What's a Book Studio?

According to our website, FlirtyGirl Productions is "an innovative book studio." But you may be asking yourself, "What exactly does that MEAN?"

A studio is a place where an artist, photographer, or other creative person works. Essentially, it's a place that fosters imaginative thought. And that's what we like to do—be imaginative, be experimental, be resourceful, be ingenious.

It all starts with book ideas. We generate A LOT of them in our studio. When one really catches our fancy, we work with an author to develop it into a full-blown proposal and outline. Meanwhile, we brainstorm until we've figured out the best way to make the characters and content jump off the page—creating associated websites, streaming videos, online character interaction, and other super-secret added features we're not prepared to share with you just yet.

We also work with authors who come to us with brilliant book ideas that would be perfect for our out-of-the-box approach. Our submissions review process is much like that of an agent or publisher, but once we accept a proposal we contribute our editorial expertise and work with the author to generate the right type of online content before presenting the book to publishers.

But our work doesn't end after the book is published. The publisher handles the major marketing and publicity efforts, but we help the author with grassroots online promotions such as hosting a virtual launch party, coordinating online giveaways, networking with YA book bloggers, and interacting with readers via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and so on.

Our job, essentially, is to make everyone's life easier. Everyone's, that is, except for ours.

But that's okay, because we love what we do.

BTW, we're in the process of compiling a frequently asked questions post, so please feel free to leave your burning ??s in the comments below.

(And yes, if you post a silly question, it will most likely get answered, so feel free to be creative.)