A word from our sponsor: Video trailer featuring music performed by Pete Seeger for New Street's reissue of David Arkin's BLACK AND WHITE

One of Several Exciting New Street Projects Ready to Launch

David Arkin's classic children's book Black and White, with a new Introduction by Pete Seeger. Winner of the 1966 Western Books Award. Coming Spring 2011, with all net profits going to help support Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute. Produced in collaboration with the heirs of David Arkin - Bonnie Arkin Cordova, Alan Arkin and Robert Arkin - Black and White will be published in both paper and eBook editions.

Reviews are in for "A CHRISTMAS CAROL Retold in the Manner of Ernest Hemingway"

"Better than the original!" - Charles Dickens

"The best parody of A CHRISTMAS CAROL Hemingway never wrote." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I strenuously object to having been revised. I deny all these allegations. I've never dallied with whores in Havana, although London is quite another story." - Jacob Marley

"I never realized I was so macho!" - Ebenezer Scrooge

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Retold in the Manner of Ernest Hemingway
Published November 2010 by New Street Communications, LLC

New Street's "A CHRISTMAS CAROL Retold in the Manner of Ernest Hemingway" Launched for Kindle and Nook

"Papa" and Charles Dickens announce the debut of their new collaboration, just in time for the Holidaze.

Amazon's Kindle Page for HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: OUR PARIS?

I'm liking the look of the page, and the progress on sales, especially since our publicity push does not commence until October 29th.

H.R. Stoneback - HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: OUR PARIS?

The Kindle edition for Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris? is now officially available! The paperback should be good to go within a week or so.

Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris? constitutes a masterpiece of both appreciation and analysis by a scholar whose knowledge and love of Paris is as deep, profound and genuine as his knowledge and love of Hemingway.

Kindle price: $3.95
Paper price: $9.95


Advance Praise:

"H.R. Stoneback knows his Hemingway and his Paris. I had the incomparable experience of visiting Paris twice while working for Ernest Hemingway in 1959. I viewed the city at the side of the writer while he added the finishing touches to A Moveable Feast. Professor Stoneback's evocation of Hemingway's Paris of the 1920s is as close as I have come since to reliving those Paris days in the company of Ernest Hemingway. Reading this book will be a treat for all who love Hemingway and Paris, and a pleasant surprise for all readers."

- Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

"H.R. Stoneback's intense reading of Hemingway's Paris–revealing Hemingway's nuanced rendering of the deus loci and his intentionally subtle infusion of numinosity–is nothing short of nonpareil. Stoneback's work undoes decades of weak and negative criticism of Hemingway. Read this classic piece–a benchmark in the creative essay–and you will see exactly how and why Hemingway's Paris became Stoneback's Paris and by extension your Paris. Stoneback's Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris? shows, ever so illustratively and ever so doucement, how and why we read Hemingway."

– Allen Josephs, past president of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, and author of Ritual and Sacrifice in the Corrida

"No one has written better or more wisely about Ernest Hemingway’s Paris than H.R. Stoneback."

– Donald Junkins, author of Late at Night in the Rowboat, Journey to the Corrida, Playing for Keeps, Crossing By Ferry and other books

Cover Design: A CHRISTMAS CAROL retold in the manner of Ernest Hemingway

We've just finalized the cover for what will be New Street's second book - A Christmas Carol retold in the manner of Ernest Hemingway - coming November 1st. Let me know what you think.

Goodnight Moon (with Zombies)

Happy (early) Halloween from New Street Communications, LLC. Please feel free to forward.

PW: Evolving Standard Deal for eBook Originals - No Advance, 50/50 Split of Net Proceeds

This is exactly how my firm, New Street Communications, is structuring things. Publishers Weekly: "Most e-book original publishers interviewed by PW do not offer advances, explaining that the rules in the e-books world are different from traditional print publishing. Waxman said that while he won't rule out offering an advance to the right author, currently Diversion is not giving advances. Angela James, executive editor of Harlequin's e-book original imprint, Carina Books, said something similar: 'Carina Press does not offer advances, because the digital-first business model works differently.' The new business model is different largely because it works more like a partnership: the author supplies the text, the publisher pays for production, and they split the return down the middle (after the publisher recoups production costs). That's exactly how Diversion works. 'We put up money for the production costs and we recoup those costs as first revenues. That seems to be the model that makes sense in the nascent business at this time,' said Waxman. Open Road, the most visible publisher of e-book originals, also works on a 50/50 profit share, offering no advances. James said that in exchange for sacrificing the advance, Carina authors get 'increased marketing support, higher digital royalties on cover price, and more frequent royalty payments.'"

eBook Royalties - New Street Communications, LLC

After studying the matter quite carefully, I've decided New Street will follow the royalty model that seems to have become the standard for Jane Friedman's Open Road Media. We'll pay authors 50% of net profits, generally with no advance. We'll report every six months. And we'll hold no reserve against returns for amounts payable because (in less than five words) eBooks don't get returned.

Editorial Advisory Board for New Street Communications, LLC

I'm delighted to announce the editorial advisory board for New Street Communications: John Perry Barlow, Arthur Goldwag, John Hanson Mitchell, Tao Seeger and Michael Stein. Bios here.

Former Lulu Exec Launches Outer Banks Publishing

From Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid:

Anthony Policastro, a former business analyst at self-publishing vendor Lulu.com, has launched the Outer Banks Publishing Group, a new publishing venture that will focus on digital publishing and the use of social media to build an audience for POD print releases.

Outer Banks Publishing offers a different model than Lulu.com. Policastro said OBP is not a self-publishing vendor like Lulu, but a hybrid publishing model that combines selective editorial content with new media publishing and promoting platforms. Policastro said he solicits manuscripts like a traditional publisher and is selective about what he publishes. However, OBP does not offer advances. Instead, Policastro says he offers writers the chance to publish their books in e-book format and his experience and expertise in using a wide variety of social media and viral marketing strategies and technologies to promote and market the book online.

His plan is to publish books initially in e-book format; create buzz on the Internet through social media and then move to POD print publication when the initial e-book edition has “proven itself” by generating digital book sales. Outer Banks, Policastro said, will show its authors how to create a significant web presence with blog tours, web sites, blogs and web optimization.”

A former magazine editor and blogger as well as a novelist—he has self-pubbed two novels of his own through Outer Banks—Politcastro said he is about to publish an updated edition of Martin Brossman’s Social Media and Online Resource Directory for Business, and is currently considering several manuscripts for publication.

According to Politcastro, “The publishing industry is moving too slow to adapt these new technologies,” and that Outer Banks is “bridging the gap between authors and publishers and getting more authors in print.”

Outer Banks and my New Street Communications are both aimed at bridging the same gap, although at New Street we'll make digital and POD editions available simultaneously. We'll also focus less on over-the-transom manuscripts and more on titles developed and commissioned in-house. Plus New Street is exclusively nonfiction.