Blogger: Rachel Kent
I was planning to write on this topic anyway, but now with the news of Family Christian Stores going out of business it is even more relevant. I am very sad to see more bookstores go out …
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Books For Writers
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I’m a great believer in reading. Shocking, huh? I believe that you, as a writer, should read lots of books in the genre or category in which you are writing. If you write literary fiction, you should …
Books in Unusual Places: Marketing Outside of the Box
Blogger: Rachel Kent
When I was camping up in the Sierra Nevada mountains two weekends ago, I came across a little library outside of the camp host’s camper! I was surprised to see the book cart, but I think it’s …
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Print books are not on the way out!
Blogger: Rachel Kent
As a print book reader (who tried using a Kindle and didn’t like it) all of the talk about print books disappearing caused me pain! I love my books and my bookshelves and I’m not ready to …
Seven Years as an Agent
Blogger: Rachel Kent
October marks the 7th anniversary of when I became an agent with Books & Such! When I first started, I’d go to conferences, and people would remark on how young I looked. I don’t hear that much …
How have your reading habits changed?
Blogger: Rachel Kent
In the past few years, I’ve been drawn to books that I wouldn’t have been interested in when I was in my early-to-mid twenties. When I started as an agent with Books & Such, I was primarily …
9 Items from The Everything Store
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone tells the story of the rise of Amazon from a tiny upstart to the juggernaut it is today. I found it fascinating from the …
The Importance of White Space
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
A couple of weeks ago I got one of my favorite kinds of calls. It was an offer to let me go through the library of a young pastor who died in 1963. His widow was …
How do you foster a love of reading in a child?
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Many of you have seen this video by now, of a young boy who’s ability to recognize the letters of the alphabet allowed for help to find them when his father suffered an aneurism. The little boy …
Good News
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Okay, admit it. You’ve accused the younger generation of practically having their thumbs permanently affixed to gamepads, right? Or if not gaming, you expect them to be found texting or talking on their iPhones. Thumb dexterity is …