THE YEAR OF THE MEMOIR

Blue Jay Ink has been very busy helping authors get their stories out into the world.

This year, 2023, continues to be a year of the memoir. Many of our clients have taken advantage of the Stay-at-Home orders during Covid 19 to complete their book projects.

Here are four of them: She’s Gone Chilaqules by Anna Schott, Ciao L’Americana, by Ruth Shari, Paris Part Time by Lisa Baker Morgan, and The Trick is to Drink it Quickly, by Anna Schott.

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Hooray! You’ve written it… You’ve edited it… It’s getting rave reviews by your trusty cohorts. Now it’s time to self publish. You go to one of many self publishing sites. Raring to go, you click on Get Started, and Lo and Behold, it’s not as easy as they make it appear to be! Blue Jay Ink, a division of Ojai Digital can help with all of your book publishing needs. From cover and book design to e-publishing and web marketing we can make this adventure a little bit easier. Here’s a brief overview of some of our book design and publishing services.

Book Cover Design
Interior Page Design
ISBN and Barcode (published with Blue Jay Ink)
Mentoring and developmental editing
Copy editing
Distribution fulfillment and printing through Ingram
Meta data management
Author support and marketing services: Book/Author website
Printed marketing materials: Flyer, sell sheets, bookmarks, promotional products
Book review submissions

Normally Unusual by Vince Kitchen

A stranger than fiction story (memoir) of a volunteer stuntman with adrenaline (and other) addictions. Includes natural disasters and many close calls, during his gravitational experimentations. A life close to the edge; lived in California, Costa Rica and the Philippines.
Written by a dyslexic, recovering alcoholic.

Buy the book from Ojai Digital (Blue Jay Ink).
19.95 + 3.90 shipping (orders shipped to US only) 23.85

this is boomslang by Joseph Nicks

Boomslang is the name of an arboreal African snake (Dispholidus typus) of the family Colubridae, known for its potent venom and rear-fanged jaw structure.It was also the label affixed to a widely-ignored poetic form championed by various disenfranchised and largely unpublished writers of the late twentieth century. The boomslang tongue can be vaguely traced back to its rather obscure roots in mid-1980s Long Beach (California) and even more tentatively to late-1970s Detroit. It was a malleable and difficult-to-define dialect often characterized by contra-diction, half-assonance, lexiflexion, and neologism. It was decidedly non-prosaic and generally ebbed and flowed in subtle to even elusive rhythms that followed a sort of unsung musicality. Very few examples have survived – and copies of these titles are now quite difficult to find (see Appendix B). Most of the authors have long since died or else descended deep into dementia, leaving Joseph Nicks as one of boomslang’s last remaining practitioners.

Bali High by Christy Standen Sebastian

It’s 1992 and miserably cold in Minneapolis. Cydney Peyton is restless, bored and ready for a break from winter and her job at a design firm she owns with her best friend, Lannie Kast. A phone call with a bizarre offer changes their lives forever.

Three weeks later, Cydney and Lannie find themselves on a plane to Bali where they are sent to pick up a mysterious fiancé, a manservant and a load of local handicrafts for a questionable patron. Paradise begins to unravel for the two friends when they are ensnared in an intrigue they cannot escape and in a situation that will test their fortitude and their friendship.

Bali High is both nerve-racking and hilarious – a buddy novel about women of a certain age who seek adventure only to find they have been over-served.

BIG NEWS!

Monona Wali’s My Blue Skin Lover wins the 2015 IPPY Gold Medal Award for Best Multicultural Fiction. The Independent Publishers Book Award is the largest international and regional independent book awards competition recognizing excellence in independent publishing. Each entry is judged on the quality of content, originality, design, and production with emphasis on innovation and social relevance. The judging panel includes experts from the fields of editing, design, reviewing, bookselling and library.