{"id":6026,"date":"2025-02-06T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2025-02-06T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:29:11","slug":"how-does-a-press-become-an-imprint-w-jelani-memory-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/how-does-a-press-become-an-imprint-w-jelani-memory-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"How does a press become an imprint? w\/ Jelani Memory | A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s episode 300! <br><br>This week on the pod, Elly, Joe, and Bernie are joined by Jelani Memory of <a href=\"https:\/\/akidsco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoriQoHMTraLg6ZJ9lIvj4I85NlLUbjOA7cqMScsXTnz9qKzci1r\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/akidsco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoriQoHMTraLg6ZJ9lIvj4I85NlLUbjOA7cqMScsXTnz9qKzci1r\">A Kids Co<\/a>, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/08\/01\/think-out-loud-childrens-books-kid-co-jelani-memory\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/08\/01\/think-out-loud-childrens-books-kid-co-jelani-memory\/\">became an imprint of DK<\/a>. They talk about taking making your press an imprint of a larger publisher instead of just having it distributed, sticking to your mission during the process, and making your business like a cockroach (unkillable!).<br><br>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s episode 300! This week on the pod, Elly, Joe, and Bernie are joined by Jelani Memory of A Kids Co, which recently became an imprint of DK. They talk about taking making your press an imprint of a larger publisher instead of just having it distributed, sticking to your mission during the process, and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/how-does-a-press-become-an-imprint-w-jelani-memory-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing-podcast\/\" title=\"Read How does a press become an imprint? w\/ Jelani Memory | A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing Podcast\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,12,11,26],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-interviews","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It's episode 300! <br><br>This week on the pod, Elly, Joe, and Bernie are joined by Jelani Memory of <a href=\"https:\/\/akidsco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoriQoHMTraLg6ZJ9lIvj4I85NlLUbjOA7cqMScsXTnz9qKzci1r\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/akidsco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoriQoHMTraLg6ZJ9lIvj4I85NlLUbjOA7cqMScsXTnz9qKzci1r\">A Kids Co<\/a>, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/08\/01\/think-out-loud-childrens-books-kid-co-jelani-memory\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/08\/01\/think-out-loud-childrens-books-kid-co-jelani-memory\/\">became an imprint of DK<\/a>. They talk about taking making your press an imprint of a larger publisher instead of just having it distributed, sticking to your mission during the process, and making your business like a cockroach (unkillable!).<br><br>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s episode 300! <br><br>This week on the pod, Elly, Joe, and Bernie are joined by Jelani Memory of <a href=\"https:\/\/akidsco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoriQoHMTraLg6ZJ9lIvj4I85NlLUbjOA7cqMScsXTnz9qKzci1r\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/akidsco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoriQoHMTraLg6ZJ9lIvj4I85NlLUbjOA7cqMScsXTnz9qKzci1r\">A Kids Co<\/a>, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/08\/01\/think-out-loud-childrens-books-kid-co-jelani-memory\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/08\/01\/think-out-loud-childrens-books-kid-co-jelani-memory\/\">became an imprint of DK<\/a>. They talk about taking making your press an imprint of a larger publisher instead of just having it distributed, sticking to your mission during the process, and making your business like a cockroach (unkillable!).<br><br>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<br><\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}