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One thing I like to do during my holidays is taking time to visit book stores. Having time to ramble around is one great pleasure.
Of course I look at all the book but I keep taking pleasure to see our titles. Every year I see more of them. Last week I have taken a few pictures.
As a non-fiction book publisher I have seen many submissions. Here are 4 things that can make a difference, and help your book project get interest from a book publisher.
It’s hard to keep the rythm, especially during the holiday break. I have been taken my family from Dieppe to La Rochelle.
Yesterday in Dieppe I have had a special though for the Canadian sacrifice in 1942 when and allied operation failed.
When can I find time to write?
My 30 days blogging in English challenge is now completed. Since 18th July, I have published 30 posts on this blog…
Even if I have been in a hurry some evenings, I am quite proud and I think I am going to celebrate tonight 🙂
Writing in English is still quite a challenge for me and I hope my typos, misspellings and weird sentences have not hurt too much your eyes. I dare to do that because I believe it is the best way to make progress.
A few years ago I attended a course about speed reading. It was during my years at CJD, Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants, an organisation in which I did a lot of training.
I am a reader. And when we measured our speed I was one of the fasted. No big surprise, book publishers read a lot and they have to be able to read fast. No big deal. I remember being fascinated by my father when I was a kid, his ability to read a letter just by ‘taking a photo’ with his eyes and returning the document to me and saying: you’ve made a mistake…
I grow up in a time when computer were still rare and connected computers didn’t exist for the general public.
In the 80’s, a first generation of affordable computers arrived on the market behind the rockstar Apple II. There was Sinclair’s ZX series, Commodore, Amstrad, Thomson TO7, etc. I didn’t have any of these, but I was lucky enough to get a Texas Instruments TI99/4A.
It was not the best machine around but plugged on the TV and a tape recorder, it was perfect to learn basic programming. I remember building games like a complete Yahtzee. But that was pretty it for my programming career.
As a publisher, I often read books that are not in my lists, I love to collect them and if a book is good it brings me joy, whoever is the publisher.
Yesterday I have started to read The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F**k and it gave me the idea to visit the authors’ blog.
It took me a while to understand that, but after having published dozens of books about diet and nutrition, and having read much more, I have reached the conclusion that our knowledge is still very limited.
The story of cholesterol is a perfect illustration. In the 50’s with Ancel Keys’ Seven Countries Study, America started to think that fat was a bad thing and a low-fat high carb diet began to be officially recommended.
Gradually, the idea became mainstream and people started to remove fats from their diet, replaced saturated fat by unsaturated fat which means eating margarine instead of butter.
Hi, my name is Stéphane Leduc and I’m a procrastinator.
I am not the only one, we all are, were and will always be procrastinators. I’ve learned to say that from Strategic Coach founder, Dan Sullivan.
Yesterday I was in a long conversation with GoDaddy support team, talking about FTP, PHP, etc.
Of course, this is not an easy task and I am quite proud of the accomplishment. But is it where I create value?
Having a team is not always easy and sometimes people that you appreciate decide to leave, to go for a new life, under some other sky… This is perfectly normal.
As announced on Eddison Books web site, we are opening a position as Rights Executive to replace Melissa who decided to change. If you are a junior interested in a career in international publishing, this can be an opportunity.