On art and books and reading books on art (the thoughts of Hol publisher Greg Albers)

Entries in Team Publishing (2)

Wednesday
Jan062010

"sometimes love is a more powerful motivator than money"

Stacy Boyd, an editor at the peerless, and quite progressive, romance publisher Harlequin, posts about our team publishing model and Museum Legs. I love hearing these stories of discovery, first stumbling into us at the Brooklyn Book Fair, and then later reading about our model online, and eventually being led to delve deeper into both the book and the model and even to consider working on a book project with us down the road. This kind of intense, random, curiosity-driven individual exploration is both the reason and the reward for us.

And though Stacy mentions looking for a book project on museums, I'll point out that yes, there are indeed art romances out there, and yes, we'd love the chance to publish one.

Thursday
Nov122009

"Introduced to poets, thinkers and others who I might not have otherwise encountered"

Margaret Kimball, the talented cover designer of our newest release, "Nostaglia's Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings", has posted a nice round-up of the book and Hol's team publishing process on her blog.

This is a really interesting way of collaborating and of making the process of publishing accessible to virtually anyone with access to the internet. Through Hol, I was introduced to poets, thinkers and others who I might not have otherwise encountered and asked to think in new ways, which is always appreciated.

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