How Craft Book Authors Can Make the Most of Amazon and Goodreads Author Pages
Online retailing giant Amazon and book recommendation site Goodreads, both offer authors resources to promote their books directly to readers.
C&T Publishing Reduces Number of Books Published Annually and Shutters Digital Pattern Marketplace
C&T Publishing, a publisher of quilting and craft books, has reduced the number of books it publishes in a year and is shuttering its digital pattern marketplace, PatternSpot.com.
Podcast Episode #109: Shea Henderson
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast we’re talking about building a sewing community with my guest, Shea Henderson. A former middle school math teacher, Shea Henderson now owns Empty Bobbin Sewing Studio, a sewing and quilt pattern company. She is the author of the award winning book School of Sewing: Learn it. Teach […]
Podcast Episode #92: Pokey Bolton
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast we’re talking about the sewing and quilting industry with my guest, Pokey Bolton. Pokey Bolton was introduced to art quilting and the related needle arts in 1998, and ever since she took her first stitch (a fly) and embroidered her first motif (a spider), she has […]
Podcast Episode #81: Roost Books
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast, we’re talking about publishing craft books with my guests, Sara Bercholz and Jennifer Urban-Brown of Roost Books, an imprint of Shambhala. Sara is the Executive Vice President of Shambhala and the publisher of Roost Books. She started Roost Books with Jenn in 2012. Shambhala was started […]
American Quilter’s Society to Close Books Division
The board of the American Quilter’s Society made a decision last week to close the company’s book publishing division. In a letter to authors from AQS co-founder and president Meredith Schroeder stated, “It is with a great deal of regret that I am notifying you that the American Quilter’s Society will no longer be publishing new books…I am sorry to see it come to this, but I know you are aware of all the changes in technology in the publishing industry.”
Podcast Episode #69: Janine Vangool of UPPERCASE
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast, we’re talking about magazine publishing with my guest, Janine Vangool. Janine is the publisher, editor, and designer of UPPERCASE, a quarterly print magazine for the creative and curious. UPPERCASE publishes content inspired by design, typography, illustration, and craft. Her magazine and books celebrate the process of […]
Podcast Episode #66: Jennifer Keltner, Publisher and Chief Visionary Officer, Martingale
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast we’re talking about craft publishing with my guest, Jennifer Keltner. Jennifer is the publisher and chief visionary officer at Martingale, a leading craft publisher. Many well-known sewing pattern designers have books out with Martingale including Sara Lawson, Pat Sloan, Angela Walters, Christa Watson, Amy Smart, Vanessa […]
Podcast Episode #51: Christine Haynes
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast my guest is sewing pattern designer Christine Haynes. Christine is a Los Angeles-based sewing author, teacher, and pattern designer with her own line of self-published vintage-inspired sewing patterns. She has written four books, How to Speak Fluent Sewing, Skirts & Dresses for First Time Sewers, The […]
Podcast Episode #40: Creativebug with Kelly Wilkinson and Liana Allday
Watching someone make something is an ideal way to learn a new craft. I think video is an incredibly exciting new frontier in craft publishing and I’m especially excited by the beautifully produced video classes found on Creativebug. For me these classes are every bit as special an experience as opening a well-designed craft book, […]