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Coming 2014: The Devil, The Flame, & the Shadow

admin — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:58:40 +0000

The Devil, the Flame, and the Shadow

There’s the devil to pay when young Isaac Gravesend gets caught up in the plot of the infamous pirate captain Sam Ell. Shanghaied and forced to sign articles with little hope of rescue, he and his mysterious friend Fiona become first-hand witnesses as captain Ell [...]

Coming Fall 2014: Billy Tabbs (& The Glorious Darrow)

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:51:31 +0000

A youthful vagrant, Billy Tabbs has been living in the streets for as long as he can remember, scratching out a pitiable existence in a city that doesn’t much care if he lives or dies.

Amid rumors that his kind are disappearing from the alleyways and the overpasses, Billy is recruited into a bizarre homeless [...]

School: Coming Spring 2014

admin — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:53:32 +0000

School is a story about friendship, love, and power–and how the influence of all three can change who we are.
Lucas and Jake are lifetime best friends who live in rural Wilson, North Carolina. When the county school board is pressured to realign school districts, their mothers decide to send Lucas and Jake to [...]

Winter updates 2013

admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:15:11 +0000

There’s a lot new happening here at BDP this winter. First of all, we’re working hard on our three Spring releases: The Trajectory of Dreams, Hymns of Home, and Only the Moon Howls (Jay is working so hard that her own co-authored book, Truly Tricky Physics Problems, will be a little late).

We have a [...]

Essays by Bill Bunn Available Now!

admin — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:17:10 +0000

Bill Bunn’s Hymns of Home is a collection of essays previously published in Salon, The Globe and Mail, and elsewhere. These charming short pieces will touch your heart, make you laugh, and often make you think. In “Take a Walk,” the author discusses our natural mode of transportation, and how the world evolved around its [...]

Don’t Be a Pill

admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:42:09 +0000

You’ll see lots of posts on publisher sites about “difficult authors.” Don’t be one! Why? Because editing and publishing a book is as much about getting along with the author as it is about working with the book.We have been blessed so far with several really wonderful authors, but have also had to reject authors [...]

Formatting for EBSCO

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:55:55 +0000

EBSCO requires specific formatting in pdf submissions. As of this writing (11/2012), they accept only pdfs, no epubs (though this may change soon). The specific requirements are: page numbers on all pages; minimal margins (half inch all around); and pdf bookmarks. This is how I make an EBSCO-friendly file based upon my workflow from InDesign, [...]

So You Want to Start a Press

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:08:25 +0000

We’ve learned a lot at BDP here in our 8 months of operation, so I thought I’d share some of our insights with those of you who might be dreaming of starting their own small press. One thing is for sure–there are more good books than publishers, so if you can’t find an established publisher [...]

Coming Spring 2014

admin — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:30:52 +0000

Our first signed title for Spring 2014 is a biography of physicist Hedwig Kohn, entitled Hedwig Kohn: A Passion for Physics, by Brenda P. Winnewisser.Hedwig Kohn (1887-1964) was one of the pioneer women in physics, not only in Germany. She was the third, and last,
woman to attain the Habilitation (qualication for a professorship, [...]

Footnotes and References in Ebooks

admin — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:08:42 +0000

With a few caveats, making footnotes and similar cross-references in ebooks is pretty simple. The idea is to use html anchors, which can be inserted directly into your html (if you’re doing it that way…) or by using Sigil (if you have exported an epub file from InDesign, for example). Both your text editor used [...]