Introducing Lucky Bat Books’ New Managing Editor

Welcome, Joelle Fraser. All of us at Lucky Bat Books are pleased and thrilled — and just plain old happy — to add Joelle Fraser to our managing editors team. Joelle, a published author and an experienced college writing instructor, has already served as an editor for Lucky Bat Books. Now she joins...

Seven Ways Publishing is like Baseball, by Jeff Posey

Fortunately, readers are as perceptive as baseball fans. What’s up with baseball owners, professional players, and sports agents? Can’t they see their commercial value eroding because so many amateurs are flooding the game? Pave over that sandlot! Worse, vendors are making money off of children’s...

Publishing Strategy for Foreign Rights

by Judith Harlan. We wrestled with the where’s and how’s of publishing to just the foreign market for one of Janis Ian’s popular books, Society’s Child: my autobiography, which we put out last month. Here’s what we’ve done, so far, and more importantly, what we’re still considering doing. First...

Interview with Gregory Benford

Want to Know What Lies Ahead for Publishing? Ask a Best-Selling SF Author Lucky Bat Books asked author Gregory Benford, best-selling author of science fiction novels and stories, to delve into what makes the new world of publishing tick for him. LBB asked; Gregory answered. Here’s what he...

6 Keys to Finding Your Personal Best Editor

Guest Blogger and author Pat Holland Conner shares some of the pitfalls and successes she encountered as she pursued getting her book into print. Pat Holland Conner is the author of Doorways to Significance: Finding Peace, Power & Passion, recently published by Lucky Bat Books. This is her blog. By Pat...

The Creation of a Book

Guest Blogger and author Russ Crossley shares his story of the journey from idea to publication of Attack of the Lushites, recently proudly published by Lucky Bat Books. This is his blog. By Russ Crossley My new release is Attack of the Lushites and I thought I’d talk a little about the creation of the...

Publishing at Lucky Bat Books

What a week. What a Week! it’s been at Lucky Bat Books! And, I admit, truly, it’s been more than a week since I (Judith) last blogged. But we’ve been hopping busy. Too busy to blog. Guess you’ve heard that one before – and said it, too, I imagine? We’re Proud to be Part of...

Free Book a Day by Douglas Smith

Why just publish when you can have fun too? That’s what we said, and so that’s what we’re doing as we publish over 20 books by Douglas Smith. Giving away a free book every day. We’ll be publishing Douglas’ short stories and novelettes over the next few days, and as we publish a...

Authors Helping Authors

Before we even began Lucky Bat Books, we were being approached by writers – published and unpublished – wanting to know more about eBooks, how to get books published, and how to market and sell their book.s (How do we get the word out to readers?!?, writers would ask.) Publishing and putting...