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About Bayla

Bayla Publishing was initially created for the purpose of producing The Official Guide to Office Wellness. As a micropublisher, Bayla is dedicated to the proposition of passionate promotion, which is only possible through close attention to every facet of the publication process. From conception, to layout, to marketing, Bayla will carefully guide Wellness through the maze that is the book industry.

 

Because we believe in this book. Passionately.

 

Following successful production of Office Wellness, Bayla will be looking to publish other works.

 
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More About Wellness...

The author: William R. Vitanyi, Jr. aka Bill V, is the author of three books and a screenplay. He's also done a smidge of acting in independent films, and currently works during the day as a computer programmer at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Although his first book was a technological thriller, more recently he has taken on cubicle humor as a general theme. His paper mache' cubicle door will be installed as soon as the State provides the requisite forms.

Bill lives in northwestern Pennsylvania with his family and many pets. He is an Edinboro University alumnus, with a Bachelor's degree in Russian Language and additional training in computer programming and operations. He denies any knowledge of the intelligence community, though he is familiar with Trident submarines. His favorite singer is Ryan Star.

Currently 47 years old, he hopes to improve on this in the near future.

Wellness: The Genesis. Too much time watching exercise videos as part of an intensive weight loss program, combined with too much time watching the inside of a cubicle, combined with too much unused cranial space, and there you have it.

After requesting permission from the president of the university where he works, Bill sent an invitation to all university staff and students, informing them about the project and asking for vomunteer models. One hundred were sought, and one hundred stepped up. It took a few months, and a lot of running around, but finally all the photos were taken, all the releases signed, and the raw material for Wellness was securely in hand.

Bayla the Company. Publishing is a funny business. There is more on this on the writing page of this site, but suffice it to say that Bill was not satisfied with how mainstream publishers approach the task of getting a book into print. It simply takes too long, is not heavily supported from a marketing perspectiveespecially for a relatively unknown authorand takes too much creative control away from the author. Not to mention the profit drain as middlemen scarf up the lion's share of a book's revenue. Of course, they also take on all of the risk.

Pros and cons, no doubt.

Bill was willing to take on the risk and responsibility, and so Bayla was born. Bayla Publishing was formed for the specific purpose of publishing The Official Guide to Office Wellness. By forming a company and purchasing a block of ISBN numbers, Bill would retain full control over all aspects of Wellness. Succeed or fail, it would be the result of his own efforts and decisions. Of course, the first decision was to involve as many people as possible in the project.

Why Bayla ? In the early nineteen hundreds Bill's grandfather passed through Ellis Island, and was asked his name. He responded "Bela" (pronounced "Bayla") which the clerk said sounded like Bill, so his name would henceforth be William. It became tradition in Bill's family to name firstborn male children William. Perhaps it should have been Bela. Or Bayla.

That's where Bayla comes from. What's in a name, anyway?

 

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