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Part of a Team: Madville Publishing releases three fictions by Mississippi writers in 2024
I have collaborated with five publishers on six published works of fiction. But I have never experienced the good fortune and comradery that is unfolding right now in Mississippi. Madville Publishing in Lake Dallas, Texas, has published Mississippians before. The beauty and subtlety of cover and interior design Madville created in February 2023 for Mississippi…
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Not my manuscript, but our book: a little Zen on the happy miracle of collaborative creation
Having delivered my manuscript to a publisher and having experienced in 2010 the transformation from “my manuscript” to “our book,” and having now delivered a second manuscript to the hands of a very different publisher, I am even more amazed and saddened now when I hear about an author losing perspective on the power of…