{"id":3274,"date":"2023-03-20T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2023-03-23T02:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T02:09:28","slug":"marchs-independent-publishing-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2023\/03\/20\/3274\/marchs-independent-publishing-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"March&#8217;s Independent Publishing newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the March issue of\u00a0<em>Books+Publishing<\/em>\u2019s monthly\u00a0<em>Independent Publishing\u00a0<\/em>newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>This month I had the pleasure of speaking with author and artist Terry Whidborne, who self-published his illustrated title <em>Tasmanian Faeries<\/em> in October last year. <em>Tasmanian Faeries <\/em>is a gorgeous book and has been selling particularly well in bookshops in Tasmania, so I wanted to pick Terry\u2019s brain on how he went about publishing his book, and his advice for other authors and illustrators. Hopefully you find it inspiring as a demonstration of the type of high-concept book that is able to be produced independently.<\/p>\n<p>Also this month is an extract from an important new book from the Australian Society of Authors, the <em>ASA\u2019s Guide to Getting Published<\/em>. The book is pitched as a guide to all authors and illustrators trying to make sense of the publishing industry, and they have shared a section with us to give a sense of the type of advice it covers.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading (and writing)!<\/p>\n<p>Brad Jefferies<\/p>\n<p>Editor,\u00a0<em>Independent Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the March issue of\u00a0Books+Publishing\u2019s monthly\u00a0Independent Publishing\u00a0newsletter. This month I had the pleasure of speaking with author and artist Terry Whidborne, who self-published his illustrated title Tasmanian Faeries in October last year. Tasmanian Faeries is a gorgeous book and has been selling particularly well in bookshops in Tasmania, so I wanted to pick Terry\u2019s<\/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-3274","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\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}