Dalton Publishing participates in Peer Pressure
March 24, 2010
Dalton Publishing is thrilled to be participating in the upcoming event: Peer Pressure: Indie Presses Unite.This event is being held in honor of Small Press Month, a nationwide celebration highlighting the high quality works produced by independent publishers.
The evening will be emceed by award-winning Dalton author, Owen Egerton, and will also feature Dalton author, Michael Gilmore, reading from his collection of visceral and visual poetry, Restless Astronomy. You can read excerpts of Michael Gilmore’s Restless Astronomy and Owen Egerton’s books on Scribd.
In addition to Dalton’s authors, actress Kelli Bland will read a hilarious piece from American Short Fiction’s newest issue. Monofonus Press will lend their teleporting expertise to the evening and broadcast a reading from renowned author Dan Chaon. And locals Cindy St. John and Bradley Strahan will represent their independent presses with awe-inspiring poetry.
Seth Woods, the Whiskey Priest, will begin the evening with a set of his gorgeous indie-Americana songs. Together, the night will be full of wit, humor, diverse writing, and amazing local music. You won’t want to miss it!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
7 - 10pm
Club de Ville
900 Red River
Austin TX
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Deltina Hay to appear at Writers’ League of Texas panel
September 14, 2009
Dalton Publishing owner Deltina Hay will appear in the September edition of the Writers’ League of Texas’ ongoing “Building a Book” series. The series focuses on the evolution of books from conception through publication. Hay and her co-panelists, Colleen Divine Ellis and Gillian Redfearn, will represent and the publishing teams in place once a book comes to market.
The event will take place Thursday, September 17th at 7:30, and will be held at the Writers’ League of Texas Office, 611 S. Congress Ave., Suite 130. More information is available by emailing wlt@writersleague.org or visiting the Writer’s League website.
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Book Touring at Your Fingertips
August 5, 2009
Writers of all genres have found a seriously effective way to get their names and books out, and it doesn’t involve a trip to the bookstore. Online book touring is the easiest way for authors to travel - and it’s more popular than ever. The virtual book tour has been a popular promotional tool for a few years now (just check out this 2006 New York Times article), but if you’re unfamiliar with the process, now is the time to get informed!
Virtual tour stops typically include a series of relevant book blogs where writers submit guest posts, podcasts, video interviews, and hold reader Q&A sessions regarding their recently published work. Some authors even create video “trailers” for their new books to post online as teasers for interested readers.
Authors can contact blog writers personally requesting they host a guest blog post or interview. The tours have become popular enough that bloggers will oftentimes invite authors they love to guest write on their blogs. By making stops at book blogs and other relevant blogs, authors are finding easy access to a new and rapidly growing audience that may not have attended the bookstore signing.
Another way to promote your book through an online book tour is to use an online book tour agency, like Pump Up Your Book, where, for a fee, an agency will guarantee the book’s appearance on a given number of blogs and online radio shows within one to two months. They even provide book tour home pages and press releases for the authors, and include their own book blogging how-to.
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Bookvisions Blogger “Highly Recommends” Social Media Survival Guide
July 24, 2009
Self-proclaimed “social media dummy,” Linda of Bookvisions calls Deltina Hay’s A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization “interesting and informative” in a recent review. She praises the accompanying resource CD for its detailed forms and charts, and additional reading and resources lists. Linda notes that the book is “written textbook style - only better - because it never gets boring!”
A blogger and new social media user, Linda “highly recommend[s] this book to anyone who is interested in the internet.”
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Reader Views Reviewer Places Stricken on Must-Have List
July 22, 2009
Carol Hoyer, PhD, a professor of psychology and reviewer at Reader Views, describes Spike Gillespie and Katherine Tanney’s collection Stricken: The 5,000 Stages of Grief as “an excellent book that can and should be kept on our bookshelves and read frequently.” Hoyer exults in the authenticity of the experiences of loss related in the work, and finds them both “inspiring and encouraging.” For Hoyer, the words of each contributor come across sincerely and compassionately, and have a profound impact on the reader as an individual.
All in all, Hoyer says, “this is a book I have put on my students’ ‘must have list.’”
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2009 Texas Book Fest Panel on Cinema to Include Gary Kent
July 17, 2009
We at Dalton Publishing are thrilled to announce that Gary Kent and his book Shadows & Light: Journeys with Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood, released July 2009, have been selected for inclusion in the 2009 Texas Book Festival! The festival takes place at the State Capitol Building in Austin from Saturday, October 31 through Sunday, November 1.
The final lineup of writers featured along with Gary will be released Thursday, September 3, so check the Texas Book Fest Website for more details.
An annual event since 1996, the Texas Book Festival is one of the premier literary events in the country. Come and enjoy a weekend of readings, discussions, book signings, and live music at the Capitol in Austin with over 200 authors from Texas and beyond.
For more information about Gary and his book, click here.
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Dalton Poets Featured at Austin Poetry Society Fourth Thursday
July 14, 2009
On Thursday, July 23, at 7:00 p.m. in the NeWorlDeli (4101 Guadalupe) The Austin Poetry Society Fourth Thursday open microphone features poets of Dalton Publishing. Hear W. Joe Hoppe, Ric Williams, and maybe more, read original work. An open mic always follows the featured poets, so come out to the event and bring your own poems to read aloud. Eat, drink, and be poetic.
The Austin Poetry Society brings poets and poetry lovers together to meet, mingle, and support each other. APS also offers monthly programs and contests. Their monthly membership meetings resume in September.
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Writing on the Air with Michael Gilmore
July 13, 2009
Dalton Publishing poet and author of Restless Astronomy, Michael Gilmore, will give an interview on KOOP 91.7 FM “Writing on the Air” with host Dillon McKinsey. Tune in on Wednesday, July 15 from 6 to 7 p.m. to hear Michael’s first on-air interview.
Writing on the Air promotes the art of writing and creativity, and provides information to Austin’s community of readers, writers, and creatives. The show has featured interviews and readings with award-winning, as well as up-and-coming, novelists, journalists, biographers, poets, essayists, folklorists, songwriters, freelancers, historians, screenwriters, playwrights, humorists, philosophers, and other creative spirits.
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Vote Dalton Publishing! Best of Austin!
July 13, 2009
Hey Dalton friends and fans!
The time has come to vote for Dalton Publishing as Best Independent Publisher in the Austin Chronicle’s 2009 Best of Austin poll.
To vote, go to http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/bestof/09/
Submit Dalton Publishing under the “Wild Card” section as Best Independent Publisher.
One ballot per person, please. And hurry, because voting ends July 21st!
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Gary Kent Q&A with the Statesman
July 13, 2009
In anticipation of the official release of Shadows & Light: Journeys With Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood, written by stuntman Gary Kent, at BookPeople this Wednesday, July 15, The Austin American-Statesman sat down with the author for a Q&A session to discuss his forthcoming book, the evolution of film, and Charles Manson.
Read the entire interview here…
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