The world is looking for solutions. At Schiel & Denver Book Publishers, one of the reasons we invest so deeply in sustainable publishing methods, and cherish our independent authors and talented writers so much, is that you have taken the time to make the changes needed to achieve a more shared, secure and sustainable future through your work. Whether you’re a children’s author giving a child that first love of learning to read, a poet, thriller writer or Christian author; we pledge our support to your continued literary brilliance in the fantastic independent books that you pen, and on your admirable personal commitment to your writing.

The fact is that world needs more writers. The literary output of the U.S. can never be too prolific. Sustainable development is a global imperative: over one billion people lack access to food, electricity and drinking water; a majority of our ecosystems are in decline; and there is an enormous deficit in decent jobs, especially for youth globally. Climate change will only compound these challenges – and threatens progress, peace and stability in societies and global markets – including books and publishing.

The book publishing industry is changing beyond all recognition, and for the independent author, getting your book into the hands of reachers in a timely fashion with expert speed to market, has become an increasingly dominant critical factor – where once publishers and authors could rely on long-tail sales and word of mouth. Schiel & Denver Book Publishers is therefore committed to professional book distribution into all markets, on behalf of our authors, and we are pleased to be opening up new channels in Australasia, Asia, China, Africa and Brazil, (outside our main infrastructure in North America and Europe) as a means to set our authors apart in the market with greater numbers of books printed, more sales and more royalties generated per ISBN title.

In a time when reaching agreement on critical issues is proving difficult and divisive — whether at home domestically in America or on the international platform — Schiel & Denver‘s comprehensive book publishing strategies will continue to give independent authors a voice, with dedicated marketing to the retail buying units of stores like Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Books-A-Million, to ensure your voice is heard.

Our corporate sustainability is charging ahead as a collaborative and innovative space for action based on the risks and opportunities at hand. After more than a decade of building up principles and partnerships, we stand on the brink of unleashing global business action as a main-stream, independent book publisher championing author’s intellectual output on a massive scale.

Schiel & Denver only succeeds when our authors thrive with successful book sales derived from worldwide market access and expert distribution to major bookstores. Making this happen is our enduring commitment: more engagement, more innovation, more collaboration.

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As Microsoft demonstrates from their development of publishing tool software, the role of the advertising executive in modern book publishing practice, has never been so ubiquitous and important. Executives of any book publishers organization should take every convenient opportunity of speaking in public, provided they are good performers. The reading of papers at conferences, speaking on radio or television, lecturing to rotary clubs or other societies are all opportunities to secure contacts which may prove useful. With an organization there is much to be gained by regular conferences and discussions at different levels.

This is particularly valuable in the case of an organization with branches spread throughout the country. Everyone has something to contribute to the common pool in the book publishing process. In conclusion, the media of communication are not the most important part of public relations activity but they occupy a vital area in any forward-thinking organization since they provide the link between an organization and the different groups and spheres of interest. There are signs of radical changes in methods of communication with the rapid growth of the use of computers, the automation of office techniques, satellite communication, etc, but it is difficult to forecast how soon these tendencies will make a real difference to our present means of communication.

The public relations adviser today, whether as a staff member of the organization or as outside counsel on public relations to management, has a new top function to fulfill. In this rapidly changing world, the obligations of company management are no longer limited to increasing sales and profits by winning friends and influencing people, it must serve the society of which it is a part in many different ways, in order to survive. The business organization, today has new responsibilities imposed on it by the society. It must fulfill its obligations as a good citizen of the community in which it functions. It must have socially sound living and training practices. This is key to effective book marketing from book distribution. It must be aware of and help to maintain the environment where it functions. It must help to improve the social conditions of the public on which it depends. It must participate in all efforts to improve the broad society. Successfully to fulfill the new demands, pose the challenges of the eighties to Public Relations

Contact with the Press may be either on personal basis, by written communication, or at a press conference. Personal contact is undoubtedly the most effective way of promoting close understanding with members of the Press, but with such a large area of interest it is obviously not possible to have personal contact with the Press all the time. Press releases are therefore an important part of press relations, and the releases which are merely written news items may be sent out to a very wide, or, on occasion, to a restricted list of journalists and publications; particularly of note in the poetry book publishers arena.

Some companies will wish to have a constant contact with the various sections of the Press and will issue two or three stories a week as well as extra news items for particular journals. This level of activity may be appropriate for some large companies but many companies will not need to be quite so active in keeping in touch with the Press. It is very desirable that in every organization there should be a press officer whose primary function is to help forge a durable link between the company and the Press, and a separate department for U.S. Copyright Registration.

In a small company the press officer may also be the public relations officer; in a large organization, he may be the head of a sizable press office. Either way, he must seek to understand the needs of the different sections of the Press and be prepared to make a sustained effort to help the Press in its work. It is only in this way that he can serve his own company to the best possible advantage. A press conference should be held when there is an announcement of some importance to be made when questions are likely to be helpful to members of the Press in writing their stories. It may also be justified when there is something to show like a model of a new hotel complex or a plan of a new motorway. A press conference may also be very useful for giving background information “off the record” about some new development of significance. The Press will respect the request for keeping some of the news “off the record” provided it is made clear which part of the conference is in confidence.

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With U.S. President Obama today preparing to arrive in New York ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, amid criticism from Mitt Romney’s campaign on foreign policy, professional book publishing research conducted by Schiel & Denver Book Publishers reveal that never before in our nation’s history are so many independent writers (without waiting for acceptance letters from traditional book publishers) publishing their thoughts on U.S. foreign policy, the intellectual output of the United States is growing as new evidence suggests from the Library of Congress‘s record database.

The challenge to understand the reasons why this is happening is more complex. It is not easy to preserve and keep a Republic once it begins to fall away. The heart of the republic is the voice of the people and the voice of the people is expressed through its mandated representation. It’s necessary at this point to consider a definition of Common Law.

The heart of Common Law is substance or Fact; the heart of Equity which came out of the Common Laws, is based in theories of liability and require some kind of damages – usually money. Common Law in practice is:

“The impartial distribution of justice, or the doing that to another which the laws of God and man, and of reason, give him the right to claim.”

Equity court corrects the operation of the literal text of the Law, and supplies its defects, by reasonable construction, and by rules of proceeding and deciding what is not admissible in a court of law. The first Judicial Acts established a judicial system with the sole purpose of upholding our Constitution and basing decisions of the Common Laws which decided right from wrong.

Your Congress represents elected officials representative of a part of a whole. They are not the whole, nor can they represent the nation without consent from the majority of the other parts which form that whole. The whole is the nation; even without the surge in book publishing company interest, however, the voice of the nation is the people collectively expressing themselves through individual representatives. A nation is not the body, the figure of which is to be represented by the human body; but is like a body contained within a circle, having a common center, in which every radius meets; and that center is formed by representation.

An issue is a point at which you must go to trial. There are two kinds of issues: 1) in law and 2) in fact. An issue in law arises when the point in issue is a question of law. An issue in fact is when the point in issue is a question of fact.

A fundamental to the Common Laws are those which are orally handed down to us, introduced into our Constitution as Rights of Man and recorded as the Bill of Rights. Any law abrogating such law is repugnant. This, then, is a fundamental right.

“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void and no man has to obey them.”

We believe therefore that the U.S. public has been inspired to write as a consequence of the expression of our democracy and statutory law. It is the written law, which later became codified and called the Codes. Statutory Law originated in the unwritten Common Laws, but did not have their binding force in the principles of justice, nor of long use, nor the consent of the people or nation. Statutory Law has its binding force in the acts of legislative branch: the Congress.

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Our Constitution was finished in September of 1787. But it had to be ratified by the individual states through popular conventions. The people of the states, rather than the state governments, had to approve the new document. Supporters of the Constitution had to appeal directly to the American people. It was not easy as the Colonists were reluctant to give more power to a central government controlled by an established political elite.

The Revolution promised power is in the local community and the hands of the common folk. Now the writers of the Constitution wanted to change all that. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay used the widespread and widely read newspapers of the day to distribute a series of short essays known as the Federalist Papers to influence America to accept and ratify a Constitution.

The essays covered a broad range of topics, including presidential authority, taxation and representation, and the division of power between the national and state governments.In the end, the newspaper plan worked. The Liberty Bell rang so long, it finally cracked. Americans were persuaded to support the Constitution, but the Liberty Bell could not ring in the Bill of Rights, which guaranteed the sought after freedom and individual liberty for all.

The Federalist Papers are now considered the first – and most important internationally – discussions of federal government.

The Federalist Papers serve as a model of political reasoning, and so can readily be ascribed to the reason the Colonists were influenced and prepared to ratify a Constitution for the United States of America.

No other set of essays created such an international clamor for independence and a new kind of power in that eighteenth century. No man could believe or envision that Power actually emanates from the bottom up. Power is by the will of the people and is granted by Providence. That is what happened. The Natural law then, would soon be an Organic law in a written Constitution of the United States to protect the rights of all men created equal.

The sentiment swept the nation then and such is the sentiment which was later so historically and strongly expressed by President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

We are again at that same crossroad where sovereignty and liberty intersect. The basis for our Constitution is inherent in its Federalist Papers. But who knows of them? Our Constitution, after months of work, finished in September 1787 and is a document that cannot by any standard be ratified by the individual state unless their populations wants them to do so.

The Constitution FOR the United States of America is ordained and established in its Preamble by the People OF the United States.

Its Federalist Papers (number 39) established two things:

• A country to be known as the United States of America (U.S.A.).
• A national government for that country to be known as the United States (US).

All American citizens are Sovereign citizens OF the United States of America – the Country. They live under the Common Laws of the country (Nation) known as the United States of America (U.S.A.)

The United States, as such, is only a national government (US) representative of the union of all states, known as these United States (U.S.A.); and is not to be confused with the nation (country) known as the United States of America.
The only sovereignty delegated to the national government (US) is that of foreign commerce and treaties.

It is this area where the States granted international powers to the federal government, albeit with the checks and balances accorded the separation of powers among the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial departments.

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It’s not a commonly asked question – just how many times do independent and self-published authors cite the American Constitution in their work; there are no reliable figures or clear guidelines on how to quote from the Constitution to be both legally accurate and grammatically correct. In this new series of posts, Schiel & Denver Book Publishers and Christian Book Publishers will examine the issues and over writing tips and advice. We start with an overview of that oft-cited, Boston Tea Party literature.

The Tea Party of 1773 wasn’t just the dumping of tea in Boston Harbor. It was the signal to the world that man was sovereign, had natural rights protected by laws in common, and that those rights were foremost amongst all nations. The local, Boston issue of taxation without representation only heightened the inalienable, organic rights of man.The chronology leading to the Tea Party of 1773 did not just happen with a bunch of rogues deciding to rebel against the English oppressors in a spur of the moment. There were many abuses of power leading to the Boston Tea Party; however, it is most important to historically note that it was not the Americans who signaled the first rebellion. It was Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa Indians. And Benjamin Franklin, in 1754 then published the “Join or Die” cartoon.

Although the rough picture of a snake separated into eight pieces marked with the initials of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, was first used in an attempt to unite the colonies as early as 1754 as the Albany Plan of Union, it was premature and not supported by the Colonists until revived by Pontiac’s attack upon the British in May, l763, and made a standard by the Tea Party patriots two years later when the British passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act, thereby allowing British soldiers to be quartered throughout the colonies.

Alarmed, the Colonists prepared to unite as they struggled to peacefully remain a colony of English rule. It simply did not work. On May 10, l773, England passed the Stamp Act claiming sovereignty over America, and resulting in Patrick Henry’s famous resolutions: the fifth summed it all.

“Resolved, therefore, that the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes upon the inhabitants of this Colony.”

It was now clear: every attempt to vest such power in any…persons…other than the General Assembly would destroy British as well as American freedom. No taxation without representation. America would have to assert its exclusive rights.Suddenly, with this speech, Patrick Henry became a spokesman for the common people, and the two parties: Patriots, or Whigs; and Loyalists – those who remained loyal to England – also called ‘Tories”, were born.

Henry’s words became the general outcry for the Tea Party and was the beginning of the revolutionary movement in the American colonies.

The Patriots were the backbone of the Republic. The Boston Tea Party formulated between 1773 and 1776. Our country is that Nation uniting all of the colonies into one nation: the United States of America embracing a Republican form of government wherein man, the citizen, was to become the ultimate law of the land possessing original ordained rights.The Boston Tea Party was known as the “Destruction of the Tea”; but when the Patriots, as Mohawk Indians marched into town, with axes and tomahawks on their shoulders, a fifer playing by their sides, within a few days, a Boston street ballad called: “The Rallying of the Tea Party” not only identified the two leaders—Warren and Revere—by name, but gave the Tea Party its origin and history in protecting common rights.

It is no wonder, then, that this is the hallmark of liberty and freedom for every man as foreseen and upheld by our forefathers when creating the ninth and tenth Amendments to our Constitution.

“The enumeration In the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

The people, again, were the ultimate beneficiary of all rights and powers within a Republican form of government. They were protecting their voice and guarding the limited powers to be relinquished to a federal government after granting it federal authority to govern, and to become a nation subservient to the desires and wishes of the sovereign states, ultimately, represented by the people as: sovereign man.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, or prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The Tea Party of yore is very much alive today. All over America the strong desires and morals which our founding fathers clearly laid down in 1776 return for all mankind to re-assert and claim once more.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that amount these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

The expression reverberated in the hearts and minds of all men then, and needs to be restored today. Its effect, as expressed by the concluding paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, is as much alive in meaning and intent for all mankind as when expressed in 1776. The Spirit of ’76, which was so near exhaustion at Valley Forge, was kindled by such resolve.

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved, and that as Free and Independent States they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things, which Independent States may of right do — and for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

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