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Non-Negotiable Issues

 

For those of you new to our blog, Welcome. In today’s short, I continue sharing my journey as an independent author and publisher. If you’ve been thinking about writing a book, we hope this series will be of encouragement and of use to you. Enjoy!

KBA Press
KBA Press

So now I’m at the point where Roy (the book designer) has been hired, the images have been picked out for each of the stops, and the manuscripts of the two books (Where Did They Put the Guillotine?—Walking Tours of Revolutionary Paris: 1789–1793) are completed. What’s my next step? Finding a printer.

 “What are your non-negotiable issues?”

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Image Licensing

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Well, I didn’t think I’d have to venture into the world of image licensing until I was ready to publish the fourth book (Where Did They Put the Gestapo Headquarters?—A Walking Tour of Nazi Occupied Paris: 1940–1944). I wrote a previous blog (Copyrighted Material?) concerning copyright issues but that was before I actually went through the process.

For the first two books (Where Did They Put the Guillotine?—Walking Tours of Revolutionary Paris: 1789–1793), I thought I could get away with using original contemporary photos, images of engravings from my collection, and the original maps created by my friends Tom and Habib at Locomotion Creative.

So Sandy, Dan (our nephew and photographer), and Stephanie (my consultant) spent a whole weekend (about 15-hours) going through all of the images and determining which ones to use in each stop for each walk. Roy (our book designer) told us that we had to have at least one image for each stop.

What I found were a lot of holes

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