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What’s the Difference Between an Influencer and a Street Team Member?

December 16, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  15 Comments

By Janet Kobobel Grant

Authors, especially new authors, often struggle to figure out the difference between an influencer and a street team member. Let alone puzzle through the best way to ask either person to help promote your upcoming book.…

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Every Author’s Two Audiences

November 11, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  12 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Several times recently I found myself having the same conversation with various Books & Such clients, and I realized what often seems obvious to me  isn’t obvious to everyone: Every author has two audiences.

An Author’s

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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 2

September 23, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  29 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

In my most recent blog post, I explored the double-digit growth of digital audiobooks and what that could mean for publishing’s future. Today I want to make another publishing forecast: the use of the subscription …

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Publishing Forecast–Part 1

September 2, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  25 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

What is publishing’s next iteration? Every once in awhile I like to take a look to the future to see where publishing might be headed. As I “guess ahead,” I see several trends that I believe …

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Writing Obsessions

June 24, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  24 Comments

Janet Kobobel Grant

What stimulates you to write a story or to compose a manuscript about a certain topic?

Writing Hints

I find it instructive to listen to interviews with highly successful authors. They often are asked–and love to talk …

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What Does a Book Sales Rep Really Do?

March 28, 2018 //  by Janet Grant//  20 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Most publishers maintain a sales team (or hire a team other publishers are using as well), with each member responsible for calling on his or her accounts. “Calling on” can mean making phone calls or physically …

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Trends…and Counter-Trends

December 17, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

I saw an author at a writers conference who was walking around in a daze as she thought about all the demands on writers to successfully publish today–both self-pub and traditional pub.

Here’s what her mind …

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What Do Readers Want?

December 10, 2017 //  by Janet Grant//  50 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Recently I watched a TV interview with Ann Patchett and Daniel Pink on their favorite books of 2017. You can read the interview or watch it here.

I enjoyed the entire book-review approach to the …

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Handling Stress

May 26, 2017 //  by Rachel Kent//  30 Comments

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Last night I was reading with my daughter and she picked the book When Sophie Gets Angry–Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang. It’s a Caldecott Honor Book about a little girl, Sophie, whose sister takes her toy …

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