Publisher Guide
Daniel LisiEntries on the art and business of publishing by Daniel Lisi, publisher of Not a Cult and Network Press.
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How Bestseller Lists Work
Daniel Lisi is a publisher in Los Angeles, California. He is the publisher of Network Press and Not a Cult. Recently, Lisi published A Book About Books, a guide to how the book industry works.
As publishers, we trade in curated lis...
Problems with Book Publishing
Today is Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Tuesday is ruled by Mars, the god of war—a day for strategic action, bold announcements, decisive moves against adversaries, and new releases.
As such today is the publishing date of my book, A Book About...
Preview: A Book About Books
Reader, I have a confession. While I started Publisher Guide to share lessons on the business and inner workings of publishing books, I also intended it to help focus my writing practice and develop my second book, A Book About Books.
I r...
The Last Bookstore's "Small Press Spotlight"
Adam Weddle of The Last Bookstore interviewed me for their inaugural episode of Small Press Spotlight, a new podcast project looking at the landscape of literary Los Angeles.
The interview touches on one of my biggest public failures, the...
What does a publisher do, exactly?
Preface
The following is a vertical slice from the curriculum I developed for the “book track” of the Los Angeles Review of Books Publisher’s Workshop staged earlier this summer.
Here we’re answering the question, what does a publis...
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