Posts by Michael
Amazing Things Can Happen When Selling Your Books!
In this guest author post, author Jean Huxtable-Hamersky shares her experiences selling her book Parker’s Pumpkin at farmer’s markets and similar fairs. Not everyone likes selling their books face to face, but I enjoy the personal interaction much more than online selling. This comes somewhat from my 35 years as a speech-language pathologist working with…
Read MoreAnnouncing Our New Office Space!
Orange Hat Publishing has new office space for work and meetings! You can find us at 11803 W North Ave, Suite 204, in Wauwatosa, WI! Orange Hat has had many homes over our nearly 14 years in business. One spot that was extra special was our suite in downtown Waukesha in the Thrive Architects building.…
Read MoreUnderstanding Wholesale Discounts
One choice authors need to consider when publishing a book through Orange Hat is the wholesale discount they want to offer resellers (like bookstores). The wholesale discount is the sale price to resellers, the percent off the retail price and thus the profit earned by the store when someone buys the book. For example, offering…
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Call Your Work a Draft to Accept Criticism More Easily
If you call your work a draft, then you come to expect feedback and are more ready to make edits.
Read MoreMiddle Grade Magic
In this guest post, author Laura Anne Bird (Crossing the Pressure Line and Marvelous Jackson) shares what she loves most about middle grade fiction. I can’t think of one grown-up who wouldn’t benefit from reading a middle-grade novel. But why would an adult want to crack open a book written for eight- to twelve-year-olds? Because…
Read MoreOn Writing Slim, A Technique for Productive Writing
All credit to author Colleen Behnke for the term “writing slim.” She mentioned it to me as we discussed working together to publish her middle grade novel Marshmallow. I had asked her about her approach to writing, and she said she tends to “write slim.” I immediately connected to the term. It reminded me of…
Read MoreHow Well Do Ebooks Sell?
It’s royalty time here at Orange Hat Publishing! We have a new system that I’ve built for handling all the data and calculating what is owed. I wrote it all in the statistical programming language R, because that’s the programming language I’m most familiar with. It does a pretty good job handling datasets, and our…
Read MoreTailspin, Unexpected Success, and What’s Next
In this post, guest author John Armbruster reflects on publishing Ten16’s bestseller Tailspin. My book Tailspin came out in April of 2022. This narrative nonfiction work centers on the story of Gene Moran, a World War II tail gunner from Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, who was shot down over Germany in 1943 and survived a four-mile…
Read MoreStumbling Over Pebbles—The Little Things in Stories
I’m going to write a little scene here, and I want you to tell me what you think about it. I stopped over to visit Jenny at her home a mile outside of downtown Milwaukee. She and her husband had bought the ten acres of land about four years ago and had built an intimidating…
Read MoreComfort Reads
My family and I all ended up getting the flu over the weekend. Our symptoms have been tiredness and cough and thankfully none of the grosser aspects of flu. Our daughter Plum (age 2) got it first on Friday and stayed home from daycare. I started feeling it Friday night and was pretty exhausted Saturday…
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