Backmatter - Publishing During Covid, with Shannon Wright
2020 and 2021 have been a very strange time in publishing -- a time when the way that publishing a book works has changed rapidly and in unexpected ways. At the start of 2020, the expectation was the ...
8 Feb 20221h 7min
Episode 38 - After Publication, with Julia Pohl-Miranda
So your book has been published! It is now in out in the world for everyone to read. And now . . . what happens? Do people mostly come to find your book organically? How do you make sure people are s...
20 Apr 20211h
Episode 37 - Approaching Publication, with Jacq Cohen
Your publisher has called you to tell you that your book has a publication date! It's coming out! In the future! What . . . do you do in the meantime? You want everyone you know -- and also everyone ...
2 Mar 202156min
Episode 36 - Working with a Publisher, with Nilah Magruder
Publishers! If you've got one, they're involved in all the parts of making a book -- from negotiating a book deal to contracts, editing, design, marketing, publicity, sales, and all the bits where you...
24 Jan 20201h 6min
Episode 35 - Media Outlets, with Petra Mayer
Headlines! Radio segments! Feature pieces! Your comic might be in one of those spaces one day. But . . . how? Today we're talking to Petra Mayer, the editor at NPR Books, about consumer-facing media ...
25 Nov 201951min
Episode 34 - Conventions, with Christopher Butcher
Conferences, conventions, and festivals! As a comics creator, should you go to them? What should you do there? What's the best way for you to work with all the very different public event spaces there...
7 Nov 20191h 13min
Episode 33 - Social Media, with Ngozi Ukazu
Social media! Authors are there, talking about themselves and their books, all the time. What goes into thinking about how to do that in a successful way and manageable way? That's what we explore in...
22 Okt 201952min
Backmatter - Short Form to Long, with Sarah Winifred Searle
We interrupt our regular arc of Graphic Novel TK posting to bring you a new feature: Graphic Novel TK Backmatter. Where Graphic Novel TK follows a book through its publication life from book deal to p...
27 Aug 201959min
