Monday, April 23, 2007
The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 18 - Diane Morriss
Diane Morriss is the publisher at Sono Nis Press, in Winlaw, a small press that has been publishing books for 39 years. Well-regarded for their mainstay transportation books - railway, aviation and nautical - Sono Nis continues to evolve and now has a small line of children's books, garnering awards. A fact of publishing: "Most people don't know, but bookstores have up to a year to return books to a publisher, so we never know what the bottom line is for a book because a sale isn't really a sale."
Topics: the chain bookstore (Chapters/Indigo) from the publisher's point of view, independent bookstores, Otter Books, the publishing year, book printing and distribution; the cost of mailing books; the effect on Sono Nis when General Distributing folded & what they did to recover.
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The Writers' Show - Writers’ Show - 17 - Leona Gom
A long-time light on the Canadian literary scene, Leona Gom has written six books of poetry, her poems widely anthologized. She turned to fiction and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her first novel Housebroken, and later went on to write the Vicky Bauer mysteries. She reads from her latest novel Hating Gladys.
Topics: the difficulty of rewriting when it comes to novels, the advantages of publishing with a small press, why she stopped writing poetry, on writing mysteries, dealing with submissions while an editor at Event, the literary magazine.
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