JulieInk.com is the blog of Julie Trelstad, who finds too many neat things on the internet to keep it all a secret. On this blog, she’ll share her discoveries, dispense book publishing advice, and generally report about the behind-the-scenes building of her new venture, Booktiq.
When she’s not producing books, Julie speaks and writes about small business and the web tools that make it easier.
Before booktiq, Julie worked as an acquistions editor for several publishing companies, including Reader’s Digest, Wiley, Taunton Press, and Sterling Publishing. In a fit to embrace emerging publishing technologies and practices, Julie started Plain White Press, which publishes illustrated non-fiction books, journals, and boxed kits that help busy women simplify some aspects of their busy lives. Named a Make-Mine-a-Million micro winner in 2006, Plain White Press was acquired by Fox Chapel publishing in 2011.
A self-described web geek, mom-of-teenage-twins, and serial entrepreneur, Julie has been keeping journals of one kind or another since she was eight years old — secret diaries, travel-log, travel sketchbooks, short-lived baby books, work logs, and morning pages. As much as she loves all things digital, Julie is always on the lookout for lovely paper books. Julie is the webmaster of Journally.com, and the creator of Starling Recycled paper journals, the Lite’N Up! Diet Journal, and the Offlines Social Media Journals. She’s always looking for new ways to balance out all of her interests and responsibilities. She finds that writing it all down helps. Find them at Journally.com
