A full-service literary agency that focuses on books for the Christian market.
It’s early December, but I’ve noticed that while we’re locked and loaded on preparing for Christmas, the fitness industry is ramping up its advertising for the inevitable January obsession with getting in shape and kale. While I am a fitness …
Planting Seeds: Five Suggestions to Prepare Your Author Website for 2025Read More
If you are a writer actively pitching your novel or non-fiction, but you still dabble in children’s books, and you’re feeling the hankering to ramp up your YouTube channel, is it helpful or harmful to broadcast all your creative outlets …
Four Measures to Self-Audit Your Author Brand for ConsistencyRead More
While social media seems to be where everyone is gathering online, your author website is still important for your writing career. Social media is like the car you drive around in to invite people to join you on the journey. …
Four Things Agents Look for When Checking Out Your WebsiteRead More
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
What do publishers and agents mean when they say they are looking for books that approach the subject in a new way or books that are innovative? We already know that books that are a rehash of …
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Sitting in for Wendy who is traveling.
The writing world is no different.
Here are the tools I use to craft my writing.
For many years, I shared …
Blogger: Rachel Kent
When I like what I’m reading in a proposal and manuscript, the next step is to look up the author online. I’ll start with a Google search. On Google, I’m hoping to find out if the author …
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Your Platform and Marketing Section
I know I touched on this yesterday, but I’d like to take a more in-depth look at what it means to have a …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: 81º and sunny
Last week agent-extraordinaire, Janet Kobobel Grant, tweeted, “If you want anyone in publishing to take you seriously, you need to have a good-looking website that centers …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
For the tiny remainder of 2009, we’ve looked over our blog offerings from throughout the year and have chosen those that received the most responses. Those posts …
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Welcome to our blog carnival! Throughout the week I’ve been receiving links to blogs about everything related to book publishing and writing. Now I get to share these …
