http://inkandpapergroup.com Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:21:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/11/stet-says-9/ By Jen Weaver-Neist So, you’re down to the wire with getting your Wordstock booth and/or networking materials in order, but you’ve been so darn busy, right? There’s always something that requires our attention in this business, and many of us are quite familiar with wearing a variety of publishing hats. Yes, ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/11/last-minute-wordstock-printing-local-vendors-save-the-day/ We look forward to seeing you this weekend at PDX's annual book festival! Wordstock hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both Saturday (11/8) and Sunday (11/9) at the Portland Convention Center, and you can find us at booth #353. The entrance fee is only $5, and there will ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/11/top-5-reasons-to-visit-the-ink-paper-booth-at-wordstock-2008/ By guest writer/editor Rosie McKinlay We’ve all been waiting for November 4. This year’s campaign has been a stressful one, regardless of who your choice presidential hopeful is. And as the tension rises, there seems to be an unspoken sense of exhausting tedium. Now that the end result is mostly out ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/11/approaching-election-day-easing-the-tension-with-a-book/ By guest writer Mary Artz Noah Brockman, a business advisor at the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) hosted by Portland Community College, stopped by Inside Ink this week to lend his virtual shoulder to cry on, to spread his wealth of wisdom, and to toss a proverbial life preserver to you ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/10/486/ By guest writer Tom McCluskey Welcome back to the world of e-book design! Last time, we talked about the necessity of mutable design for e-books, specifically about the need for things like reflowable text and proportional rather than static margins. Today, we'll be looking at how to achieve that mutability of ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/10/e-book-design-a-promising-yet-untamed-frontier-part-2/ Are You My Customer? Culling Your Customers from the Wanderers By Cameron Marschall Book publishers straddle the line between the artistic creatives and the business minded. Unless you come from a marketing or sales background, the idea of manning a booth for hours or days in a roomful of strangers may not ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/10/trade-show-marketing-for-creatives/ By guest writer/editor Rosie McKinlay Western Fiction is a genre you don’t hear much about these days. Its popularity may have peaked in the 1960s, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead, not by a long shot. I knew little of these Old West tales (by definition, Western Fiction covers the years between ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/10/the-new-old-west-writers-and-publishers-of-western-fiction/ Writers participated here and there and everywhere in Portland the weekend of October 18 and 19, searching for clues and gripping their well-worn pens to meet the Sledgehammer Writing Contest's 36-hour deadline. Ink & Paper Group was a proud sponsor of the event, participating as both a writing prompt stop ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/10/first-annual-sledgehammer-writing-contest-isahema-hit/ "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." ~ George Carlin http://inkandpapergroup.com/2008/10/stet-says-8/