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jpal75
Joined: 16 Apr 2003
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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:28 pm Post subject: How to publish in Korea? |
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 Need help. A colleague has compiled a neat book on working & livng in Korea. It's quite comprehensive without getting too thick. It's a compilation of his own experiences and experiences of others derived from interviews. We've tried to ask our Korean colleagues but to no avail. Any idea on how we can at least get his work seen? |
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Mr. Kalgukshi
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:27 pm Post subject: Not Easy |
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It's not easy. It takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of time. You need to find a Korean who knows the workings of the publishing scene. You need to be able to trust this person implicitly and he/she and you must be willing to invest a lot of time and energy in making the rounds and showing off your work. It does not happen overnight. If you get lucky and manage to get the first book published, it's much easier to interest a publisher in the second one.
Regarding the book you mentioned, where is the target audience? Korea? Outside Korea? In what language will the book be published?
If I can help more, pm me. Good luck. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I'm in a similar position.. I wrote a self-biographical fiction novel about 4-5 years ago about my experience in Busan. I tried to publish it when I lived in New York City a few years ago.. but couldn't even get anyone to even consider looking at it.. much less publish it.
I saw another foreigner published a book at Kyobo.. it said it had a Kyobo publisher.. I was thinking of attempting it there..
Also, Bangkok seems to have a lot of publishers as well.. one called 'Asia Books'.. I was considering that possibility as well.
Frankly though, after two years in NYC and going through all the motions and not having anyone even have a spark of interest in looking at it.. most wouldn't even go through the cover letter to spark interest.. I basically gave up.
If you figure it out.. I'd love to know.. because I wouldn't mind attempting to publish it over here somewhere in Asia again.. particurlarly since it takes place here.. |
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Squid
Joined: 25 Jul 2003
Location: Sunny Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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Walk into the English department of your local University and ask the HOD who's been most recently published and could they give you any pointers.
Oh, and TB, don't give up...ever.
Squid the nominally published |
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saharzie
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:34 am Post subject: |
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Get some excerpts published in papers around Asia..or try and get into Time Asia/Newsweek etc...If you have previous published articles, you are more likely to get a look....
There are also frequent travel anthologies published, try and get a short piece in one of them....just try a few different angles...
www.worldhum.com
www.rolfpotts.com
two places maybe you can get some inspiration
good luck |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Why not just post them to a website? Or if all you want is a vanity publishing, there are "on-demand" companies that will do small runs with a setup fee. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| saharzie wrote: |
| www.rolfpotts.com |
VERY COOL GUY! I've known that guy for about 5 years.. worked with a good friend of his in NYC as well.. Rolf was a Pusan-er back in the pre-IMF days running with some of the same friends I ran with.
He's been writing for a long time for Salon.com and quite a few other places.. been interviewed on NPR (National Public Radio) in the States a few times and recently published his first book earlier this January. Saw it in Barnes & Nobles (a major bookstore in the States) on the shelves. He's doing great. His writing is definetely some of the best I've ever seen anywhere.
Actually I received an email from him recently and he's planning a huge Latin American trip!!! Which is something close to my own heart, as I love it down there. More or less the last few years he's been living and writing in Thailand.. maybe the better part of the last 4 years I think.. something like that.. well, that is when he hasn't been off on writing assignments and doing massive traveling.
Damn I was hoping to meet up with him in Thailand as well on my trip down there in a few days.. but I believe he started off on his Latin American run..
Regardless.. cool stuff. Plus he's basically the exact same as most of us.. teaching and traveling from here.. and his career was just launched from it. Some of that old stuff he published on Salon.com was great stuff as well.
I'm a huge Rolf Potts fan. There is some old stuff on the pusanweb from his as well when he lived there. Including some great footage from a videocamera. He was interviewed on some return trip here or something like that. Its been a long time since I saw that footage but his footprints from the past still remain around those pages and elsewhere from back in the day. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| Why not just post them to a website? Or if all you want is a vanity publishing, there are "on-demand" companies that will do small runs with a setup fee. |
I was thinking of publishing mine off my website using acrobat. Another thought was just vanity publishing and scatter it all around southeast asia.
But actually when I had more 'gusto' in me.. I didn't want to make any compromises with vanity publishers.. at this point.. having long given up on having the right connections to even have anything looked at.. I was thinking of going with it and scattering it all over southeast Asian streets and used bookstores as a way to self-advertise the thing.. as well as excerpts off my own website.
All thoughts though.. as is.. I haven't even touched the thing since I left NYC about 3 years ago.. writing is incredibly easy.. its the marketing, publishing, getting recognized, neworking, making the right connections which is the true art and the true skills. Unfortunately its an either/or world.. I hate the latter stuff.. writing to me is the most natural thing in the world. Getting it out to the world is a totally different skill. |
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jpal75
Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Location: NeverNeverLand
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject: Thanks All |
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Wow,
Glad to know all the info...
The book will actually be called "The Beginners Handbook to Teaching". It doesn't just offer tips about teaching but explains a lot of the things that you find in the Internet. Visa's; Contracts etc...It'll be in English with some parts in Korea. (Teaching instructions in Korean)
The target audience would be the inexperienced teachers. My colleague and I both have extensive teaching experiences so it was decided to write.
The suggestion of publishing this on the web is fantastic. However, just like the lonely planet book, isn't it much better to be able to carry a hard copy of everything you need to know?
Just a correction this book doesn't proclaim to have all the answers but it will be a guide book. ALso, anecdotes from other English teachers re teaching and living experiences have been included. The text is not entirely complete but any help would be great!!
Anyone else wants to contribute?  |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Get an agent. You need one if you're going to publish (and make money). Period. End of story. |
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jpal75
Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Location: NeverNeverLand
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| mack the knife wrote: |
| Get an agent. You need one if you're going to publish (and make money). Period. End of story. |
The operative word here is: "how?" |
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Mr. Kalgukshi
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject: Not Always True |
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| mack the knife wrote: |
| Get an agent. You need one if you're going to publish (and make money). Period. End of story. |
__________________________
From personal experience, this is not always true. |
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CaptPorridge
Joined: 17 Oct 2003
Location: Saudi Arabia
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Hey guys,
Any advice on getting an existing published book, (in english)
translated and published into Korean???
I emailed a couple of publishers but didn't get a responce,
The author (not me) is interested in it being released here, but actually told me the government might not allow it??? That blew me away, since
the book has already been published in about 7 other languages, and oh man, if there was ever a country that needed this kind of book it's Korea!
any advice or publishing comapnies would be appreciated,
pb4 |
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jpal75
Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Location: NeverNeverLand
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| CaptPorridge wrote: |
Hey guys,
if there was ever a country that needed this kind of book it's Korea!
any advice or publishing comapnies would be appreciated,
pb4 |
What's the book title? |
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CaptPorridge
Joined: 17 Oct 2003
Location: Saudi Arabia
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