Stark Reflections On Writing And Publishing

In this solo episode Mark talks through the logic and reasoning behind a recent book launch by sharing a little of his own experience and publication history. This episode is sponsored by the patrons who support this podcast at https://patreon.com/starkreflections and https://buymeacoffee.com/markleslie.    Mark shares the behind-the-scenes story of: Why he first self-published the book One Hand Screaming in 2004  The logistics and strategy behind making it fully returnable and why he was trying to push the envelope of publishing so early in the digital publishing revolution A little bit of his experience as a writer in those manual "mail out submissions" days The reasoning behind wanting to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this first published book by launching One Hand Screaming: 20 Haunting Years Why he invested into getting this self-published book into a traditional distribution warehouse in Canada with a sales team -- and what that means Collaborating with a local brewery to create a tie-in beer One