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Building a Book: First Chapter

By: S. Morris July 22, 2021July 26, 2021

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Construction of your book continues. Now that we have created some blueprints, gotten a few small tools ready to go, it’s time to start thinking bigger.

Building a Book: The First Line

By: S. Morris June 18, 2021June 17, 2021

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Unlike Edward Bulwer-Lytton, you can write the perfect first line. Or, frankly, don’t worry about it.

Building a Book: Series Kickoff

By: S. Morris March 18, 2021March 17, 2021

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There is so much to the story of writing a book. In this series, we are going to take you through the whole process from brainstorm to final manuscript.

Imprints

By: R. Mange March 11, 2021March 10, 2021

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Publishers can use their various imprints as a way to establish different, yet cohesive brand identities.

House Tour, Final Stop: Publicity

By: B. Greene February 18, 2021February 17, 2021

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Book publicity is the effort a book publicist makes to get the book(s) they’re promoting into the consciousness of consumers. Simply put, it is the job of the book publicist to help drive sales by building recognition.

Tired Tropes

By: B. Greene February 11, 2021February 10, 2021

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while tropes are important to writing genre fiction, please keep in mind that mishandled tropes can easily become cliches. And then there are tropes that are so beyond cliche they need to be retired. Below, we’ve highlighted some of the romance tropes we could do without.

House Tour: Manufacturing and Distribution

By: S. Morris January 28, 2021January 27, 2021

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The tour continues with manufacturing and distribution! Don’t count this part out — it is critical to your book succeeding.

House Tour: Metadata

By: B. Greene September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

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Metadata may not be the most exciting or glamorous job in publishing, but it is an essential one. And it continues to grow in importance each day as our society grows more and more digital. Now with the pandemic looming large and most of us homebound, it’s never been more necessary to push books digitally, whether borrowing or purchasing an ebook or purchasing a print book online, and those who have the best Metadata teams are sure to feel the benefit.

One Year of Three Houses Press

By: S. Morris September 3, 2020February 24, 2022

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We did it! Thank you for joining us on the very first year of our existence. We can’t wait to keep up the pace.

House Tour: Sales

As much as we love to think about literature as an art form, at the end of the day, publishing is still a business where the ultimate goal is to sell books. As a publisher you could acquire the greatest novel ever written, but without the Marketing and Sales teams, that book isn’t going to fly off the shelves. Sales plays an integral role in getting books from the hands of the author to the hands of the reader as early as the acquisition stage.