Inter-dependent Publishing – CraniOcean Media

Sometimes I like to post things here just so I can know where to find them later on.  For context, inter-dependent publisher, CraniOcean Media was previously, Second Force Productions.

Second Force Productions was the name of the L.A. production team that we’d set up to do the play, “Sometimes I Can’t Tell the Difference Between L.A. and My Mind!” I do hope this play will become avaialble as a published work at some point — it’s that good.

Vanity Publishing VS Self Publishing – which way to go?

(Why not, inter-dependent publishing?)

This description of Vanity Publishing and Self Publishing, below, was provided by Ron P. of Self Publishing.com, the first printer used for Touch the Ocean, and they did a darn good job in the first printing run. Ron is very clear about these things since he makes his way as a printer (not as a publisher) for both self published, internet, and mainstream publishers.  I think it’s somewhat instructive for those still finding their way through the maze of the publishing business and internet publishing.  BTW, I call self publishing “inter-dependent” publishing, because as I’ve found, there is no such thing as a book made by one person alone.  Or a play for the stage, even if a solo venture.

Enjoy!

VANITY PUBLISHING or SELF PUBLISHING?

WHICH ONE IS FOR YOU? The difference between the two is simple but significant. Self Publishing means that you… self … are the publisher. Vanity Publishing is paying another publisher to publish your book. What does this mean to you?

Vanity Publishing

Vanity Press is the publisher
Vanity Press owns the ISBN
Vanity Press owns the printing files
Author pays all the production costs
Author earns a royalty
Vanity Press earns the publisher profit

Self Publishing

Author is the publisher
Author owns the ISBN
Author owns the printing files
Author pays all the production costs
Author earns a royalty
Author earns the publisher profit

by Ron P., Self Publishing, Inc. http://www.selfpublishing.com

Now, CraniOcean Media just uses Lightning Source –  like about everybody else these days — to avoid overstocking someone’s dining room table with cartons of books — mainly, moi! Lightning Source does a very nice job, but that first-ever  print run from Ron’s company was well done.

– Just thinking out loud, again, these are just notes pretending to be blog entries!

You are actually publishing when you post a blog entry — provided you are not paying for your blog provider — then it’s vanity publishing, technically speaking.

Mp3 and Audio Book (CD) for Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions, rides wave!

WEST PALM BEACH, FL — 2/14/2010 — The unabridged Audio Book for Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions,  by James Nemec, LMT, CST-D, read by the Author in his rented cottage in South Florida, features music by environmental musician, Rusty Crutcher (Ocean Eclipse) and actual sounds from the same Ocean environment mentioned in the book, announces publisher CraniOcean Media.  Rusty Crutcher was one of the first musicians in this country to take music to the environment itself with his 1989 recording of Machu Picchu Impressions and Sacred Sites Series.

Touch the Ocean is the first book in the field of light touch therapy and craniosacral therapy to take the therapeutic process into the interaction with the environment itself as active participant in healing sessions.  Being in the ocean itself is a healing, says Author Nemec.

The award winning book, Touch the Ocean, by licensed massage therapist and celebrated craniosacral therapist James Nemec, narrates compelling stories of heart centered presence and ocean healing. “You touch the Ocean, and the Ocean touches you,” says Nemec in his ground breaking book.

This was no easy feat!  says the CraniOcean Media production team.  Already it sounds better than anything in the same genre by Mainstream publishers, as much as we like Mainstream folks!  Visit the website at http://craniocean.com/media

Can One Light Touch Change the World?

It just goes to show, massage therapists working together can accomplish anything!  The Audio Book (CD ROM) for Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions [ISBN 978-0-9792805-4-2] consists of 10 CDs and retails for $24.59, and the Mp3 download for Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions [ISBN 978-0-9792805-6-6] also retails for $24.59.  Both are available through New Leaf Distributing, everywhere online, and through better bookstores.

Audio Book for Touch the Ocean, Wow! it’s now

The Dolphin Knew, from, TOUCH THE OCEAN

Gotta share this news!

The Audio Book for Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions is now in manufacture, today! Much thanks to all who contributed to this long awaited event, including, Engineer and Compilation by JC Spradley, Garageband Editing by Alex Earley Productions, George Foster, Suzanne Catty, and Bison Disc. Also, much appreciation to the featured musician, Rusty Crutcher and selections his Ocean Eclipse.  And much, mucho, to the Ocean for audio selections for the location where the book takes place! This was no easy feat!  Already it sounds better than anything in the same genre by Mainstream publishers, as much as we like Mainstream folks!

More good news!

The second book of the CraniOcean Trilogy, Journeys Stories Our Bodies Can Tell, had just gone live on Kindle!  Much thanks to layout artist for the HTML, William P. Groetzinger.  Kindle is incredibly challenging to format in HTML for anyone but Bill Goetzinger came through like a champion!

It just goes to show, massage therapists working together can accomplish anything!

Touch the Ocean, Audio Book/Mp3, Releases Valentines!

The unabridged Audio Book for Touch the Ocean,  read by the Author in his rented cottage in South Florida, features music by environmental musician, Rusty Crutcher (Ocean Eclipse) and actual sounds from the same Ocean environment mentioned in the book.  Rusty Cructher was one of the first musicians in this country to take music to the environment itself with his 1989 recording of Machu Picchu Impressions.

Touch the Ocean is the first book in the field of light touch therapy and craniosacral therapy to take the therapeutic process into the interaction with the environment itself as active participant in healing sessions.  Being in the ocean itself is a healing, says Author Nemec.

The award winning book, Touch the Ocean, by licensed massage therapist and celebrated craniosacral therapist James Nemec, narrates compelling stories of heart centered presence and ocean healing. “You touch the Ocean, and the Ocean touches you,” says Nemec in his ground breaking book.

In the spirit of the written text, the Audio Book was recorded in the Author’s rented cottage in West Palm Beach on Garageband, with “all the ambient sounds of the Palm Beaches, dogs barking, airplanes flying overhead, rain storms, and ocean sounds. …”  but with a calibrated acoustic quality that rivals  mainstream audio book publications.

The listening is engaging.  Not only is it good storytelling, there’s perfectly timed humor within a very serious subject.  And he delivers on each of the characters! enthuses Engineer, Alex Earley.  And the Harvard Coop notes of Touch the Ocean, “What Nemec succeeds at conveying, according to surgeon and Ivy League diplomat, Roy Nuzzo, is that ‘the world shapes us.  We, collectively, shape the world,’”

A prismatic focal point of Touch the Ocean is the light-touch healing art of CranioSacral therapy, developed by Dr. John E. Upledger, now, as performed in the clinic environment of the Upledger Institute but also with dolphins and in the Ocean itself.  Craniosacral therapy is gaining attention for the relief and treatment of an array of conditions, from neck and lower back pain to migraines and scoliosis to infant seizures, chronic asthma, autism and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

The Audio Book in attractive DVD case [ 978-0-9792805-4-2]  $24.59 with cover design by George Foster,  and Mp3 download   [978-0-9792805-6-6] $24.59 is distributed by New Leaf Distributing and Baker and Taylor and also available on I-Tunes.  Visit the CraniOcean  Media press page for updates, http://www.craniocean.com/media.

New Audio Book/Mp3

donovan – atlantis – haiti – carribean faultline – tragedy

Somehow this song really speaks now.

Way down below the ocean –

Our condolences to all those in and around the beautiful, artistic, and holy land of Haiti.

With love and appreciation.

CraniOcean

Two Talks with Discussion on Two Saturdays, L.A.

JOURNEY BEYOND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE!

What is authentic touch?

Is Craniosacral Therapy for You?

Now in L.A.!

Craniosacral therapy Facilitator, James Nemec LMT, NCTMB, CST-D, author of TOUCH THE OCEAN, and  JOURNEYS: STORIES OUR BODIES CAN TELL, is now taking appointments in L.A. through January 27^th.  Contact the office of Dr. Jeff Benton for your personal appointment:

323 – 297 – 0566

Two talks and discussions on authentic touch and craniosacral integration at the Dr. Benton office on two Saturday afternoons, January 16^th and 23^rd, at 4:00 PM. No books will be available for signing. Cost is $40.00 for each 1 hr. event. Call now to Reserve – Seating is limited! 323 – 297 – 0566

6360 Wilshire Blvd., Ste, 210,

Los Angeles, 90048 (at Crescent Heights)

Craniosacral therapy works  WITH YOU to safely, non-surgically, unlock cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) passageways. Relaxes, soothes, rejuvenates those who are well. Few know it also relieves and treats Back Pain, Migraines, Scoliosis, TMJ, Asthma, Infant Seizure Disorders, PTSD, Depression. STRESS, and More!

Touch the Ocean

Contact James’s CraniOcean webpage,  http://craniocean.com for MORE!

soma yoga center, and touch the ocean, event!

Join us! Bring your questions. Help enlighten the populace, as we explore the edges of the deep center with the award winning,  Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions.

Post this to FaceBook.  Great vegan treats and organic refreshments too!

Where? Soma Center, Lake Worth, FL

When? December 19th, 2009

Time? 7:00 pm

Explore mind altering connections with dolphins, the ocean, and our mutually inter-dependent relationships with each other as equal beings.  We will also be opening the floor to the second book in the series, Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell.

Cool people!  (YOU!)

This is a local South Florida event!  Thank you.

Touch the Ocean – Environment 4

Another example also from the Autumn 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, by visionary poet, Mary Oliver:

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

© Mary Oliver

There are many examples of her poetry related to the environment as a participant in her work. Please visit this link for more of her poetry, Modern American Poetry, online. Mary Oliver, a very popular visionary poet in the American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, and Emily Dickinson.

Touch the Ocean – Environment 3

Another example from the Autumn, 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, Charles Bukowski’s “Bluebird,” from, THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS.

what does this have to do with the environment, or with blending?  is there an inner environment as well as an outer environment?

Touch the Ocean – Environment 2

This example of the art and lifestyle of Georgia Okeefe from the Autumn, 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, also offered as a contemplation.

what is a life lived on purpose?