against these sorts of predatory deals. I\u2019m interested in hearing from anyone in Australia who has experience with hybrid publishers\u2014please get in touch if this is you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also this month, <em>Independent Publishing<\/em> chatted to writer C S Cooper, who shares his experience selling books by independent authors at Sydney\u2019s Easter Show. He has some valuable tips about the nitty gritty of running physical events, as well as some interesting advice on the value of speech and drama lessons for emerging writers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As always, please <a href=\"brad@booksandpublishing.com.au\">reach out to me<\/a> with any feedback or questions about the newsletter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy reading (and writing)!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brad Jefferies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Editor,\u00a0<em>Independent Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the May issue of\u00a0Books+Publishing\u2019s monthly Independent Publishing\u00a0newsletter. As well as the latest news from the world of publishing, below I\u2019m drawing attention to a new report out of the UK which examines the practice of \u2018hybrid publishing\u2019\u2014deals in which an author pays to be published while also handing over the rights to their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}