Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Today, let’s sum up our take-aways from this week’s case studies. There’s no limit to the books we could have analyzed, but I chose phenomenal successes in hopes the clues …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Today, let’s sum up our take-aways from this week’s case studies. There’s no limit to the books we could have analyzed, but I chose phenomenal successes in hopes the clues …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Crazy Love by Francis Chan, is a recent New York Times nonfiction best-seller. Here is the overview taken from the website:
Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it? It’s …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Christian fiction owes the Left Behind Series a debt of gratitude. In the words of Mark Kuyper, president of the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association: “In many ways this series established …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Yesterday we analyzed a fiction title. Today let’s look at a nonfiction phenomenon, a self-help marriage book: The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman.
Vitals:
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
In the past weeks we have viewed the industry from the publisher’s, pre-production’s, and agent’s perspectives. The natural progression to complete the loop: the BOOKS. Is there any one of …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
The last stop on this week’s tour of Your Publishing House, Inc. is Production. This room is necessarily quite large, a suite actually, since it contains several rooms within for …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
A little farther down the hallway at Your Publishing House, Inc. is the marketing department. You may be introduced to the marketing manager assigned to your book project as soon …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
Today we’ll visit two of the rooms down the hallway at Your Publishing House, Inc.: the editorial and design departments.
The editor and acquisitions team are meeting with the designer …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
Today, let’s proceed to the hallway. Interesting thing about hallways: They both divide rooms and connect them. Will we see the traffic moving steadily in one direction? If not, is …
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Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
This week I’m going to take you on a virtual word tour inside the hallowed walls of Your Publishing House, Inc. What exactly happens between the time the manuscript enters …