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Today–the last day of National Poetry Month–is the final day you'll be able to get my poetry collection Bite Your Lip & other poems free at Amazon for Kindle–whether that Kindle is your Paperwhite or your iPad or your Android phone or whatever you're using these days to read. Bite Your Lip & other poems contains 16 different pieces, some of which I wrote way the hell back in my undergrad days but more that I wrote far more recently, and even includes poems about both Doctor Who and Barack Obama. You can get it here.
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A Different Indie Success Story, or: Exciting Press By (and Beyond) the NumbersPosted by Will Entrekin in UncategorizedI started this post as another press release in the same style and tone as the ones announcing when Exciting Press has signed authors, but I realized as I wrote it that it required a different approach. I need to tell a story, here, because while "self-publishing success stories" have become a common enough meme in publishing, I see fewer and fewer people pause to consider what success means, and I think I need to. Comments Off
Star Wars, The Dark Knight, and the Myth of the HeroPosted by Will Entrekin in Movies, pop cultureA few weeks ago, my soon-to-be wife and I went out to a local mall to catch the final installment in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. I'd mostly looked forward to the flick, but only "mostly"–I didn't enjoy the same rush of breathless anticipation I saw many others experience. I largely avoided most discussion of the movie, as I didn't want either the storyline or the experience to be ruined, but I went in with hopes higher than I perhaps should have, for a very simple reason: I hoped watching the final installment and seeing the full story would cast new light and understanding on the second installment, The Dark Knight, which I'd found problematic for several reasons. Sequels are notoriously difficult movies to make–it's the rare sequel that turns out to be better than its predecessor. And where sequels are difficult, second installments in trilogies are nearly impossible. The few shining examples–The Empire Strikes Back, for example–only highlight how difficult it is to make a proper second installment. Tags: batman, Movies, storytelling, the hero's journeyComments Off
The True Cost of Independent Publishing (and How to Do It Free)Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, publishing, technologyWhen publishing is a button, pretty much the only thing you really need to buy for access to that button is a computer, and chances are you don't even really need a great one at that. I published my first book, a self-titled debut collection no longer available, in 2007 during my first full year studying writing at USC. Back then, I had a Hewlett-Packard laptop, and I wrote the entire collection and laid it out in Microsoft Word. I used Photoshop for the cover. I'd already had experience publishing by then; for the three years before, I'd been assistant editor of two nursing journals. I'd used programs like Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign. Working knowledge of those two programs was not just helpful but integral to making that book back then. That's no longer true, because publishing has changed so much. Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone would want a PDF for digital publishing, which means several of those programs are no longer useful (a PDF is arguably necessary for CreateSpace, which I think is the best POD service available). So you want to publish. What do you need? So there went three months. Funny thing: I never stop writing. Haven't stopped now. Been busy. Since April, Exciting Press has published like a dozen titles. Some mine, most not. And that's on top of the fact that I moved in late July, but spent all of June and July doing so (June was packing, July was preparing the new house to be lived in). My fiancee and I purchased a house we have to reno a bit, so that's meant new floors and new paints and new fixtures. It's been a lot of fun work I'm proud of. Few things are as empowering as installing a new ceiling light fixture. And when I get busy, blogging's always the first thing to go. Probably because I hate the word ("blog"? Blech), but also because it feels like it requires way more effort to be way more ephemeral. Even the sites that attract millions of readers every month require new posts every day (if not every hour), which means older stuff falls by the wayside and disappears from immediacy. And given the choice, I'd rather focus on what doesn't. The Prodigal Hour won't fall by the wayside. It may languish in obscurity and one day be forgotten, but it's a novel, whole on its own and always ready to be discovered. Every time I start to think I want to post something, I lose interest or over-analyze it. I posted a lot about publishing and Amazon and Kindle and marketing, but those things are really only of interest to other authors, not readers. Those things are probably utterly boring to readers. And I loathe the idea of boring people, and that's why I stop. Which I suppose is why I've begun to concentrate more on actually getting work out there. I've always liked the aphorism that one could be known by one's work, and honestly, if I could be known for writing and Exciting Press, that's all I'd want. I could talk more about craft and fiction and writing, but then, do I want to be known as a great writer, or a great teacher of writing? Of course: why not aim at both? Maybe I will. Or maybe I'll ignore it. Again. Because there's always renovation, and another story to code. Right now we're fixing up the house while planning our wedding. And then there will come the holidays and the honeymoon. We'll see. I updated the look and the feel here, wondering if that'll help encourage direction forward. And by that I mean help me figure out what I want to do with this site, if anything at all. Comments Off
Is Kindle the Best New Market for Short Stories?Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, publishingOver the past week, I've quietly updated two Exciting Press titles, my short stories "Blues'n How to Play'em" and "A Song for Bedtime," the latter of which began its life as "Struck by the Light of the Son." Both had been included in the Sparks anthology I published with Simon Smithson in December 2010, and both later became the first standalone stories published by Exciting Press. Both have taught me a lot about the market for short stories, and why Kindle might just be the best way to target that market. Comments Off
"It Doesn't Appear to Be Available for Kindle, Sadly."Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, publishingIt's amazing how much a simple sentence can change. Nine words. Nine simple words. How much and what it has changed . . . well, those things remain to be seen. But they're the words that made me a no-longer-just-"self-published" author, and they're the words that brought one of my favorite novels–as well as several others by its author–into the digital realm. They're the words that ended my review of Nick Earls' Perfect Skin, and, in some part, they're the words that are the reason I can link that title to the page on Amazon where you can purchase Perfect Skin for your Kindle (at the time of this writing, it's still in process at Barnes & Noble, but you'll soon be able to purchase it for Nook, too). Comments Off
How to Make Free Downloads into SalesPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, marketing, publishingWhen the free promotion for The Prodigal Hour translated to decent sales, I was impressed. Enough that I started to consider free promotions more strategically with the desire to use them both better and more deliberately, and I think that doing so is increasing sales. In fact, I'm sure of it. Sales have increased, bit by bit, every month. Not by a whole lot, yet, but considering where they started, they're building steadily and seem on pace to continue to do so. So how? Comments Off
Two Big Factors That Enhance Kindle Select Free PromotionsPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, marketing, publishingThe other day, I talked a bit about my experiences using KDP Select as both an author and a publisher. I noted that I didn't think timing made much difference and noted some things that hadn't caught on in the way others had, but I've noticed some things I think do, and have some theories about some other elements besides.
Things I'm Learning From FreePosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, marketing, publishingThis past weekend, my novel Meets Girl was free at Amazon. I shared a link on Facebook and tweeted about it late last night, and in both posts I'd mentioned I'd previously forgotten to, but that was only mostly true. I did, in fact, forget to mention it on Saturday morning (I was getting ready for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy's 2012 Hat Luncheon, which was a blast). I remembered it later that day, but by then I'd realized it was a good opportunity to conduct an experiment. I see a lot of authors, and especially independent ones, participating in Amazon's KDP Select program and taking advantage of the five free days the 90-day period of Amazon exclusivity grants. The two most important participants in publishing are writers and readers, and I think the program is great for both; readers get access to a ton of free books by authors they might not have heard of before or tried, and authors get new readers. I see enough authors doing so, in fact, that it seems like free books are no longer news. Every day, my Twitter stream is filled with another author linking to a free book. Unfortunately, that's sometimes all they tweet, ever, but that's another issue entirely.
Soliloquies (Free)Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, poetry, publishing, The Prodigal HourThis week's free poetry collection celebrating National Poetry Month is Soliloquies & other poems. As I note within the text following the title poem, I got the phrase "I am but a poor player" lodged squarely in my head. Which, of course, set me in pursuit of the Bard. Comments Off
A Penile Implant Unrelated to SpamPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, publishingI think "The Italian Job"–right now free–was the first Nick Earls short story I'd ever read. And I did so as his publisher. I hadn't been able to read much of Nick's short work. I'm in America, and quite a bit of Nick's work just hadn't made it state-side, or, if it had, had gone out of print by the time I discovered his work via Perfect Skin. I'd managed a few of his adult novels–Zigzag Street and Bachelor Kisses, for two–but several others, including The Thompson Gunner, had remained elusive even through special, dedicated channels like Amazon's marketplace and ABE books. "The Italian Job" and The Thompson Gunner share a character, Meg Riddoch. I hadn't been able to read Meg's story until I started coding The Thompson Gunner for publication through Exciting Press–at which point the novel took on a new name, Tumble Turns. The story and the novel might share a universe, too–on that point I'm not entirely certain, given the ways Meg's timeline in Tumble Turns digresses and flits back and forth. You can read about how Nick conceived both novel and story right here. Mal's penile implant isn't really as central to the story as his relationship with Meg, and the connection they build as he drives her around Australia, possibly at the tail end of her Tumble Turns media tour. Or maybe a different tour altogether. But I think it's one of the first stories I ever read that used the verb "detumesce," and for that alone it's worth reading. So do check it out. And wonderfully, Nick and Nick's agent and I have arranged it that "The Italian Job" is one of five stories available globally, without restrictions with regard to territory. So no matter where you are, be it Canada, Australia, America, or Italy, if you have access to the Kindle platform, you can read the story. We think that's pretty great.
Free Isn't a Business ModelPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Kindle, marketing, publishing, writingIt's a way to help readers find new books. Today, in keeping with celebrating National Poetry Month, The Inevitable Decay of Francis "Fitz-Pack" Fitzgerald is free, and will remain so for the week, but given that Exciting Press has more than 25 titles–at least 23 of which will be enrolled in free promotions over the next several months, and hopefully indefinitely, as well–it's not really news that there's a free title. Our hope is there will always be one, from here on out. Comments Off
And One More (Exciting) ThingPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, publishingBeginning today, every day, some title from Exciting Press will be free. We're doing it with a schedule. For each title, Amazon allows us 5 days out of 90 to for giving away. With the right amount of titles and some advance planning, we can manage it every day. So we are. But why, you ask? Comments Off
ReGeneration, Headgames, and Problems With a Girl & a Unicorn (Free)Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, publishingAs promised, ReGeneration & other poems is free today to kick off celebrating National Poetry Month. Every weekday in April, Exciting Press will have free, four-poem micro-collection available; next week, we'll see The Inevitable Decay of Francis "Fitz-Pack" Fitzgerald & other poems. But that's not all. It's not even the biggest. Our very own one more thing: Exciting Press is totally thrilled to be able to offer five stories by Nick Earls . . . worldwide! Because he's an international bestseller, Nick's got several sets of people and titles and publishers to juggle. He's worked with all the giant names in publishing. Saint Martin's Press. Penguin. Random House. And he's worked with them across multiple continents in myriad regions. Here's a guy whose novel Perfect Skin became an award-winning Italian motion picture (as Solo un Padre. Distributed in Italy by Warner Brothers). We'll be publishing Perfect Skin in May in several territories, but excluding Australia and New Zealand because the e-book market is very different there, and Nick's got a lot of options. To date, all the work Exciting Press has done with Nick has excluded his home region. Until now. Now we have five short stories, one of which is live in all territories, with the others hopefully following its lead presently. All are just a dollar, and, even better: if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can borrow them all for free through the end of September. Up first we've got "Headgames." And to celebrate this new global reach, we're also offering "Problems With a Girl & a Unicorn" free. It appears it's going to take a few hours for the availability to hit Australia and New Zealand (sorry to all Nick's fans over there. We appreciate your patience and apologize for the delay. Write us if you have any problems and we'll make it up to you). We hope you enjoy these. Comments Off
Are We All Best Sellers Now?Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Dear Writer, Kindle, marketing, publishing, writingBack in February, using a free promotion through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Select Program, my novel The Prodigal Hour attracted more than 8,000 downloads in a mere three and a half days. Enough to steadily climb Amazon's rankings until it was the number one free science fiction novel on the site. And in the top five action & adventure novels. (You can get it, or any other title from Exciting Press, right here.) Now, this was when it was free, but even after the $4.99 price tag returned, it stayed in the lists. Not as high, of course, but it sank rather slowly out of them. Moreover, its current ranking on Amazon is a couple hundred thousand higher than it used to be. More people have bought and borrowed it in the past month and a half than ever. The numbers aren't astronomical, but they're growing. As many readers probably already know, April is National Poetry Month. Wikipedia notes: Neglecting for the moment that conflating poetry, as a genre, to either race or gender seems a little, well, off, celebrating poetry seems like a great idea. Perhaps due to its brevity or the fact that quality within it varies so greatly and is arguably so subjective, poetry is a difficult beast. Lots of people write it with varying degrees of success. Like me, for example.
For Cynthia: FreePosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Behind the Story, Kindle, publishing, writingGod, I love Kindle Select. I know not everyone does. Barnes & Noble and IPG and the SFWA all have all used various methods–refusing distribution and bowing out of contract negotiations and, er, removing links to Amazon titles except where those titles are available only through Amazon, apparently, respectively–to express their distinct displeasure with Amazon and Kindle, but me, I'm a reader and a writer and a publisher and, to paraphrase a former colleague copywriting for one of the most famous advertising campaigns in history, I'm loving Amazon and Kindle Select. But let's focus on "For Cynthia" for the moment. When I was younger I always liked to read authors' commentaries on their short stories, accounts of their geneses and executions. So here's a bit about "For Cynthia." On March 1st, 2007, five years ago tomorrow, I published Entrekin, a self-titled debut collection of short stories, essays, and poetry. If you've ever been interested but put off picking up a copy, now's the time to do so, as it's your very final chance. I said that once, back when I pulled it from Lulu, but then Kindle made it more viable. And now, Kindle's made a lot of other things more viable, too, which is why I'm pulling it from there, as well, finally. As of a few hours from now, Entrekin will no longer exist. The stories and words, however, will. In new form. Comments Off As part of this celebration, Pitt created a website celebrating the breadth and diversity of its history, from its founding in 1787–the same year as the US Constitution–through to the present. Pitt's history is fascinating. I'd tell you more about it, but that's why the site's there. For people to learn about Pitt, and discover its rich history. Plus, I helped write the stories there. So I could tell you about it, or I could just point you to the stories I already helped write, and, really, the latter is far more interesting. Contributing to the project has been a terrific experience, and I'm really proud to have been a part of it. I'm also thrilled to be able to talk a little more about it, now that it's announced and launched and live. What's also been cool about this project, personally, is that I just moved to Pittsburgh. Well. By "just," I now mean a year ago this month. And it was a new city in a decent-sized string of new cities, and yet another in a long series of moves, but it's the move that finally found me settling in to a place that feels like home. It's exactly the sort of burgh I'd always hoped I might find, and doing the research for it has helped me learn it in the best way possible. What's interesting is that I didn't learn my new home by eating out and exploring–though those were part of the process–but rather mostly by gaining a bigger picture view of the university and the city in the context of history and the world. So it's been fascinating. On myriad levels. Hope you enjoy the stories if you check them out. Please do. Comments Off
Cabin Baggage and Meets Girl: Both FreePosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Exciting Press, Kindle, Meets Girl, publishingLast week, after having enrolled several books in the Kindle Select program and taken advantage of a few free promotions for essays and short stories, I decided to see how my novel, The Prodigal Hour, would fare. And fare well it did, hitting high ranks, breaking into the top-1oo Kindle Bestsellers, and so far, at least, it's been maintaining more sales than before. You can find it here, for $4.99. In fact, it went so well Nick Earls and I decided to do something Exciting. I've been thrilled to work so closely with Nick, an internationally bestselling author, and not just on the Kindle store. Nick's books have hit many lists in more countries. He's had books published by Saint Martin's in the US and Random House in Australia and several other houses and publishers besides. Now he's partnered with Exciting Press to bring stories, novellas, and novels to Kindle. Today marks a new publication of a story, "Cabin Baggage," and a new option: For the first three days of its digital existence, "Cabin Baggage," will be free. In addition, it includes a free excerpt of Nick's novel Monica Bloom, which in its turn, and for the next week only, includes a bonus novella, Grass Valley. And that's not even all. I know! A free short story from an international bestseller! For any other publisher, that'd be enough, wouldn't it? Exciting Press isn't any other publisher, is it? Well. We're hoping not to be. Which is why we're also offering Meets Girl free, also for a limited time. Two exciting stories. One lower-than-low price. This Valentine's Day, make romance Exciting. Comments Off
How Free Affects New PublishingPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Kindle, publishing, The Prodigal HourAt the time of this writing, The Prodigal Hour is free on Kindle and has, in a day and a half, been downloaded more than 2000 times, and it currently ranks alongside George R.R. Martin's latest novel atop Kindle's list of top science fiction. And me? I'm stunned. Tags: amazon, e-books, independent publishing, kindle, self-publishing, the prodigal hour
The Free Dilemma: Kindle Select, No-Price Sales, & New ReadersPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Kindle, marketing, publishing, The Prodigal HourHey, right now, my pre-/post-9/11 time-travel novel, The Prodigal Hour is free for Kindle. I have to be honest with you: I have absolutely no idea how to feel about that. Tags: amazon, ebooks, free, independent publishing, kindle, Kindle Select, marketing, self-publishing, the prodigal hour
The Prodigal Hour: Free For a Limited TimePosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Kindle, The Prodigal HourI'm interested to see what will happen with a novel. For anyone new (as I'm hoping such a promotion will attract), The Prodigal Hour might well be the world's only pre-/post-9/11 novel. It's about time travel and alternate histories and trying to change the world one moment at a time. For anyone not new who hasn't yet picked it up, now's the time. Hope you enjoy it. Tags: alternate history, amazon, free, independent publishing, kindle, novel, September 11th, the prodigal hour, time travel, world trade centerComments Off
What I'm Talking About When I Talk About IndiePosted by Will Entrekin in publishing, writingI've noted several times how much I dislike the phrase "self-publishing," even going so far as to note there's no such thing. I've spoken often enough (arguably too often?) against corporations and conglomerations and the oft-neglected complexity that has come to color storytelling and writing. I've noted that people who call the late-twentieth century business model of publishing and distribution "traditional" are badly misusing the word. I realize, however, I've never really talked about what independence means to me, or how I've come to it, or why. I thought I would. Tags: corporate publishing, editors, independent film, independent music, independent publishing, literary agents, publishing, self-publishing, traditional publishing
The Present and Future of the Reading BusinessPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Apple, publishingIt's an interesting article with a strange, near-defeated tone. It goes out of its way not to lament the current state of affairs that is the bookselling business and the late-twentieth century distribution model of the corporate publishing industry, but it holds an undercurrent of resignation from paragraph to paragraph, as if its author isn't quite certain whom she is trying to convince but knows she can convince herself least of all. It portrays Barnes & Noble as a compelling candidate for its own adjective: an honorable enterprise begun by one man selling used books in a great city that grew humbly until the late-1970s, when a young entrepreneur bought it and fueled growth and revenue. It doesn't mention the scores of independent bookstores that collapsed based on Barnes & Noble's discount practices and corporate publishers support of them. It doesn't mention the once-quaint shops who shuttered their windows because selling a book for list price could no longer attract foot traffic from anyone but the most dedicated of shop patrons; most readers were happy to spend the money the saved buying inexpensive hardcovers on coffee or cheap tchotchkes like bookmarks or novelty pens or sparkling journals. It doesn't mention predators and their prey, and the collateral damage experienced by those caught between the two. Tags: amazon, Barnes & Noble, kindle, new york timesComments Off
Further on Kindle Select and the Amazon Lending LibraryPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Kindle, marketing, publishingThe other day, Inside the Outside author Martin Lastrapes asked me about Kindle Select (or Kindle Direct Publishing Select, or KDP Select, depending on the day and who's typing, it seems). I'm now several weeks committed to being a Kindle-exclusive author, and I thought I'd share some of my experiences. Tags: amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, corporate publishing, digital publishing, e-books, ebooks, independent publishing, KDP Select, kindle, Kindle Select, Kobo, nook, self-publishing, Sony
Apple's iBooks Author EULA: Actually Evil, or Just Misunderstood?Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, Apple, books, publishingLast week, in an event specified as education-related, Apple announced new software that enables authors to more easily create and publish media-rich digital content. They're calling the sales app iBooks 2 and the creation app iBooks Author, but they seem to be making a very marked distinction that what has generally become known as an e-book is not what Apple has in mind when it talks about iBooks. A lot of authors—especially independent authors—and other people in the publishing industry have been writing about the agreement that comes with the software, and complaining about how restrictive and evil it is. I've read the agreement in question, and I think that all the discussion around it is based on simple misunderstanding. Tags: amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, e-ink, education, exclusivity, iBooks, iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iBookstore, independent publishing, ipad, iphone, kindle, Kindle Fire, nook, Nook Tablet, publishing, self-publishing, textbooksComments Off
The Best Indie Books of 2011Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, books, fiction, Independence, Kindle, publishing, readingEnd of the year means time for lists. I've seen lots of book lists over the past few weeks, but they've hewed to conservative choices like the new Stephen King time-travel novel or Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding. I'll be honest: I tried both before I got distracted (Kindle's make it easy to get distracted by another book. Just a few pages that don't grab and suddenly button-click I'm back to my home library with all those other books I wanted to read . . .). I've also seen lots of discussion about the top-selling indie (or "self-published") books of 2011. Notable: two of the top ten bestselling books at Amazon this past year were independent novels (and fine books to boot). But I haven't seen any lists of terrific independent novels–and by independent, I mean what people with corporations would call "self-published." And I thought, hey, I've read some great independent novels this year. Why not talk about them? Of course, I probably should be less declarative and more accommodating and title this something more generic like "My Favorite Indie Reads of 2011," but none of the other lists I've seen have done so, so I figure why not? I don't really think in lists, so I'm not going to make one, but here are some independent books I thought highly of. A caveat: through social networking, I've "met" a lot of the authors on this list, as we run in the same circles, but they're not here just because I follow them on Twitter. I follow them on Twitter because they're here. Tags: Blackbirds, Chad Harbach, Christopher Meeks, Chuck Wendig, Darker Things, Donovan Creed, Entertainment Weekly, Grass Valley, hemingway, Inside the outside, Irregular Creatures, J.D. Salinger, Joanna Penn, John Locke, Love at Absolute Zero, Martin Lastrapes, Miya Kressin, Monica Bloom, My Memories of a Future life, Nick Cole, Nick Earls, Pentecost, Prophecy, Rob Cornell, Roz Morris, Shotgun Gravy, stephen king, The Art of Fielding, The Changeling's Champion, The Creative Penn, The Gargoyle, The Love You Crave, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea, The Old Man and the Wasteland, The Road, the time-traveler's wife, USC, What Once WasLately, there's been a price trick among independent authors using Smashwords and Amazon: if one made one's ebook available to Smashwords' distributors (like B&N and Kobo and Apple) free, Amazon might match that free price. It was the only way to offer a book for free at all, at least for independent authors. This is no longer the case, and one of the reasons I went Amazon exclusive. In exchange for making my books exclusive to the Kindle platform, I also gained access to the ability to initiate promotions and could make my books free for five days out of every 90. I did so this past weekend, over Christmas. Hoping to attract a few of all the new readers unwrapping and firing up their shiny new Kindles. I think it worked. Tags: advertising, amazon, Barnes & Noble, free, KDP Select, kindle, SmashwordsComments Off
Why I'm Going Amazon Exclusive (For Now)Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, books, Kindle, marketing, publishing, writingAfter careful consideration, I've removed my collection from Smashwords and enrolled all my books in Amazon's new KDP Select program. I did it for both professional and moral reasons that disagree with most everything else people say about Amazon, so I thought I'd tell you about why, but first I wanted to mention that one benefit of doing so means that, for a very limited time (until December 27th, in fact, so just five days including today), all my short stories, essays, and collections will be available free. Totally free. No catch. No caveat. You don't have to be a Prime member. You can find them all right here. Now. Why am I going Amazon exclusive (if only for 90 days at a shot), when most people in the publishing industry are decrying the evil of the Seattle corporation–even though that's kind of ironic, given that pretty much everyone who's called them an evil corporation is either a corporation or deeply associated with one (or many)? Because I don't see them as evil. I'm a reader, first–I write because some of the books I want to read haven't been written yet–and Amazon has done more for me as a reader than anyone else ever. It's also done more for me as a writer than anyone save my editrix. But let's talk about Amazon. And evil. And corporations. Tags: amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, corporate publishing, independent publishing, ipad, kindle, nook, nook Simple Touch, publishing, self-publishing, traditional publishingI've been sitting on some news for a while, but now that some books are up and things are moving forward, I feel more comfortable making a formal announcement: I've officially founded Exciting Press, a new independent digital publisher, and as director have signed bestselling author Nick Earls to a major digital distribution deal. For a lot of years, I was pursuing what's now called a "traditional book deal." I wanted an advance and book tours. It was always my dream. And I mention that because this feels like my dream come true even though it sort of isn't. I can't tell you how proud I am of this venture, and how deeply honored and humbled I am to be working with Nick, who is both a truly accomplished author and a truly cool guy. His agent, Pippa Masson of Curtis Brown Australia, has also been terrific to work with. So what does it mean to found a press? A new website for one. There will be more to come on the site. For now, being a small start-up, I'm working to focus on Nick's work–which at this point includes more than a dozen books. Our plan is to release them over the spring and summer of 2012, but we've also managed to publish a few in time for the holiday. We're going to work to make it all easily accessible; for now, the best way to find the work is to search for "Nick Earls" in the Kindle store. But a couple of stories might get you started: "Problems With a Girl & a Unicorn" Tags: amazon, digital publishing, independent publishing, kindle, Nick Earls, Perfect SkinComments Off
The Only Reason to Embrace Independence, or: All the Reasons to "Self-Publish"Posted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, books, publishing, writingOver the past few weeks, I've encountered several essays in which authors have enumerated reasons not to "self-publish." I think that their use of the phrase implies some prejudice already–no lesser a source than Hachette (one of the big 6 publishers) notes in a leaked document that "Self-publishing is a misnomer." When one major corporation acknowledges the phrase is misleading, another is tries to pawn off vanity services as "assisted self-publishing," and more writers are discussing all the reasons not to do it, one possible implication is that it has become more viable. That's because it has. Which means the big question is whether or not you should do it. Tags: independent publishing, kindle, publishing, self-publishing, USC, writing
Jamais Plus Free! or: Wait, Am I Going Steady With Amazon?Posted by Will Entrekin in books, Kindle, marketing, publishing, writingJust received an email that Amazon has made a special KDP Select option available on its Kindle Direct Publishing platform, which what many authors–including me–use to publish our work for Kindle. Which is awesome. I know a lot of corporate publishers, literary agents, retailers, and authors are wary of Amazon, its continued growth, and its possible dominance, but for many of us–again, myself included–it's been uniquely empowering. The new Select option is interesting; authors who agree to digital exclusivity with Amazon can both make their books available as part of Kindle's new Lending Library and take advantage of free promotions. I decided to try it out to see what I could see. I went ahead and enrolled "Jamais Plus: Explorations in the Curious Case of the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe", while at the same time increasing its "normal" price to non-promotional level (and taking advantage of that free promotion). "Jamais Plus" is a choose-your-own-adventure noir, a twisting-winding throwback to the adventure novels so many of us grew up on, in which C. Auguste Dupin investigates the death of the man who made him an infamous detective. It required substantial and specialized coding to make it work on Kindle, and it's sort of even more a reading experience than a story. Tags: amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, ereader market share, iBookstore, independent publishing, ipad, KDP Select, kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle Fire, Kindle Select, nook, Nook Tablet, publishing, self-publishingComments Off I am halfway to 34, and this coming December 24th will be my 34th Christmas Eve, which is how I measure Christmases. For me, Christmas has never been so much about lists and presents and trees as it has been about making those lists and anticipating those presents underneath that tree. Which means that, for me, the essence of Christmas is the breathless hope of wishing on the brightest star in the sky and believing it might come true. That singular moment of potential. Christmas Eve occurs before the fire at my parents' house, surrounded by my mother's sister and her family, as well as any friends who happen to wassail their ways to our home. It's full of egg nog and sugar cookies and chances are there's enough nog it gets blurrier as the evening continues in fits of discarded wrapping paper and torn asunder envelopes, but one thing stands out. One thing always stands out. Tags: christmas, christmas eve, iphone, john denver, Johnnie Double Black, The Muppets
How The Prodigal Hour Got Its TitlePosted by Will Entrekin in The Prodigal Hour, writingTitles seem to be one of the elements of writing writers fret over most, and justifiably so. Chances are, titles are the first thing readers see, so they take on a lot of importance. Under ideal circumstances, they somehow carry the whole theme and story all in a quick phrase. My favorites include Needful Things, American Gods, Peace Like a River, and The Silence of the Lambs. All are not just effective but evocative; Stephen King's Needful Things, in fact, begins with a character discussing the name of the new shop in town, which happens to be Needful Things–"What do you suppose something like that means? Why, a store like that might carry anything. Anything at all." And indeed it does. It's where you can buy anything your heart desires–or at least the fantasy of it. For a price. Knowing how important a title can be, I always fret over them. Which was why I was relieved when The Prodigal Hour finally came to me. Tags: american gods, Easton Gym, hollywood, irvin kershner, kindle, needful things, Peace Like a River, stephen king, the prodigal hour, The Silence of the Lambs, titles, USC
John Locke & Donovan Creed: An Indie Case Study (Part 3)Posted by Will Entrekin in books, marketing, publishingSo what might a writer learn from Locke? You've written a "good enough" novel–whatever you've decided that means. Maybe you just finished it for NaNoWriMo (and in which case, congratulations!). Maybe you're an experienced indie author still frustrated when you see other authors selling crazy amounts of books while sales of yours trickle in. Maybe you're an author who got a corporate deal–advance and all!–but your publisher never really got around to marketing you. Maybe you signed with Simon & Schuster, and they're too busy with uploading and then deleting Snooki YouTube videos. Tags: amanda hocking, barry eisler, corporate publishing, Donovan Creed, independent publishing, Joe Konrath, John Locke, malcolm gladwell, marketing, Michael Connelly, occupy wall street, publishing, self-publishing, tipping point, traditional publishing
John Locke & Donovan Creed: An Indie Case Study (Part 2)Posted by Will Entrekin in books, marketing, publishingIn discussing Locke and How I Sold (as well as Hocking and Eisler et al.), I think one huge caveat that must be enumerated, and can't be mentioned often enough, is that: there is no magic bullet. What's worked for one writer might not–and probably will not–work for others. I'm sure someone could make the argument that people don't discuss that bit because it's understood, but I don't buy that. Tags: corporate publishing, Donovan Creed, independent publishing, ipad, John Locke, London, malcolm gladwell, marketing, Michael Connelly, publishing, self-publishing, shakespeare, tipping point, traditional publishingComments Off
John Locke & Donovan Creed: An Indie Case Study (Part 1)Posted by Will Entrekin in books, marketing, publishingIn Malcolm Gladwells' book "The Tipping Point," Gladwell discusses myriad companies whose products tipped the industries they were in, changing them around them in such a way as to not simply be successful but even rewrite a paradigm. During the past several years, several different events have increasingly tipped publishing from being a business based on print and bookstores to transforming into one based on digital readers and online retailers; Amazon's Kindle, which debuted in 2007, was a first step in a march of tipping points that has progressed inexorably since then. Amazon's announcement that independent author John Locke had sold a million Kindle downloads might have been the first real tip of independent publishing from a specific designator used in a specific way toward a more general appellation embraced by myriad creators operating outside of so-called "traditional" systems. Over the weekend, I read Locke's "How I Sold a Million Ebooks in Five Months!" The exclamation point is his (he has a propensity toward the punctuation. I don't think a single page didn't contain at least one). As I read his recounting of his experiences, I started to wonder how authors might use the knowledge, but I also started to wonder if the fact that Locke exists in the first place might be even more important than his techniques and books. Comments Off
A Second Annual Exciting Fire SalePosted by Will Entrekin in books, Kindle, Meets Girl, publishing, reading, The Prodigal Hour, writingI never do anything today. Black Friday keeps me safely home, away from bargain-seeking crowds in the retail jungle. Still, who doesn't like a good deal, right? Which is why, for a limited time only, all my books for Kindle are just 99 cents. This includes the essays and short stories, of course, "Jamais Plus" and "Struck by the Light of the Son," and "Blues'n How to Play'em." But it also includes both: and Both of which have been consistently well received and so far well reviewed. So if you're looking for some Exciting books to give to people you love, filling up their digital readers or sending them a gift for their phone they can read during their morning commute, they make for a perfect gift. And just 99 cents for a very limited time only. Tags: amazon kindle, kindle, Meets Girl, novels, short stories, the prodigal hourComments Off A long time ago, I dated (briefly) a girl whom I took out on the night before Thanksgiving. We went out with mutual friends to a bar, and we danced and drank and were young. At the end of the evening, I drove her home, and I kissed her goodnight. It was our first kiss, and I remember that cold November evening, the crunch of snow and crackle of ice, the sharp dark air full of possibility. I remember the feel of her lips against mine, the feel of her hair in my fingers, the skin of her cheek under my fingertips. A brief kiss, as the universe goes. A defiant flicker in the darkness. She told me, later, long after I'd turned and trudged back to my car and started it and driven home, that she'd melted against the door. Just like in the movies. I'm grateful for that moment. Comments Off
Edgar Allan Poe: World's First Kickstarter?Posted by Will Entrekin in books, publishingFunding has often been one of the most difficult elements of any artistic endeavor. Guys like Shakespeare and Marlowe got patrons, rich blokes who basically gave them a bunch of cash to write for them. Lots of authors nowadays hope to get funding from big corporations, as advances against the potential that the books they write might sell enough copies to turn a profit. Now, there's Kickstarter, which is a website that makes crowdfunding possible. Very interesting. Comments Off
Left-Brain Standards, Write-Brain StoriesPosted by Will Entrekin in Dear Writer, publishing, writingAll the "versus" debates floating around recently have made me think about debates in the first place. Binary thinking. Conceptual versus linear thinking. Which, of course, one could argue is just as binary. Tags: editing, editors, independent publishing, jk rowling, left brain, literary agents, publishing, reading, right brain, self-publishing, writingComments Off Interesting: as I discussed words and their meanings and how the ways they influence ideas (good and bad), a development: Giant corporate publisher Penguin announced "self-publishing services" through their Book Country site. And yes, those words are in quotation marks because that is not what is meant. At all. Tags: amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, Book Country, CreateSpace, kindle, nook, Pearson, Penguin, publishing, Putnam, RWA, self-publishing, SFWA, subsidy press, subsidy publishing, vanity press, vanity publishing, Writer Beware
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How Reading Stores Might Survive If Book Stores Can'tPosted by Will Entrekin in Amazon, books, Kindle, publishing, readingAs Amazon takes on more roles and responsibilities in the book world, many wonder if that's a great thing. I remember back when Amazon sold only books, before it was the retail powerhouse it has become, the online equivalent of big-box stores. Now, it's refocused on books, first with Kindle and then with publishing-related endeavors, setting up imprints as it has become both retailer and publisher in some cases. Lots of smaller, independent bookstores–by which one means bookstores that are privately held, and not part of a chain, which means anyone besides Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, basically–don't like this. They see Amazon as they saw Barnes & Noble when it was first beginning. The big boy on the block who set up shop next door and ultimately drove them out of business. As a reader, it saddens me. As guy with a business degree, it makes me wonder. Tags: amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, book stores, books, ipad, james patterson, kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, manhattan, Nook Color, Nook Tablet, publishing, reading, St. Mark's, stephen king, stephenie meyer, The Great Gatsby, TwilightComments Off
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IU wants to play on campuses while UK wants to play at neutral sites.
Bottom line: The series rivalry is over for now.
IU wants to play on campuses while UK wants to play at neutral sites.
Bottom line: The series rivalry is over for now.
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IU/Kentucky was played on neutral sites for years, what's the harm in going back to that? Downtown Indy was awesome for those games.
I hate to say this, but is Crean that worried about leaving Assembly Hall? Knight had no problem playing @ a neutral site.
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If UK doesn't feel comfortable in Assembly Hall, that's their tough luck. They're college games and should be played on campus. Period.
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Come on...you surely aren't serious.
Crean wants the campus experience. IU has the #1 student section in the country.
Calipari wants neutral sites. Why? I don't know or care. Good Lord, man, if I can be neutral in this surely you can. Afterall, my alma mater is involved.
Disagree. Students can still go to the games @ Indy and presumably Louisville, plus plenty more alumni and fans from both schools. Hotels, more bars, etc.
It is a shame that it had to end because of this though, it was a great rivarly. Why couldn't switch it up every 2 years?
Why not tear down campus stadiums and play every game at a neutral site?
Let's start with Hinkle.
I think the problem is that there isn't a neutral site option in KY. Yum won't take them. UK is using the neutral site as an excuse to walk away. Frankly I wish IU would call their bluff and offer to have it at LOS or BLF every year, but I can understand why they don't.
I don't know or care. Why do you?
So you are saying that IU & UK have only played 21 times?IU and Kentucky @ neutral sites - Kentucky 12 wins, IU 3
IU and Kentucky @ campuses - Kentucky 4 wins, IU 2.
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I'm totally lost here. What is your point? What was the last line supposed to be saying?
It doesn't matter if it's IU vs. UK, UNC vs. Duke, etc. Big time matchups that are played on college campuses are good for the sport. The atmosphere at Assembly Hall last year was incredible, just as it would have been at Rupp Arena next year when IU played them. When games go to neutral sites, it becomes stale and takes away one of the biggest reasons why college basketball is so great: the pep band, the electric atmosphere, and the noise. When it's played in a 75,000 seat football stadium, it's just not the same.
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What is Kentucky proposing as it's "neutral site" option?
I really don't care if it's on site, or at Indy/Lville, as long as they keep the game.
Neutral site traditions can work. The Texas/OU game (which I compare Kentucky/Indiana to in Bball, especially when UT-OU were in diff conferences) is special BECAUSE of the neutral site.
What a waste to see this rivalry go.
Texas-Texas A&M....
all now gone because of petty BS.
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Suggesting that Crean was worried about leaving Assembly Hall is nuts... Crean had no problem playing Kentucky on their own campus. It sucks for the student body on both campus to lose this as a home game every other year. Obviously the Kentucky Coach has realized that with Indiana back his one and dones would have to play a real contender every year in their first dozen games if this was to continue.
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I see no reason to end this game if it financially makes more money to go to neutral sites. I always thought the 50/50 was cool. Do it at Freedom and Hinkle. Do it somewhere in Cincy. Whatever.
How can the AD's not step in and over-rule the coaches in this situation? That given, why is Kentucky afraid of home and homes?


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The event will take place on Monday, March 12, at 7:00 p.m. at Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Left Bank Books.
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Lutz presents the highly anticipated fifth novel featuring fearless private investigator Izzy Spellman and her quirky, yet endearing, family of sleuths.
For the first time in Spellman history, Izzy might be the most normal member of her family. Mom has taken on an outrageous assortment of extracurricular activities--with no apparent motive. Dad has a secret. Izzy's brother and sister are at war--for no apparent reason. And her niece keeps saying "banana" even though she hates bananas. That's not to say that Izzy isn't without her own troubles. Her boyfriend, Henry Stone, keeps wanting "to talk," a prospect Isabel evades by going out with her new drinking buddy, none other than Gertrude Stone, Henry's mother.
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Lisa Lutz is the author of the New York Times bestselling, Edgar- and Macavity-nominated, and Alice Award-winning Spellman Series. She is most recently the author of "Heads You Lose," co-written with David Hayward.
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Things have become so serious between them so fast that no one in Hyannis Port would be surprised if they eloped."
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The notion of smooth super -groupoid is the combination of of super ∞-groupoid and smooth ∞-groupoid. The cohesive (∞,1)-topos of smooth super--groupoids is a context that realizes higher supergeometry.
Smooth super -groupoids include supermanifolds, super Lie groups and their deloopings etc. Under Lie differentiation these map to super L-∞ algebras.
We take a smooth super -groupoid to be a smooth ∞-groupoid but not over the base topos ∞Grpd of bare ∞-groupoids, but over the base topos Super∞Grpd of super ∞-groupoids.
Recall from the discussion at super ∞-groupoid that there is a canonical line object
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Write for the internal site in Super∞Grpd whose
morphisms are those morphisms of supersets that are smooth with respect to the canonical supermanifold structure on (see the section As manifolds over the base topos on superpoints) ].
coverage is given by the internal good open covers.
We have that
By the discussion of externalization at internal site.
In fact we have a commutative diagram of cohesive (∞,1)-toposes
We discuss realizations of the general abstract structures in a cohesive (∞,1)-topos realized in .
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Child benefit cuts proposed by expert group
Families will only qualify for the maximum child benefit payment if they earn less than €25,000 under a two-tier system set out in an expert group's report to be published today.
A reduced standard rate of about €110 a month would be paid for each child, down €20 from the current €130. The largest possible weekly "top-up" is €38, but the supplement would be cut as income increases beyond €25,000.
Parents would have to apply for the "top-up" online where they would be required to make a full declaration of household income.
Families with one child would lose their portion of the "top-up" and receive only the basic rate once income hit €34,935; those with two children when income reached €44,870, and those with three children when income was €54,805.
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Savings of €200 million could be achieved if this method of targeting child income supports is adopted, the advisory group on tax and social welfare's report claims.
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton commissioned the report, which she brought to Cabinet yesterday.
The report examined six reform options and concluded the two-tier system and the taxation of child benefit were the two most feasible, with the former described as the "preferable" method. "Some members of the group consider that taxation of child benefit remains an attractive option," the report states.
The Government does not have to adopt the report's favoured option or agree to set the threshold at €25,000.
A full payment would replace the current Qualified Child Increases (QCI) to social welfare recipients and Family Income Supplements (FIS) for those with low earnings, "and potentially the back to school clothing and footwear allowance also". However, the upper age limit for child benefit would remain 18 years while the current upper age limit for QCIs and FIS is 22 years.
Child benefit would remain a universal welfare payment made to all families with children, regardless of income.
Before last December's budget, the monthly payment was €140 for each of the first two children, €148 for the third child and €160 for each subsequent child. The rate was cut to €130 for the first two children and by €18 a month for the third child in the budget, yielding a saving of €140 million.


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Professor Pia earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting summa cum laude at the University of Detroit in 1985. He is also a 1994 cum laude graduate of the School of Law. During his time as a student at UDM Law, he was junior staff editor and then editor-in-chief of the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review. Following his J.D., Prof. Pia earned an LL.M. in Taxation at New York University School of Law, and then he returned to Detroit to work as a tax associate for Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss until the summer of 1996. His next position was with the tax department of General Motors Corporation in Detroit, followed by tax associate for Finkel, Whitefield, Selik, Raymond, Ferrara & Feldman, PC in Farmington Hills, MI.
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The Office of Student Leadership and Service is here to help all members of our campus community discover the power of service. We promote civic engagement and active global citizenship among our students, faculty and staff.
If you want to make a difference in the lives of others, you have come to the right place!
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MeredithREADS is a partnership with Motheread, Inc. through which volunteers go to elementary schools to work on literacy skills one-on-one with local children. All volunteers are trained and use the Motheread curriculum. The time commitment is approximately one hour a week for two semesters. Upcoming trainings will be held in September.
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Splash is a one-time service experience that will give you the opportunity to meet new students, have fun, and make a difference in the world. On Saturday August 21, 2010 we will have two service opportunities to participate in and a fun-filled afternoon of activities in the courtyard including a picnic lunch. Service project will include packaging meals with NC State for Stop Hunger Now and helping the Food Bank of Eastern and Central NC with work in their warehouse.
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The Office of Student Leadership and Service now provides funding for service projects. Students, faculty/staff, classes, or student organizations are eligible to submit an application for up to $100 in funding for a service project.
Service Break Trips
Do something different during you break. To prepare Meredith students for their roles as global citizens, the Office of Student Leadership and Service coordinates intensive service opportunities, both domestic and abroad. We are always looking for student participants, student leaders and faculty/staff chaperones. Past trips have included Turtle Island Preserve, Mississippi, and Belize. Contact us if you are interested in helping coordinate or participating in a service break trip.
Community Impact Award
The Community Impact Award will be given annually to the Meredith student who has exhibited an exemplary level of dedication to civic engagement and who has had a deep and lasting impact on Meredith College and the community. She will have strongly embraced Meredith's mission of global citizenship and service to others. This student will consistently have been a voice for community action in the classroom, in campus organizations, and in her world.
Nominators will be asked to complete a nomination form and a letter of recommendation.
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Project implementation approach
From drawings and discussions on user requirements, a budget cost and definition is formed. PSL considers some of the following:
- Is the feed system contained and what are the alternatives?
- Is the de-dusting product collection system contained and what methods could be used if required?
- How to access the machine safely and operate in a contained manner?
- Do we need to utilise a contained internal vacuum cleaning system?
Front end design study
We need direct access to the installed machine to undertake accurate site measurements as the design detail will be based on these measurements. This provides an opportunity for additional discussions and agreements and to produce final costs for the project implementation.
Retrofit containment project on a Bosch capsule filling machine
Project implementation
A full documentation package is provided for review prior to commencing final manufacture. The ideal situation is to ship the machine to our key service centre for final assembly and testing. Alternatively, it is possible to install on-site, however this does require larger costs and greater time.
Documentation packages and services up to IQ/OQ would normally be included.
The image on the right is an example of our latest retrofit containment project on a Bosch capsule filling machine which was completed for a US drug manufacturer. The design includes the gloves being held in special gloveport retainers with integral safety interlocked guards.
Our client required less than 1ųg /m� Operator Exposure Level (OEL) and required us to retrofit containment onto an existing capsule filling machine. Since PSL has experience of this type of application on numerous existing systems, we did a feasibility and mock-up study on their Bosch 400.
We removed the existing doors and retrofitted new swing-out doors with safety interlocks. Close detail was paid to the operational and maintenance access of the machine.
Manesty tablet press with contained de-dusting
The above image is an example of a Manesty tablet press with contained de-dusting. This project was undertaken for a Swiss drug company in China.
Recently PSL has been working with Capsugel on the Xceloprotect isolator (pictured below left). This comprises Capsugel�s Xcelodose precision powder microdosing system, integrated with PSL�s isolator for operator protection from exposure when filling potent compounds.
PSL has been working with Capsugel on the Xceloprotect isolator
All mechanical and electrical mechanisms of the Xcelodose system are contained within the lower half of the isolator to avoid contamination and facilitate easy access without breaking containment.
Dispensing, sampling and milling
PSL has been providing high containment formulation solutions for 23 years. All systems can be nitrogen purged, achieving high containment to nanogram levels for the handling of highly potent APIs.
PSL�s Dispensing Isolator can accommodate all types and sizes of pharmaceutical containers using an interlocked double inflatable seal system, which can incorporate PSL�s tiltable multi-drum chamber. PSL has vast experience integrating transfer devices, clean-in-place (CIP) and weigh systems.
PSL�s Milling Isolator provides high containment and a controlled safe environment while performing size reduction of active ingredients. It has been designed for enhanced operator viewing, ergonomics and an assured explosion protection system has been fully integrated into the design. PSL�s nitrogen purge systems are able to achieve less than 1% oxygen.
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