Here goes!
Plan as poetry
highlights 2009-10
Zing Press ZAP haiku
(by Jillian Downey)
Bacon book rollout
Warm ZCoB support and help
Camp Bacon success
Reaching out to stores
work to build relationship
new kids on the block
Ari travels far
Spreading bacon booksignings
Introvert workout
Dear book reviewer
We thought you might like to see
Keeping fingers crossed
More bacon options
Local handbound editions
Pig Leather, linen
Web site ordering
all systems running smoothly
warehouse data flows
Content add content!
Microsite and bacon blog
Someone IS out there
ZCoB book projects
Lots more great stories to tell
Ideas become books
More new products soon
Pull from five foods, Newsletters.
Content everywhere
Reissue old gems
Food books in public domain
Jan Longone’s aid
Huddle, DOR
Does this go below the line?
Peachtree uncovered
Great service focus
always learning and inspired
by ZCoBbers skill
Conserve resources
tap in to local know-how
examine choices
Read, write, plan, listen
working, learning, building trust
Path 2 partnership
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Bonus Poem
How to make a book
By hook or by crook
A poem in 20 rhymed couplets
by Jillian Downey
Someone has an idea or passion to share
Research, writing, solitary labor and care
Author and publisher a contact to make
Fame and success for both at stake
Planning the marketing – who’s the book for?
And how will they find it – from us? From a store?
Editor edits the manuscript with pen
Red and blue ink and email to sen -d
Author and editor work back and forth to and fro
This paragraph goes here, the other one, below
Illustrations can make a book more fun
Ian up all night drawing and painting til it is done
If by chance there are recipes to taste
When done at Z house no food will go to waste!
Decisions, decisions – what price, size, and shape?
Crucial elements all – once chosen, no escape!
An important moment – all the words and art are in hand
Neatly tied with a bow, or a rubber band
Next comes the text design, create sample pages
Pass them around, get feedback, improvements made in stages
On to the layout, of frontmatter, text, and recipes
The correct number of pages achieved with ease
This next stage is called pageproofs
You print it all out, and look for any goofs
The author and editor want to see it too,
As well as some magazines – we’re hoping for a review
And now the indexer can begin their task
To help the reader when they have a question to ask
The jacket or cover must be designed and laid out
An eye-catchy design and much talked about
Time to talk to printers, get schedules and prices
Recycled paper, soy inks, a local printer entices
Last stage of layout – add index and final changes
After this step, no returns or exchanges
High excitement – at last its off to the printer
6 weeks, to 8 weeks, be it summer or winter
Book preorders lined up, warehouse standing by,
Ready for those books, for people to buy
Lovely books in hand, celebrations swirled,
Now the work begins, to share them with the world.
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