"Book Production Guide: 4th Edition": Free Smashwords Edition Has Been Released

Atlanta, GA, October 04, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Book Production Guide, 4th Edition (Paperback: $10, ISBN: 978-1-937536-25-1; Smashwords Edition: Free, ISBN: 978-1-310227-87-5; LCCN: 2012907287, 138pp, 6X9″, October 2014, 4th Edition): Explains all of the steps involved in creating a book with the Anaphora Literary Press. It is designed as a tool for editorial, marketing and design interns of the press. It can also be used by publishing industry professionals who are working for other publishing houses, want to start their own press or want to self-publish their book. This book can be a great tool in editing, marketing and design college classes. The fourth edition of the Guide includes more detailed design and marketing advice, and a long section with marketing lists of book reviewers, libraries, and bookstores that hold readings. You’ll also find instructions for making YouTube book trailers and Smashwords E-Books. Authors shouldn’t set out on new book production and marketing ventures without reviewing the helpful information provided.

Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. Previously, she taught college English for three years at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She published two academic books: "Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson" (McFarland, 2013) and "The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels" (McFarland, 2014). Her other publications include: two poetry collections: "Improvisational Arguments" (Fomite Press, 2011) and "Battle for Athens" (Anaphora, 2012), historical novels: "The Romances of George Sand" (Anaphora, 2014) and the forthcoming, "The Battle for Democracy" (Anaphora, 2015), fantasy novellas: "The Great Love of Queen Margaret, the Vampire" (Grim’s Labyrinth, 2014) and "The Campaigns against the Olden: Kindoms of Laruta" (Grim’s Labyrinth, 2014), an illustrated children’s book, The Sloths and I (Anaphora, 2013), and the "Book Production Guide" (Anaphora, 2014). She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009.

The Anaphora Literary Press was started as an academic press with the publication of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal (PLJ) in 2009. In the Winter of 2010, Anaphora began accepting book-length submissions. Anaphora has now published over 90 creative and non-fiction books. John Paul Jaramillo’s collection of short stories received an honorable mention for the Latino Literacy Now’s Mariposa Award Best First Fiction Book Award. Professors have taught from a few Anaphora books. Many Anaphora writers have scheduled readings at major bookstores. Anaphora books have also had several articles published about them in regional newspapers. PLJ has featured interviews with best-selling writers like Larry Niven, and Cinda Williams Chima, as well as interviews with the winners of the Sundance and Brooklyn Film festivals.