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Baby Boomer Lit…A New Genre for CBA?

Mary Keeley

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…

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State of the Digital World 2013

Janet Grant

 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…

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Mini Library Boxes

Rachel Kent

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…

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Face-to-Face

Wendy Lawton

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…

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Mergers and Buyouts and Takeovers, Oh My!

Wendy Lawton

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…

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News for Nonfiction Writers and Novelists from the Editors

Mary Keeley

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…

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Good News

Wendy Lawton

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…

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What’s New in the Publishing Industry

Janet Grant

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…

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Discoverability: A Book’s Greatest Challenge

Janet Grant

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…

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Old-Style Reader vs. New-Style

Janet Grant

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…

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