Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While we’re looking at the state of the publishing industry, I’ve been encouraged by one of my clients to rant about e-books. When a client encourages an …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While we’re looking at the state of the publishing industry, I’ve been encouraged by one of my clients to rant about e-books. When a client encourages an …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
In my post yesterday, we looked at sales in 2010. Today and tomorrow, we’ll take a peek at how 2011 is shaping up.
Last week Harlequin released …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
New financial/sales reports are just coming in for publishing for 2010 and the first half of 2011. Now, for those of you who are yawning, I promise …
State of Publishing: E-book Sales by Category and GenreRead More
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Have you ever received a rejection for one of your projects? I bet that, if you’ve been submitting your project for any longer than two months, you have …
Assumptions of an Unpublished Writer: It’s Not PersonalRead More
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Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This week I’m going to share some truths of the industry sparked by recent emails we have received here at Books & Such.
The first email went something …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: From ICRS, Atlanta
This is my week to blog but it’s also my busiest week of the whole year– The International Christian Retail Show. It’s the primary book trade show for the Christian book industry. I …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Winging my way to Atlanta for the International Christian Retailers Show
Agents seldom kill careers in blatant ways, with witnesses watching while the deed is committed before their very eyes. Writing deaths usually are slow …
How an Agent Can Kill Your Career: Death by a Thousand CutsRead More
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The concept is straightforward: If your agent isn’t working for you, then your agent is killing your career in the saddest way possible, through neglect.
An agent …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Unfortunately, the list of involuntary manslaughter murders that agents commit on clients’ careers goes on and on. Continuing from my previous post, I would also add:
How an Agent Can Kill Your Career: Involuntary Manslaughter, Part 2Read More
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Home for the Fourth
While we agents like to think of ourselves as career-makers, unfortunately, we can also be career-killers. I’ll explore that concept this week; I hope the postswill alert you to ways that …
How an Agent Can Kill Your Career: Involuntary Manslaughter, Part 1Read More