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Platform–A Snarky Commentary

June 12, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  28 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

Okay, confession time: Here at Books & Such I’m known as the platform denier. The skeptic. Card-carrying member of the Book Marketing Flat Earth Society. Yes, I know that an author’s platform can be a powerful thing, …

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Moral Responsibility and Writers

June 7, 2015 //  by Janet Grant//  50 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Last week in the comments to my blog post on social media as the new locale for public shaming, Carrie Padgett mentioned that a lively online discussion was taking place elsewhere about whether authors have …

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Best-Sellers: Is It the Author or the Subject?

October 13, 2011 //  by Michelle Ule//  9 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: Santa Rosa, California, home office

As I write, the number one New York Times best-seller in trade paperback books is Heaven is for Real,by Todd Burpo, who collaborated with someone I know: Lynn Vincent. It’s …

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Five Elements That Make a Book a Success

June 7, 2011 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

What makes a book a success? Today I’d like to examine with you a book that, I believe, took everyone by surprise at its success. A Top …

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