Blogger: Mary Keeley
A client forwarded a link to a guest blog that’s been circulating, titled “Is Baby Boomer Lit the Next Hot Genre?” by Claude Nougat. You can view it here. She lays the groundwork by summarizing how this audience…
Read More...By Mary Keeley on Mar 27, 2013 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Publishers, Publishing News, Reading | 67 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Digital Book World, which takes place in New York City every January, becomes a more significant bellwether for publishing trends every year. I’ve been collecting insights from this year’s event to help us stay on top of…
Read More...By Janet Grant on Feb 4, 2013 in Blog, Marketing & Publicity, Publishing News, Social Networking | 71 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
I read an article yesterday about a man who started a little personal lending library from a large mailbox outside of his house and the idea has caught on all over…
Read More...By Rachel Kent on Dec 25, 2012 in Publishers, Publishing News | 23 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I just arrived home from a whirlwind tour of publishing houses in Nashville. Janet Kobobel Grant and I had six meetings in two days. After that I had the privilege of spending time with a group of veteran…
Read More...By Wendy Lawton on Nov 6, 2012 in Blog, Business of writing, Publishers, Publishing News, Writing Life | 39 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Yesterday brought the surprise of the Penguin-Random House merger. If approved Penguin Random House will be the world’s largest book publisher. The announcement caused a groundswell of author angst that very nearly paralleled the anxiety over the Super…
Read More...By Wendy Lawton on Oct 30, 2012 in Blog, Business of writing, Publishers, Publishing News | 24 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Lately I’ve been thinking about special challenges nonfiction authors face. Since so many novelists are away at the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference (ACFW), today is a good time to focus on nonfiction. But stick with me, all…
Read More...By Mary Keeley on Sep 21, 2012 in Authors, Blog, Publishing News | 51 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Okay, admit it. You’ve accused the younger generation of practically having their thumbs permanently affixed to gamepads, right? Or if not gaming, you expect them to be found texting or talking on their iPhones. Thumb dexterity is at…
Read More...By Wendy Lawton on Sep 18, 2012 in Blog, Business of writing, Publishing News, Reading | 55 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Wendy Lawton, Mary Keeley and I returned last week from ICRS (the International Christian Retailers Show) where we met with editors and publishers to talk about what’s hot and what’s not in the publishing industry.
We don’t spend…
Read More...By Janet Grant on Jul 23, 2012 in Blog, Publishing News | 53 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Numbers that show us important publishing trends were released last week. One of the takeaways from these numbers is the biggest problem every book has today: discoverability. Here are a few figures that show why this is…
Read More...By Janet Grant on Jun 11, 2012 in Blog, Bookstores, Marketing & Publicity, Publishers, Publishing News | 50 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Part 3 of 3: The Brave New Publishing World
If I’m correct when I posited over the last two days that there’s a new kind of agent and a new kind of publisher in town, what about the…
Read More...By Janet Grant on Mar 13, 2012 in Blog, Publishing News, Reading | 37 Comments
