Shirin Yim Bridges has successfully transitioned from author (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, HarperCollins/Greenwillow, Chronicle Books) to self-publisher, to award-winning publisher (Goosebottom Books). She is the author of Ruby’s Wish, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book and winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award; The Umbrella Queen, which made TIMEmagazine’s Top 10 list for 2008; and Mary Wrightly So Politely, which launched in April 2013 to starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, andShelf Awareness.
Shirin is also the head goose of Goosebottom Books, and the proud publisher of The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames, named one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Series for Youth 2012 by the American Library Association; The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses, a silver medalist at the 2011 Independent Publishers’ Book Awards; and Horrible Hauntings, an International Reading Association Children’s Choices winner.
She has taught and discussed writing and publishing at the Asian Festival for Children’s Content, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, the Book Passage Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference, Stanford University, Dominican University, San Francisco State University, Illinois State University, and the College of San Mateo. She has lived in many countries around the world, and now nests in California.
Shirin is also the head goose of Goosebottom Books, and the proud publisher of The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames, named one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Series for Youth 2012 by the American Library Association; The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses, a silver medalist at the 2011 Independent Publishers’ Book Awards; and Horrible Hauntings, an International Reading Association Children’s Choices winner.
She has taught and discussed writing and publishing at the Asian Festival for Children’s Content, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, the Book Passage Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference, Stanford University, Dominican University, San Francisco State University, Illinois State University, and the College of San Mateo. She has lived in many countries around the world, and now nests in California.
One small step for Apple, one giant step for self-publishing-kind
Last week, Apple unveiled its new iPhone 6 without saying one word about its function as an e-reader. But this week, Apple began updating all its device users to iOS8. For the first time, iBooks will be automatically uploaded to 800,000,000 Apple devices.
In my latest blog I take a look at what this could mean for self-publishers.
In other self-publishing news:
The deadline for entering the Third Annual Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book, sponsored by Bowker and Blurb, is October 1.
Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Awards program is now open to indie books published in 2014.
And Publishers Weekly has just announced a new blog for independent authors.
Happy writing and publishing!
Shirin
p.s. If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join my latest publishing course at Stanford on September 27th if you’d like a few more tips.
p.p.s. And, I’ll be with two other geese at Book Passage in Corte Madera on October 4th and then back again on October 6th to speak to the Left Coast Writers. Come say hello.
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In my latest blog I take a look at what this could mean for self-publishers.
In other self-publishing news:
The deadline for entering the Third Annual Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book, sponsored by Bowker and Blurb, is October 1.
Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Awards program is now open to indie books published in 2014.
And Publishers Weekly has just announced a new blog for independent authors.
Happy writing and publishing!
Shirin
p.s. If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join my latest publishing course at Stanford on September 27th if you’d like a few more tips.
p.p.s. And, I’ll be with two other geese at Book Passage in Corte Madera on October 4th and then back again on October 6th to speak to the Left Coast Writers. Come say hello.
Copyright © 2014 Goosebottom Books LLC, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you're a writer and/or ex-student of mine who has been receiving occasional emails from me with writing tips and opportunities. From now on, my missives will be a little more regular and a little more organized, and you (and your friends) can opt in and out more easily.
Our mailing address is:
Goosebottom Books LLC
543 Trinidad Ln
Foster City, CA 94404
Add us to your address book
