Just a quick note that I’ve been messing around with the site and have done a bit of an overhaul. I moved the entire site to wordpress, and have flattened the site structure a little bit, so hopefully make things easier to find. That said, there are probably some broken links or questionable navigation features, so please drop a line if you can’t find something…
A little over a year ago, I did an interview in Hipster Book Club, a site that covers news and reviews of cool alt/indie lit. The interview covered a lot of ground, but I specifically covered the genesis of Aitpl and why I decided to start the project. Check it out here:
http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/features/interviews/jonkonrath1008/index.html
Just a quick note to tell you what you can already see if you’re reading from our actual site – I have changed blog themes, and have a lot of layout tweaking ahead of me. I am also in the process of streamlining the whole paragraphline.com web site and moving it all to WordPress (I think.)
Give me a holler if you see anything out of place or dysfunctional. I’m in the middle of working on the book layout for Air in the Paragraph Line #13, so you may have to mind the dust for a bit longer.
I just got an email this morning containing the first block of ISBN numbers assigned to Paragraph Line books!
This is cool to me because in the past, I’ve always used PoD services like Lulu.com to handle distribution, so my ISBNs came from their assigned blocks. That meant that if you plugged in 978-0595134946 and looked up Summer Rain, you would see IUniverse as the publisher. But now, my block of ISBN numbers will show Paragraph Line Books.
This is also a big point for me, because it’s the first major investment I had to take in getting things started here. I hemmed and hawed over just going back to Lulu for fulfillment of the next zine, because I didn’t want to shell out $275 for ten numbers and then do one more issue and get bored. But now that I have blown the money, I am on the hook for publishing another ten books in the future. More about that later…