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Thoughts on books, publicity, and the media from our Cave Henricks staff.

Author offers perspective to the PR process

We’ve decided to invite authors to blog on our site as we move ahead into a new decade. We didn’t have to look far for our first contributor as Dennis Welch here on our staff wrote his first book late last year. A candid memoir of his mother Patsy’s life, it is a book about […]

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Going Viral

Like everyone in the publishing business, we’re working hard to figure out the new landscape and find the opportunities that we know will come with the massive shift in the way we consume information. So, I was delighted to be invited to blog about our industry changes from the real pros in social media, Ben […]

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The Full Plate Diet becomes a bestseller

Our hats off to THE FULL PLATE DIET, publisher Ray Bard and authors, Dr. Stuart Seale, Dr. Teresa Sherard and Dr. Diana Fleming, who just made the New York Times bestseller list. BookPeople in Austin hosted the authors this week for an event where everyone learned how to drop pounds and get healthy without gimmicks, […]

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Giving Credit where it is Due

I learned much at the hands of my former boss, Lynn Goldberg, a legendary woman in publishing who was far more than a boss to me – she was part mother/part mentor/part friend. A key lesson she imparted during the decade I spent working for her was the gracious way to give credit where it […]

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800-CEO-READ 2009 Business Book Awards

Today 800-CEO-READ announced the winners of their 2009 Business Book Awards, which highlights its top business book of the year along with winners and nominees in a number of categories including Leadership, Current Interest and Finance & Economics. TOO BIG TO FAIL by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking) won Business Book of the Year and we’re […]

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Book success even sweeter in tough times

The publishing and media worlds have had a tough year. With magazines folding, newspapers dying or going digital and staff cuts plaguing nearly every industry, it feels there has been little to celebrate. But while we watch our industry undergoing what is clearly a game-changing shift pushed by technological and digital innovation, watching an old […]

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The Reshaped Face of Publishing

A “Shouts & Murmurs” piece in The New Yorker this week has me torn about an appropriate response to the recent upheavals in the publishing world. Have you read it? Does it make you want to laugh or cry? It’s hard not to laugh at Ellis Weiner‘s tongue-in-cheek portrayal of some poor “intern to replace […]

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Do What You Love

Gallup has long espoused the value of doing what you do best, every day, penning a sequence of bestsellers to help all of us identify our strengths and figure out whether we’re putting them to good use. Hand in hand with this school of thought is the idea that we should spend our precious time […]

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Celebrating Our Own

A couple of years ago, my friend and my colleague Dennis Welch began sending me email missives, chapters of a book he was writing based on a weekly conversation he had with his mother. Funny, heartbreaking, and impossible to put down, I found myself searching my inbox for the latest installment. When one was late, […]

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CHC authors on the morning shows

Two of our authors were on network morning TV in the past week, both talking about different aspects of our work and business lives. Greg Cootsona, former pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, penned his book, Say Yes to No, after a personal wake up call that managing his ministry and […]

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