This is Jason from Ibis Books!
And Jason is also now from Page & Stage
Happy Friday to you!
This is Jason Cannon with Ibis Books. I promise it is!
I mentioned last week that some big changes were coming, and this slick new newsletter format is one of them. It’s like there’s new-car-smell wafting off your screen, right?
I also mentioned last week how, over the past several months, inspired by many messages from many of you awesome readers, I’d been rethinking the mission and approach of both Ibis Books and this weekly newsletter.
And how all that rethinking and reflecting has led to the creation of this new offering, PAGE & STAGE.
Ibis Books update
Ibis Books now lives at IbisBooks.shop.
It’ll be getting its own facelift in the coming weeks, but it’s still open for business.
In fact, there are multiple titles headed your way, including a play by a Green Beret, a memoir by a Broadway theatre manager, and a memoir by an engineer who loves Meatloaf (the singer!) and worked on the design of the Navy’s first nuclear submarines. !!!
Page and Stage launch
PAGE & STAGE will have its own website—which I will share with you next week—and will focus on the art and craft of writing and performance.
There will be five distinct resources offered: this newsletter, a podcast (more on that below!), the Ibis bookshop, bootcamps/mini-courses, and story coaching.
These resources will be for storytellers of all stripes: authors, actors, directors, playwrights, memoirists, entrepreneurs/business leaders, public speakers—anyone who builds worlds with words.
But PAGE & STAGE is also for readers and audience members. Anyone who loves to visit worlds built with words.
So these five resources will not only be full of tips and tricks for practitioners, but also insights and secrets for those of you who want to peek behind the scenes and under the keyboards.
If you ever have requests or ideas for topics I should cover in this newsletter or guests I should interview on the podcast, just hit REPLY and send them my way.
Speaking of that podcast…
This week I did my first recording session with my first guest! After an initial “wait wait, oh crud the mic isn’t working” moment, the tech gremlins were banished and we had a wide-ranging and rollicking conversation.
Check it out. The debut episode of the PAGE & STAGE Podcast features none other than the world-renowned improv genius and storytelling guru WILL LUERA.
I’ve got more recording sessions lined up over the next couple weeks with more incredible guests, and the first few episodes will drop in mid-March! You’ll be able to listen wherever you prefer to get your podcasts.
And now that we’ve had the PAGE & STAGE walking tour, next week I’ll turn the newsletter more toward storytelling insights. The various updates will still be included, but let’s roll up our sleeves and dig in to art, creativity, narrative, and the power of story!
Thank you all again for your support and encouragement. To the degree any of this stuff matters, it’s because you share your attention with me.
All gratitude—
Jason “I wish I was cool enough to wear a scarf in Florida” Cannon