{"id":387,"date":"2011-04-11T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-04-11T18:27:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:27:39","slug":"weighed-words-micropublisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2011\/04\/weighed-words-micropublisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighed Words, Micropublisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often find something in <a title=\"Nathan Bransford: Who SHould Have Indie Label\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/blog.nathanbransford.com\/2011\/04\/who-deserves-indie-label.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Bransford<\/a>\u2019s blogs. He\u2019s a smart guy. His April 6 column asked: Who Should Have the \u2018Indie\u2019 Label: Self Publishers or Small Presses?<\/p>\n<p>I bristle when someone refers to my project as self-publishing because although this is a project I have published, it is not self-publishing.\u00a0 Weighed Words won\u2019t publish my novel or yours. The same goes for your chapbook and mine.<\/p>\n<p>Weighed Words has a specific mission to publish mixed-genre anthologies of smart, compelling writing that speaks to the reader in a genuine voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cRead not to contradict and confute . . . but to weigh and consider.\u201d<em> \u2014Francis Bacon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We seek to publish writing that make readers think, that leads them to weigh and consider the words long after the book is closed.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Weighed Words is an imprint of <a title=\"Hourglass Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hourglassbooks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hourglass Books<\/a>, which has published three anthologies of short stories (<em>Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters<\/em>, <em>The Long Meanwhile: Stories of Arrival and Departure<\/em>, and <em>Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories from the Left Hand of God)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan says, \u201cIndependent publishers outside of the Big Six, like Soho and Algonquin, have been known as \u2018Indie\u2019 publishers for a long time. The authors who are (traditionally) published by them wear their Indie cred with pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weighed Words might be too new to have enough cred to be considered an indie. But we&#8217;re on the right track. From what I&#8217;ve \u00a0heard from contributing writers, they are proud to be in <em>Solace in So Many Words<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that Weighed Words is a micropublisher. Like a microbrewer. Maybe one day Weighed Words will qualify as an indie. A label is just a label.\u00a0 I\u2019ll focus on the product for now.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a writer considering self-publishing, you should read Nathan\u2019s \u201c<a title=\"Nathan Bransford You Tell Me: Would You Consider Self-Publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.nathanbransford.com\/2010\/10\/you-tell-me-would-you-consider-self.html\" target=\"_blank\">You Tell Me: Would You Consider Self-Publishing<\/a>?\u2019 and \u201c<a title=\"Nathan Bransford Should You Self-Publish? Ten Questions to Ask Yourself\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.nathanbransford.com\/2010\/03\/should-you-self-publish-ten-questions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Should You Self-Publish? Ten Questions to Ask Yourself<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often find something in Nathan Bransford\u2019s blogs. He\u2019s a smart guy. His April 6 column asked: Who Should Have the \u2018Indie\u2019 Label: Self Publishers or Small Presses? I bristle when someone refers to my project as self-publishing because although this is a project I have published, it is not self-publishing.\u00a0 Weighed Words won\u2019t publish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,131,130,128,132,73,17,129,16,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-francis-bacon","9":"tag-hourglass-books","10":"tag-indie-publisher","11":"tag-mixed-genre-anthology","12":"tag-nathan-bransford","13":"tag-publication-date","14":"tag-self-publisher","15":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","16":"tag-weighed-words","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}