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Best-Sellers: What Puts a Book on the List?

October 11, 2011 //  by Michelle Ule//  6 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: Main office, Santa Rosa, CA

Everyone knows the best-selling book of all time is the Bible. And why not? Versions of the Hebrew Scriptures were first written in velum circa 200 B.C. If your book has …

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Breaking the Rules

August 12, 2010 //  by Rachel Kent//  11 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers’ Conference, Philadelphia, PA

 

When a writer creates a book that’s outside the boundaries established for a genre, the book can lose its place in the market. But this can be a

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Bookstore Market Research: Historical Romance

March 16, 2010 //  by Rachel Kent//  12 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Barnes & Noble, Santa Rosa, Calif.

While I was in the bookstore, I focused my research on historical romance. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we’ll start with the pictures of what I saw …

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Best of the Blog 2009: You Should Read This! Word-of-Mouth and Reading

December 10, 2009 //  by Rachel Kent//  22 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

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

A recommendation from a trusted individual goes a long way in influencing a person to read a book. Why do you think publishers are always asking for endorsements …

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The Long and the Short of It

April 29, 2009 //  by Etta Wilson//  Leave a Comment

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville

Weather: Hot and windy

How many words should a title have? Well, that depends on a lot of things, but subtitles often carry the freight of conveying the content while the …

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To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish

March 3, 2009 //  by Janet Grant//  5 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

As a writer surveys the landscape of traditional publishing vs self-publishing, which is the best choice? That depends…Let’s take a look today at what self-publishing has to …

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Personal Book Selection

February 24, 2009 //  by Etta Wilson//  Leave a Comment

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Flying cross country

Weather: Breezy

We may be fairly agreed on what constitutes appropriate reading for children of various age levels, but the whole business of what we adults find offensive is another matter. It probably …

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