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Bookshop.org: An Online Alternative to Amazon

September 8, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  7 Comments

Bookshop.org’s founder and CEO, Andy Hunter, could be viewed as prescient. The bookstore site launched in January 2020, just before COVID forced physical stores to lock their doors. Before Amazon downgraded the priority of shipping books and upped the priority …

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A Social Media Platform that REALLY Sells Books: TikTok

July 28, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  13 Comments

I need to start out by apologizing. I know writers are weary of being told to build their platforms, to promote their books on social media, to, well, work magic at something most don’t particularly enjoy. I’m one of those …

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How Readers Discover Books

March 3, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

One of the biggest challenges for an author, a publisher AND readers consists of the increasing difficulty of matching a wannabe reader with the type of book he or she is looking to buy. A new survey recently was conducted …

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Introducing a New Literary Agent

January 6, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

With the entrance of 2021, Books & Such is adding a gem of a new literary agent to our roster, Mary DeMuth. Mary has been a part of the Christian publishing industry for decades, having written 40 books, both fiction …

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Literary Agent Barb Roose

Introducing New Agent Barb Roose

August 30, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  49 Comments

Today I have the privilege of introducing our blog readers to a new Books & Such agent, Barb Roose. Barb has been a part of our agency for seven years as a client of Rachelle Gardner. All we agents have …

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I Only Cheated a Little

August 19, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

I recently read in the daily online newsletter Publishers Lunch about a cavalier cheat that landed UK thriller writer Mark Dawson on the Sunday Times bestseller list. The author not only admitted he bought hundreds of copies of his book …

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What’s Next?

April 19, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  12 Comments

As our governing officials turn their attention to how to reopen our nation after the coronavirus recedes, this is a good time for writers to ask themselves, What’s next? What kind of books will consumers want to buy?

A Snapshot

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Coronavirus and Publishing Update

April 1, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

In conversations with our agency’s clients these past couple of weeks, each one has asked me how the coronavirus affects publishing. We, of course, don’t know the long-term affect.  But I thought I’d update you all on what’s happened so …

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Publishing Forecast Part 4

October 24, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  16 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

We’ve reached the final installment in my publishing forecast blogs. As a reminder, we’ve explored the following book delivery methods:

The double-figure growth of audiobooks.

The potential of using the subscription model with books.

The new …

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Publishing Forecast–Part 3

October 7, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  28 Comments

. Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

In two recent posts, I looked at a couple of potential publishing trends. You can read the first one, regarding the rise in audiobooks, here. The second publishing forecast post, regarding book subscriptions, can …

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