Tag: publishing

• October 29, 2025

  Celebrate Local Authors at the Carroll County Farmers Market, Nov 1!

  Celebrate Maryland’s creative community at the 2025 Local Authors Day in Westminster! Meet local writers, explore handmade crafts, and enjoy the charm of the Carroll County Farmers Market — plus get your signed copy of Welcome to Seagull Street by Alissa Arford.
• July 10, 2025

  Building Something from Scratch

  Indie publishing isn’t just writing a book. It’s ordering ISBNs and barcodes, wrangling metadata, applying for sales tax IDs, calculating shipping fees, adjusting printer margins, Googling how to send a 1099 to your editor ASAP because you had no clue, and answering emails like, “Your barcode placement is not up to spec,” at 1:27 a.m.—when…
• May 2, 2025

  From First Draft to Final Proof: The Long Road to Seagull Street

  If you’re going to do something, do it right. That’s been my personal motto for as long as I can remember. Maybe that’s why it took me nearly two years to write and publish my debut novel, “Welcome to Seagull Street: That Summer in Ocean City, Maryland.”