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News about Stillpoint Digital Press books, authors and other offerings

What can we do for you?

When it comes to words,

what can’t we?

Publishing (fiction, trade and academic non-fiction)

  • Design your book in print and/or ebook format
  • Print formats from simple black-and-white to complex, illustrated four-color
  • Ebook formats—Kindle (mobi/KF8) & ePub:
  • Fixed layout, flowing text, read-aloud, video- or audio-enhanced, etc.
  • Create a cover
  • Arrange printing—offset, short-run, or print-on-demand
  • Manage distribution
  • Work with you to market your book

Ebook Design

  • Quick and accurate ebook conversion from print or digital original
  • Cover Design
  • Distribution to all major outlets

Audiobook Production

  • Narration, recording, and editing
  • Distribution to Audible, Amazon, and iTunes

Editorial Services (books, papers, dissertations, programs, catalogs, fliers, websites, etc.)

  • Substantive and developmental editing
  • Co-writing
  • Copyediting and proofreading
  • Indexing
  • Image & quotes research and permissions

Contact us at [email protected]

The Power — and the Study — of Myth


Angkor Wat

In the latter half of the 20th century, mythologist Joseph Campbell’s vast body of work — from “The Hero With A Thousand Faces” in 1949 to the broadcast of “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers” just months after his passing — resuscitated interest in comparative mythology, revitalizing the study of the field that Campbell called “the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.”

However, that interest hasn’t necessarily translated into formal acceptance on college campuses. “Academia doesn’t seem to know what to do with mythology,” says Stephen Gerringer of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Continue reading The Power — and the Study — of Myth

Sail Away Signing a Huge Success

Author Jack Beritzhoff reads from his newly published memoir Sail Away: Journeys of a Merchant Seaman
Author Jack Beritzhoff reads from his newly published memoir Sail Away: Journeys of a Merchant Seaman

August 5, Larkspur, CA. Jack Beritzhoff (93) didn’t start writing until he was ninety. Today, a packed house at Folio 949 listened to him read from his newly-published memoir, Sail Away: Journeys of a Merchant Seaman and then lined up to have the “young. aspiring author” (as he described himself) read from his book of memories about the time that he served as a member of the US Merchant Marine from early in World War II through the Korean War. Continue reading Sail Away Signing a Huge Success

Stillpoint author Kate Moore talks Romance and the RITA® Awards

To Seduce an Angel

When Kate Moore heads south to Anaheim this weekend to attend the Romance Writers of America’s RITA® Awards, it will be for more than a chance to connect with her fans and fellow romance novelists. Her historical novel To Seduce an Angel is up for the Best Regency Historical Romance award.

Continue reading Stillpoint author Kate Moore talks Romance and the RITA® Awards

Writing the Inevitable but Unexpected

A novel never sleeps.

We’re on vacation. As my family plays, I’m working on yet another round of rewrites for a young-adult novel, trying to add a scene about half of the way through.

This has had me thinking quite a bit about the idea of justification—not as in left, right, and center, but as in setting up a scene properly so that a reader neither feels as if it came out of nowhere nor as if it was far too long in coming. Getting it just right is obviously every storyteller’s goal, and one of the more challenging aspects of storytelling. Aristotle said that the end of an effective plot must be “unexpected but inevitable.” I’d say, though, that the same can be true of any good scene, and it doesn’t take a whole lot to mess it up in one direction or the other.

The reason that I’ve had this on my mind, other than my on-going story addiction/obsession, is that the last two books I’ve emerged myself in were Victoria Roth’s Divergent and George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.

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Last Day of the Kickstarter Drive!

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Today is the final day to help launch Stillpoint Digital Press’s first original title by contributing to the Kickstarter drive for Sail Away: Journeys of a Merchant Seaman! We’ve already achieved our minimum funding goal thanks to the support of a wonderful group of backers. This guarantees that we’ll be able to get the book completed as envisioned and on schedule. Any additional pledges will ensure that this nautical memoir will reach the audience that it deserves.

If you’ve already pledged, your support is gratefully appreciated! If you’ve been waiting, pledge now and reserve one of the very first copies of the print and/or ebook edition. The link is: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/334886999/sail-away-first-title-in-stillpoint-memory-memoir

Let the Wild Rumpus Start

Maurice Sendak, Author of Where the Wild Things Are, Dies at 83


Image © copyright 1963, Maurice Sendak

If you were to ask me what piece of literature has had the most profound impact on me, I wouldn’t have to think at all. It was Maurice Sendak’s picture-book masterpiece, Where the Wild Things Are.

Continue reading Let the Wild Rumpus Start

Stillpoint Digital Press:

So, remember the news I’ve been hinting at?

Here it is:

The Human Face of Digital Publishing

The ebook explosion has promised a new relationship between authors and their readers—one that is more immediate and personal. And yet writers looking to take advantage of this new medium find themselves in a familiar bind: either seek to publish through a traditional publisher and receive pennies on the dollar, self-publish, or use a service that is happy to publish your book for you (for either a fee or a percentage of sales)–but without providing any editorial services.

Stillpoint Digital Press is an ebook publisher that provides a human touch. We are an experienced publisher of electronic and print books, ready to help you convert your manuscript or your print volume (whether in- or out-of-print) into a vibrant, exciting digital book. We will help you edit, create a cover, design, and sell your book.

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Psst! Check it out!

A project (with attendant website) that I’ve been working on for months has gone live:

Stillpoint Digital Press: The Human Face of Digital Publishing

It’s still in the early stages, but I’d love you to check it out and tell me what you think!

Testing a second User

So, this is a post from a second user. Does it work?

Continue reading Testing a second User