Issue 1 August 2020 In this issue 1 SIXTY BOOKS since our Humble Beginnings in 2013. 2 PARTNERING with Print On Demand 2 WRITE-ON PUBLISHING Welcomes Alison Bosman. 4 NEW SERVICES AND FACILITIES 4 THE TAKEALOT OPTION 5 EBOOKS VS PRINT BOOKS 6 A SELF-PUBLISHING SALES STRATEGY 7 YOU ARE INVITED to List Your Books on our Indie eBookshop 8 COMING SOON! The IndieBookshelf 8 AFFORDABLE COLOUR PRINTING Sixty+ Books since our humble beginnings in 2013 S elf-publishing facilitator Write-On Publishing of St Francis Bay, has recently recorded yet another important milestone - 60 books produced under the dual imprints, Write-On Publishing and SA Catholic Online Books, since very humble beginings in 2013. The first book produced by SA Catholic Online in 2013 was what we would today call a “chapbook”. It was a small, 60-page collection of short stories called “Via Dolorosa”, written by then St Francis Bay poet and author, June Ann Jansen. The stories were fictional accounts by “eye-witnesses” of the events around the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. “Via Dolorosa” was followed in 2013/14 by a seven-book series by Johannesburg Catholic lay theologian Michael Mahony called the “One of Us” collection. This series of books represented an incredible editing and typographical challenge and learning curve to fledgling editor and Adobe Indesign typographer, Frank Nunan - interlinear Greek and English text, Hebrew text, complicated tables and graphics, endnotes, and much more! These books were all produced within a two-year period. August 2020 - Write-On News The initial focus was on Catholic books, and there followed a string of books by priests, a deacon and lay Catholics, crowned by the production of a book for Archbishop Buti Tlhagale OMI “Pastoral Letters on Mary and Matters Ancestral”. An article in the Catholic weekly newspaper called us “The Priest’s Publisher”! Secular books - Write-On Early in 2017, a decision was made to broaden operations into the secular sector, and Write-On Publishing was born. The first book under this imprint was also by a local St Francis Bay author, Mike Silberbauer, for whom we published “Secrets of a Walking Stick”, a collection of whimsical reflections on “life in the Village.” This was immediately followed by his second book “A Cottage in St Francis Bay”. Mike was so happy with the results that he had no hesitation in referring Write-On to renowned author of Eastern Cape travel and history books, Bartle Logie. Bart’s previous publisher had retired and he was agreeably surprised to find a replacement right on his doorstep in St Francis Bay. The association with Bart is on-going and has resulted in the publication of two books, “Toasted MarshmalContinued on Page 3 1
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