News and events from Ashland Creek Press
It’s a very exciting day here at Ashland Creek Press HQ — we just received our Advance Review Copies of OUT OF BREATH, which will be released on Halloween. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but it’s such a creepily beautiful book — the cover is even more eerie in person. A paranormal YA novel …
Gandhi was a genius at communication. And many of his strategies are still widely emulated by activists today — from plain old leafleting to dramatic nonviolent protests and marches. I sometimes wonder how Gandhi would have co-opted contemporary tools of communication to spread his message. I imagine he would have had a field day with …
The Magellanic penguin colony that I wrote about in The Tourist Trail was very nearly decimated twenty years ago by a Japanese firm that planned to “harvest” the penguins for their skins. The penguin skins were to be used for women’s gloves. Fortunately, this never came to pass, thanks to the efforts of a handful …
If you’re an author and your book is not on the Kindle, this is a good year to get it there. Kindle guru Steve Windwalker cites a market analyst who predicts that 16 million Kindles will be sold this year. If you also count the Kindles that have been sold prior to this year, you’re …
It’s not easy keeping up with technology, as this Best Buy commercial humorously illustrates: [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAAZ7iXN-o’] Consider the eReader. If you’re in the market for one, you have to navigate a wide range of devices — from the Kindle to the Nook to the iPad. As publishers, we want our books to be available …