Interview with Gregory Benford
Want to Know What Lies Ahead for Publishing? Ask a Best-Selling SF Author Lucky Bat Books asked author Gregory Benford, best-selling author of science fiction novels and stories, to delve into what...
View ArticleInterview with Grant Korgan
What Does It Take to Walk Again? Ask an Extreme Athlete and Author. Two Steps Back by Grant Korgan coming in March. Lucky Bat Books Project Manager Jessica Santina interviewed author Grant Korgan,...
View ArticlePublishing Strategy for Foreign Rights
by Judith Harlan. We wrestled with the where’s and how’s of publishing to just the foreign market for one of Janis Ian’s popular books, Society’s Child: my autobiography, which we put out last month....
View ArticleThe Lamb by Jacci Turner
Book Three in The Birthright Series. In a world of high school friendship — with a bit of magic and mystery thrown in — The Birthright Series by Jacci Turner takes the YA reader on a compelling and...
View ArticleWhat We Learned in 2012 – For a Happy 2013
Publishing Notes from the Lucky Bat Books Team We’re approaching the end of a year, beginning of a new one, and what did we learn in 2012? What’s going to matter in 2013? It takes a team—a highly...
View ArticleDo You Have the Right to Tell Your Story?
It seems so simple: Something interesting and noteworthy happens to you, you have gained wisdom and insights from it, and you decide to tell your story to the world. It’s your story, right? You’re...
View ArticleSeven Ways Publishing is like Baseball, by Jeff Posey
Fortunately, readers are as perceptive as baseball fans. What’s up with baseball owners, professional players, and sports agents? Can’t they see their commercial value eroding because so many amateurs...
View ArticleBirth of a Beautiful Book Cover
Listen in as book cover artist and fiction writer develop a fantasy cover. By Judith Harlan. We work with several terrific artists and lots of talented writers, and one of the most fascinating aspects...
View ArticleCongrats to the Winner of the Lucky Bat Books Doorprize at DFWCon!
Congratulations to writer Brigid Melloy, winner of the Lucky Bat Books publishing package at the Dallas Fort Worth Writers Conference. The doorprize is a $2,000-plus package of ebook, print, cover,...
View ArticleLive the Writer’s Life – Live the Wufu.
We offer you our Wufu, the Chinese symbol for the five happinesses: Health, Wealth, Long Life, Good Luck, and Tranquility. Submit your fiction and nonfiction to Lucky Bat Books and begin your writer’s...
View ArticleMorning’s Journey by Kim Headlee
Published and on sale in ebook and print! Kim Headlee’s second book in the Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, Morning’s Journey takes warrior queen Gyan (Guinevere) into battles alongside her consort, King...
View ArticleLauren Fogle Boyd
Historical Fiction and Mystery. From History Professor and Author, Lauren Fogle Boyd, a harrowing and heartwarming story. The Story: In the suffocating atmosphere of the Third Reich, art becomes a...
View ArticleWelcome Dayle Dermatis
Today is our day to extend a big hearty welcome to Dayle Dermatis, as she joins the managing editor team at Lucky Bat Books. Dayle has worked with Lucky Bat Books as an editor and now is jumping over...
View ArticleMeet Managing Editor Sarah Katreen Hoggatt
Today is our day to extend a big hearty welcome to Sarah Katreen Hoggat, as she joins the managing editor team at Lucky Bat Books. Sarah, a Salem, Oregon editor and publisher, has been working with...
View ArticleWorking with Lucky Bat Books
What’s it like to work with Lucky Bat Books? When a Lucky Bat Books author posts a blog about his experiences working with us, well, wouldn’t we be crazy not to share it? Especially since it gives you...
View ArticleRecent Covers by Lucky Bat Books Artists
by Judith. We don’t usually have the chance to simply share the brilliance of Lucky Bat Books artists, so I said, why not? I am constantly amazed and in awe of the concepts our artists conjure up and...
View ArticleMr. Kissinger and Me
Elevating our expectations: Guest blog by J.S. Anderson, Lucky Bat Books Author of Book of Hours: The Beguilement of Brother Alphaios. There’s a story, likely apocryphal but nonetheless useful, about...
View ArticleSee Us At The Portland Book Fest
Are you in or near Portland? Love books? Drop by the 6th Annual NW Book Festival on Saturday, July 26, from 11 to 5 pm. Lucky Bat Books will be there, along with two of our fiction writers, J.S....
View ArticleSee You at the NW Book Festival? We Hope So!
Love books? Love writing? Love meeting authors? Curious about how Lucky Bat Books chooses its authors and publishes books? Let’s talk. — Drop by the 7th Annual NW Book Festival on Saturday, July 25,...
View ArticleLucky Bat Books Publishes Poetry by Janis Ian
We all know Janis Ian as an internationally famous songwriter and performer, but she’s been showing us over the last several years that she is also multi-talented. At about the time she was writing At...
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