Spring 2008 has brought many changes to Publishing Syndicate, to our website and to the focus of our writing business. With the recent sale of Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises to new East Coast owners, we have decided to focus our energies on other books and move away from writing and editing for Chicken Soup at this time. We will continue to post Chicken Soup for the Soul story callouts and updates, and that of the successful A Cup of Comfort series, in our popular and free monthly Wow Principles e-Newsletter, space permitting.
Regarding the refocusing of our creative
energies on other projects, we have four new book series in the works,
some of which will require stories from you:
1)
On the heels of our 2007 national award-winning
Best of California's
Missions, Mansions and Museums guide (pictured to the left), our publisher (Wilderness Press) has
once again contracted with us to create a second book
entitled Best of the
Pacific Northwest's Mansions, Museums and More. Yes, we will spend
much of this summer and fall in Oregon and Washington visiting nearly
every destination, and making the oil companies very rich! (We drove
over 10,000 miles conducting research for the first book.) This title is
slated for release in Fall 2009. If you have a favorite Oregon or Washington mansion,
museum or “more,” please zip us an e-mail and share your news!
2) For wine lovers, we are starting a fun and light-hearted wineries
travel guide series. Each book in the series will focus on the popular
wine regions of California, Oregon and Washington. Scheduled to debut in
2009 through publisher Wilderness Press, we have a great title for this series, but since we can't
copyright a title, we have to keep it secret until the sales catalog is
released by the publisher. More on this later, and we might even need your help!
3) For our Chicken Soup and Cup of Comfort writers whom we have worked
with over the years, we are also beginning an exciting new book series.
Even though we can't share the name of the series with you at this time,
we can give you a sneak peek at the structure: It will be an anthology
series (with stories from you!) combined with interviews from experts,
inspiration on par with that found in books such as The Secret, and
how-to tips and advice, similar to the Dummies series. These books will
allow our readers to "see, identify, and do" and become an active
participant. Once we have the publishing contract in place, we
can release the title of this series. But in the meantime, we'll start
accepting great stories
from people like you beginning August 1, 2008!
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4) Last, we are developing a
business book series. The first title will feature leading women
entrepreneurs from around the world. Just as above, we are holding off
announcing the name of the series until the publishing contract is in
place.
In
August, we will debut our new travel site
Places to
Discover.com. For travelers, you can discover the inside
stories about the fascinating histories and cultures of domestic and
international travel destinations before you visit. For publishers and
editors of magazines, newspapers and other media, this site will serve
as a resource to purchase travel stories and high-resolution
photographs. And for travel and real estate/relocation agents, the
material is available for purchase and/or advertising opportunities.
Initially, we will be adding our own
updated travel stories and photos (as travel writers for the last twenty years,
we have hundreds), and hopefully by 2009 we will begin accepting travel
stories from freelance writers. If you are on our e-mail list for our
free Wow Principles
e-newsletter, we'll notify you as soon as we
begin accepting those freelance stories.
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And we are finally expanding our series of Wow Principles "How-To" guides. Hundreds of people have purchased our $7.95 Wow Principles #1: Seven Steps to "Wow" Publishers into Purchasing Your Nonfiction Stories; we will be revising this edition to take into account the changes at Chicken Soup. We will also include more info on the Cup of Comfort series and Publishing Syndicate’s newest series (see #3 above).
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