Back in the Swing of Things

Readers of my blog will know that this week has been rife with frustration surrounding our website migration. All big elements have been fixed (like .php files opening up in code in Netscape, for example, and pay-per-click links going to dead-ends, even though we were paying for them).

Now we're tightening the screws on small things like Author Webpage details. Outskirts Press offers a free webpage to every one of our published authors, and depending upon the package selected, they have up to 16 different styles and formats to choose from. Our Diamond authors even have webpages that include "Contact the Author" buttons as well as an "Other books by" section which grows as more of their books are published by Outskirts Press. Those two functions entails very specific coding on that section of the webpage since it obviously needed to determine the author's email address and or other books by that authors from within our database. But this morning we got that functionality back online.

Next week will be an exciting week as we distribute our Writer's Digest Partnership press release. Outskirts Press is proud to be the 2005 sponsor of their 74th Annual Writing Contest Compilation. The collection of winning entries will be published exclusively by Outskirts Press, which enables Writer's Digest to feature a full color cover, perfect bound publication rather than the 2-color, stapled booklet they've published in the past. It is my hope that other business recognize the value Outskirts Press can bring to their organization by leveraging our custom publishing techniques.
Not only is that my hope, it's my plan as we grow in 2005. In fact, Writer’s Digest likes the idea of opening an additional revenue stream and will be retroactively publishing their 2004 book through us as well. I'll include a cover shot here when it gets closer to publication.