So Let it Be Written, So Let it Be Recorded
23/04/09
My record producer, Paul Hodgert, has set me free for the day - after tracking the three readings that will be performed live at the May 27 show at the Park Theatre (http:www.parktheatervideo.com). We will put the readings together with the three songs already recorded (and posted on this site) The three songs will also be performed live at the Park. After Paul’s mixing and mastering, we will have a souvenir CD of the Park “Show” manufactured. These CD’s will be given out as souvenirs to everyone attending the May 27 gig. Some time soon we will also post the Show on this and on the book publisher’s website (http://www.bendecidobooks.ca). If you can’t be at the Park event (or at any of the events to follow where the CD will also be distributed) contact me and I’ll see if I can get one out to you.
Anyway, back to the story: Ray was a partner in a Winnipeg and Toronto based company that did graphics work for selected clients, and published a number of very successful specialty magazines. Ray also was a literary agent for a few people. Ray’s new idea was to expand his publishing interests to include books. If he did that, the effort that Ray was accustomed to putting into marketing on behalf on clients of his literary agency (like Sabrina Bernardo) could be expended fully on behalf of himself (i. e. his book publishing company) and his clients (i.e. me and some other folk) I thought it was a great idea, and spit in my hand, shook hands with Ray and said I’d be honoured to be the first adult fiction author for the new concern - and I promised that I would work full out to help support the launch in every way.
Long story short (too late?), Ray put his money where his mouth was and took over majority ownership and complete control of a new company, We Communication West Inc. Bendecido Books Inc. is the book publishing arm of the new group. Ray’s old partners are happy to still be involved, as are some new investors. That’s more than a lot of you want to know about business, so I promise to post about the book from now on! Or anything else that takes my fancy, or you want to hear about. Let me know.
Anyway, back to the story: Ray was a partner in a Winnipeg and Toronto based company that did graphics work for selected clients, and published a number of very successful specialty magazines. Ray also was a literary agent for a few people. Ray’s new idea was to expand his publishing interests to include books. If he did that, the effort that Ray was accustomed to putting into marketing on behalf on clients of his literary agency (like Sabrina Bernardo) could be expended fully on behalf of himself (i. e. his book publishing company) and his clients (i.e. me and some other folk) I thought it was a great idea, and spit in my hand, shook hands with Ray and said I’d be honoured to be the first adult fiction author for the new concern - and I promised that I would work full out to help support the launch in every way.
Long story short (too late?), Ray put his money where his mouth was and took over majority ownership and complete control of a new company, We Communication West Inc. Bendecido Books Inc. is the book publishing arm of the new group. Ray’s old partners are happy to still be involved, as are some new investors. That’s more than a lot of you want to know about business, so I promise to post about the book from now on! Or anything else that takes my fancy, or you want to hear about. Let me know.
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