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Irene Watson and Tyler R. Tichelaar spoke with publishing expert and lawyer Stephen E. Gillen about book titles, trademarks, and your rights as an author. Steve is an attorney with 30 years of experience in publishing, media, and copyright matters. He has been in private practice for 15 years, currently as a partner with 140-year-old intellectual property boutique firm, Wood, Herron & Evans in Cincinnati. We covered a broad spectrum of rights issues including:
- Is the title of your book protected by the copyrights in the book.
- What does the copyright in a book cover?
- Is there no protection for your book title?
- How and when can a title be protected?
- What are the advantages of trademark protection and registration?
- Is there a downside to the intersection of trademark law and book titles ?
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 Stephen E. Gillen |
| Steve represents book and magazine publishers, media companies, corporations, authors and creatives across the country. Prior to establishing his private practice, Steve spent 17 years in the educational publishing business with South-Western Publishing Company, now a division of Cengage Learning. While with South-Western, Steve worked as a copy editor, editor, executive editor, and for the last 8 of his years there as corporate secretary and vice president of legal affairs. You can contact Stephen through Wood, Herron & Evans. |
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Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with local historian, professional editor, and entrepreneur Tyler R. Tichelaar about the ins and outs of producing books on local history, from research to marketing and distribution. Tyler R. Tichelaar,a 7th generation Marquette resident, has written five novels with more to come, all set in Upper Michigan including The Marquette Trilogy, the award winning Narrow Lives, and the recently published history of Marquette, My Marquette: Explore the Queen City of the North, Its History, People, and Places. We covered a wide range of issues, including:
- What made you decide to write a local history book?
- What makes your book stand out from other local history books?
- How did you arrange the book and decide what to leave out and what to include?
- What was the most difficult part of the research and writing process?
- Beyond the writing, what other decisions had to be made, such as in acquiring photographs or the layout of the book?
- What have you done to market the book?
- What kind of response have you received so far
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 Tyler R. Tichelaar |
| Tyler has a Ph.D. in Literature from Western Michigan University, and Bachelor and Master’s Degrees from Northern Michigan University. He has lectured on writing and literature at Clemson University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of London.
Tyler is the regular guest host of Authors Access Internet Radio and the President of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association. He is the owner of Marquette Fiction and Superior Book Promotions, a professional book review, editing, and proofreading service. Besides writing about Upper Michigan, he is interested in the Arthurian legend and recently published King Arthur’s Children, a study of treatments of King Arthur’s children in literature from medieval times to twenty-first century novels. Tyler lives in Marquette, Michigan where the roar of Lake Superior, mountains of snow, and sandstone architecture inspire his writing. |
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| Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with fantasy genres author Victoria Strauss about her research and reports on businesses that defraud writers. Victoria is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Victoria is Vice-Chair of the Committee on Writing Scams, and co-founder, with Ann Crispin, of Writer Beware, a publishing industry watchdog group that provides information and warnings about the many scams and schemes that threaten writers. She maintains the popular Writer Beware website). She received the Service to SFWA Award in 2009 for her work with Writer Beware. Among the topics we ranged:
Alerts for Writers (misinformation, urban legends, bogus rumors)
Contests and Awards
Copyright
Electronic Publishing
Independent Editors and Manuscript Assessment Services
Literary Agents
Print-on-Demand Self-Publishing Services
Small Presses
Vanity and Subsidy Publishers
Vanity Anthologies
Writers’ Services
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 Victoria Strauss |
| Victoria Strauss is the author of seven fantasy novels for adults and young adults, including the Stone books (The Arm of the Stone and The Garden of the Stone) and the Way of Arata books (The Burning Land and The Awakened City). She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and ezines, including SF Site, and her articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, she served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards |
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| Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with author, entrepreneur, and marketing guru Alan E. Smith on how to line up and successfully execute media interviews on AM, FM, Satellite, and BlogTalk Radio stations. Alan is the author of How To UnBreak Your Health. Since the first edition of his book was published in late 2007 he’s been interviewed on more than 70 radio programs. He’s been on AM, FM, Internet and even satellite radio shows talking about his book about complementary and alternative medicine. Topics covered:
Why should authors use radio to promote their book?
Is one type of radio (AM, FM, Internet) better than another for generating book sales and visibility?
How do you find a radio show that might want to have you on?
How do you get on a radio show?
What’s the best way to prepare for a radio interview?
What do you do during an interview?
Is there anything you suggest doing after an interview?
How do you capitalize on an interview after it’s over?
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We’ve even had Alan Guest Host a couple of Authors Access shows and I highly highly recommend you listen to our roundtable episode called “Podcasting For Authors” which has all the resources you need to start your very own podcast. Since his college education was in broadcast journalism he chose to make radio his primary marketing tool for his book, also because it was free.
Resources mentioned in this episode
Francine Silverman
Alex Carroll
Talkers magazine
Radio-TV Interview Report (RTIR)
Help-A-Reporter Out (HARO)
Reporter Connection
PitchRate
Book Marketing Network
UnBreak Your Health(TM) offers proven healing techniques from the most modern innovations to ancient healing therapies. With 339 new and updated listings in 150 different categories this is the most complete book ever published on complementary and alternative therapies (no diets or supplements). This updated edition again focuses on therapies, systems and devices in the field of complementary, alternative and integrative medicine. Many topics also have accompanying podcast interviews with leaders and innovators in the field
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