Back in the Saddle Again

As I actually had an inquiry yesterday, asking if we were "still in business," (!), I figured I'd better tell everyone that yes, we're back from our Holiday break, even if I have been dilatory about changing out the Christmas-New Year's phone message.  We're swamped, surprisingly--so our queue is running a little longer than usual (2 full weeks on fiction titles, longer on complex titles), and we are literally inundated with requests for quotes. 

So, yes:  we're back in the usual swing of things!

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By Hitch on 01/17/12 - 2:20am in

Happy Holidays, 2011!

The Crew at Booknook.biz wants to wish you the most joyful of Holiday Seasons in 2011.  Our book-making elves have been busy preparing books to be ready for the virtual shelves (and some print shelves!) in time for the big Christmas Rush. 

I'm taking the holidays off to enjoy family and friends, from Christmas Eve through January 3rd.  While I'm gone, Project Coordinator Leonard Lopp has the helm, running with reduced staff on reduced hours (and NO phone!), so everyone can have some well-earned time off.  If your book is in production, or entering production for January delivery,…

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By Hitch on 12/24/11 - 12:48pm in

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT BOOK INTAKE:  DEC 1, 2011

Please take note:

• We are not accepting any new submissions for deadlines/delivery within the month of December, 2011.  Yes, we ARE accepting new intake titles, we simply are not slating delivery dates prior to Dec. 24th at this time; we are out to January 4th.  If you have a title you wish to submit during this month, that's fine, but we are not committing to complete any new titles, in addition to  the 152 we already have in production, in time for the Christmas holiday.  We are currently slating completion dates in January for everything…
   

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  By Hitch on 12/02/11 - 2:15am in • Ebook News

How to Use SocialOomph.com: The Basic (and Free!) Features

Go to socialoomph.com to sign up for an account, which requires a username of your choice, password, email address, and a preferred time zone from which future updates will launch. You may sign up for a free account or a month-long free trial of a professional account.

To synch your existing twitter account with your newly created socialoomph account, sign in and navigate via the blue menu on the left-hand side of the homepage. Conveniently, you will always be able to see this blue menu, and presumably, avoid getting lost. Scroll down to "Social…

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By Steve Nilles on 10/17/11 - 1:35pm in

Social Network Mass Management: SocialOomph or HootSuite?

In a day and age in which it is deemed important to both personal and professional networking/marketing to be consistently plugged into social networks, those of you who have other things to do (and I would hope that's most) may want to sign up for SocialOomph or HootSuite, both social network mass-management tools.

HootSuite is an entirely free and very user-friendly dashboard that allows you to navigate twitter; you can track conversations via specific keywords, find new people/businesses to follow based on interests and brands, organize your followers into groups, automatically feed new blog entries to…

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By Steve Nilles on 10/02/11 - 1:31pm in