For a book that comes always has a long and complex section. That is the germ of traveler, an accompanying editorial trying new authors "from the kitchen to the outlet to the world" from their new jobs. Emerged as a detached literary workshops and courses, but can approach those willing, with the "obligation" to understand what is going initiative. Sabatés By Paula Mariana Meyer Photography
Buenos Aires, January 26 (agency NAN-2011) .- is known: the culture industry is an area of \u200b\u200bsurvival in the strong hold and weak fall by the wayside. Difficult is the situation of the publishing market, which often must contend with obstacles such as piracy or lack of interest in reading. Not to mention the difficulty of the authors, anyone who have come greatly complicates the circuit. Therefore, emerged as a detachment Always Travel, literature in progress - a confluence space workshops reading and writing and literary events and cycles - Traveling Editorial was formed in 2006 as an alternative to that system exclusive. "What happened from the workshops was that we followed throughout the production process of the book, but we had no way off copies. And that was strong enough for authors, because they found that the publication will take two years, which is the time to handle Publishers. So we made Traveling to accompany the author in his first book, from her kitchen until they leave the world ", tells Karina NAN Macció Agency, writer, lecturer and editorial director of the project. Traveling
born then with a noble task, but not too simple: make room for the first authors, guiding them in the process of creation and accompanying follow once edited the book. Of course that was both a risky undertaking, a big bet that not many publishers - much less an independent - have been encouraged to address. "It was played a lot. The author's first book can be a pearl, because when you investigate an author always comes back to see where it started. But while the first authors are fearful and no one knows, so the press is difficult, and you have to do much emphasis on the idea and the good of the project, "says Maccio.
Today, not all publishing on Traveling out of the workshops. "Our idea is to stay not only with people that comes from always traveling. On the contrary, the flag of the workshops is that of movement and still Traveler, "says the director. So many people came to offer manuscripts, but not all understand not finished editing the project. "Many believe this is an editorial in which it pays the book and do it. Well, it has nothing to do with it, to us who are interested in the aesthetic project, "Maccio sentence.
addition, Traveling is about to edit an author this: "you can also follow the post-publication, be encouraged and commit to a link to move the book to present at events, to defend it. If you are not willing to do that does not serve as an author and traveler does not help him, "Virginia said Janzen, who is also a writer, literary workshops and coordinating part of the editorial board of travelers. For her, the purpose of the editorial is to empower the author to write the best, take out one voice. "The issues are always the same, what changes is the way to see them and what that person can wake up," he says. Maccio, Janzen and Cecilia Maugeri, the third member of the editorial board, accompanied by the author from a central place: the editors. "The Editor's figure was falling over time and more with this new model in which there is only one person working next to the author, but infinite parts in a machine that is not, "says Maccio.
addition Discovering Collection, dedicated to new authors - there Janz and Maugeri published for the first time - presents the Collection Browse Traveling, which began with a book Macció, and published by authors who have published, "not so recognized and willing to travel the map of contemporary literature." Between the two collections, the publisher has published eleven books and plans to take some more this year. In addition, shortly will open with a new book by Maugeri, collection Bifida lyrics, to be composed of bilingual texts, which means that minimally there are two people involved in the process. As varied as the collections share something essential: Traveling all books belonging to the "artistic and poetic literature, one that strives to resource management and exploration of language, where the word is in the foreground. Editorials
this style does not abound: sustain work over time, being independent, it is difficult, especially when the book market is dominated by large icons that make sure the vast majority sales. Astute traveler stays here too: from the beginning, its members decided to personally distribution to generate a direct contact with the bookseller and premises, to those who choose based on their geographical location and its recognition in the literary field. "The distribution in bookstores is one of the major legs of travelers. At first it was difficult to enter them because they convince a person that you are going to continue to maintain the activity when you have two books is a difficult task. The truth is that booksellers also made a bet with us, "says Janzen, also responsible for the press and communication of the project. But Beyond the direct contact, was also the design of the books that convinced many of the distributors. "I always had the idea that the books were colorful, with a traditional format in that it does not get lost in the library because books are objects, they are very finite or something. We wanted a book-book, quite revolutionary because it was what was inside, "says Maccio, while acknowledging that books are also object-like, and that is why we always work with flats Travel and handcrafted editions. The other leg
important that travelers are betting cycles and literary events and touring, travelers that regularly hold art space, and those who are Traveling visit, where booksellers can see the announcement of the project, lyrics, combined, of which artists from different disciplines, and vice versa Traveling, where two guest authors read Crusaders. It goes without saying that any new project is born crossed by the metaphor of the journey because, as explained Macció, "has to do with our idea of \u200b\u200bliterature as a journey, more internal than physical, as an exploration. Because the trip is when you write but when you read. And as life is a journey and the story of that life becomes literature, literature is inevitably an adventure. "
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