Inside Orange Hat

Big news! In time for our March royalty payments, I have completed our new royalty calculation tool. It’s all coded in the statistical programming language R, my programming language of choice. And it gives what I believe is unprecedented transparency in royalty calculations. Our authors can now see exactly the amount of compensation we received…

Orange Hat Publishing has new office space for work and meetings! You can find us at 11803 W North Ave, Suite 204, in Wauwatosa, WI! Orange Hat has had many homes over our nearly 14 years in business. One spot that was extra special was our suite in downtown Waukesha in the Thrive Architects building.…

One choice authors need to consider when publishing a book through Orange Hat is the wholesale discount they want to offer resellers (like bookstores). The wholesale discount is the sale price to resellers, the percent off the retail price and thus the profit earned by the store when someone buys the book. For example, offering…

It’s royalty time here at Orange Hat Publishing! We have a new system that I’ve built for handling all the data and calculating what is owed. I wrote it all in the statistical programming language R, because that’s the programming language I’m most familiar with. It does a pretty good job handling datasets, and our…

It’s common for an author to feel that publishers hold all the power. Until the advent of print-on-demand and self-publishing, authors trying to break through felt their limits acutely, with the metaphor gatekeeper feeling quite literal at times. And publishers abused this power, taking advantage of the oversupply of would-be authors to treat authors as…

I gave a presentation called “Publishing 101” at the Brookfield Public Library on Sunday. I’ve given this presentation a couple of times before, and it treads familiar territory for me. I do an overview of types of publishers, types of contracts, and some good-to-know pieces of information for anyone interested in the industry (usually folks…

Purchasing Orange Hat was like a dream coming true when you never knew you had the dream in the first place. Read the inside story on the transition from founder Shannon to new owner Michael.