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Got a Book in Your Head? Get it Published! (From the Canton Repository)

“I ought to write a book.” If you are a wannabe author, there perhaps is no better time than the present to put your thoughts into words and those words onto paper.

Print-on-demand publishers such as AuthorHouse (formerly 1stBooks) are making it increasingly easy for authors who are not named Stephen King or John Grisham to get their fictional and works and memoirs into print.

“Our tagline is ‘Get your voice in print,” said Keith Ogorek, director of marketing for AuthorHouse, which claims on its Web site to have “helped more authors publish more titles than any other company.”

Indeed several local authors have taken their manuscripts to AuthorHouse, which provides editing and proofreading services, help with marketing and sales, and distribution and royalty payment assistance — while allowing authors to have creative control over the finished product.

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Three groups receive publishing grant through Authors Across America

AuthorHouse announced it will help three deserving organizations this year. The Denver School Museum, SKIP, Inc., and the Rainbow Repertory Theatre will each realize their dream of publishing a book through a standard paperback publishing package grant through AuthorHouse’s Authors Across America initiative.

Authors Across America, designed to inspire literacy and encourage authors to get published, is in its inaugural year of granting publishing services to educational and service-based organizations.

“Through this grant, we are giving a diverse group of writers who wouldn’t normally have access to book-publishing resources the opportunity to have their voices heard,” said Terry Dwyer, AuthorHouse’s vice president of sales. “We’re pleased to help these organizations achieve their goals through book publishing.”

The Denver Schoolhouse Museum of Grant City, Mo., was built in 1878 and is the only two-story schoolhouse remaining in Missouri. Carol L. Parman spent the last four years collecting 250 pages of poems, written locally over the last 150 years. The grant will allow the museum to publish a book of these poems that will be sold to fund the museum’s renovation.

The Ohio-based Rainbow Repertory Theater, an energetic, diverse group of artists and volunteers who participate in traveling theater, will use the grant to assist in publishing a history of African Americans in their hometown of Canton, Ohio.

SKIP, Inc., based in Montgomery, Ala., provides supportive services to children and families of incarcerated parents, and increases public awareness of the challenges these children face. The grant will assist founder and executive director Gloria Jean Canty in publishing her dissertation to help others start similar organizations.

AuthorHouse announced today it is offering Book Buyers Preview to help self-published authors gain more visibility in the media and market.

Book Buyers Preview can help increase visibility of self-published authors and their books. The “sneak-peak” characteristic of the service allows book buyers, librarians and researchers across the globe to read a selection from the first chapter of the book. Essentially, when book buyers access their ordering database, the preview appears with the book’s ordering information to enhance the purchasing experience.

The preview is available in trade databases including the Ingram Book Group and Baker and Taylor, the largest book distributor in the world. The Book Buyers Preview will also post the preview on the Barnes and Noble Web site www.bn.com as well as www.buy.com.

Once libraries choose to catalog a particular book, the preview will be available to library patrons who are searching for reviews. The book preview will also be on EBSCO, the leading service provider of archived print materials and related services for libraries and research organizations.

“Development of this service demonstrates our on-going commitment to help authors publish, promote and sell their books and reach their publishing goals,” said Terry Dwyer, vice president of sales for AuthorHouse. “The Book Buyers Preview is a service that will enhance visibility and help our authors gain consumer recognition.”