There is rarely an author who comes through our door who doesn’t have a wish list of media outlets where they would love to see their ideas covered. And while it is our job to get those dream hits, the truth is that the journey toward generating interest has radically changed (like everything else in […]
Naming something is rarely easy and getting it just right can feel close to impossible. Google’s ubiquitous search engine was called BackRub during its developmental phase, 7-Eleven convenience stores were once U-Tote-Ms and those Puma sneakers you tie on for your run were once called Rudas, after the firm’s founder. Somehow, none of those early […]
Day two at the Author Pow Wow in Austin brought our own Barbara Henricks and Rusty Shelton to the fore on the topic of getting books out into the world via publicity, traditional and digital. Authors’ ears were perked as they soaked up valuable up-to-the-moment know how on this new and rapidly shifting PR landscape. […]
Biggest Change in Books? The Way they Come to Market. In the not so distant past, most of the books you bought either on the shelf of a local bookstore (although these are fast diminishing with the death of Borders this year) or with a click on Amazon, made a fairly similar path to publication. […]
As we’ve re-launched our website to better reflect our growing company, it seemed the perfect occasion to re-launch our blog as well. In the past, we’ve suffered the busy blogger’s syndrome which puts this task too far down on the daily list. Our plan moving ahead is to blog several times a week, offering up […]
A few years ago I was fortunate enough to hear Larry Kirshbaum, formerly the Publisher of Warner Books and now an agent, discuss the process of publishing. The entire crowd of authors in attendance noticeably moved forward in their chairs when he boldly urged everyone to “become the CEO of your own book.” His reasoning […]
The first installment of our new weekly “Five Quick Questions” series is an interview that Cave Henricks Communications President Barbara Henricks conducted with James Levine, Principal and Founder of Levine Greenberg Agency: The publishing industry is the midst of massive change. As the physical book gives way to a virtual entity that can be read […]