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Working with Your Editor

November 15, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

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 […]

What Makes a Great Business Book?

November 10, 2010 | Kaila Nickel

Fall is typically a hectic time for those of us in the publishing world. This year is certainly no exception. We’ve attended book festivals, gone through our acquisitions process for our spring 2011 books, finished our work on our summer books, begun work on our fall titles, and all while balancing personal and professional time […]

Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Hardy Green

October 25, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

After a long stint as book review editor at BusinessWeek, Hardy Green has left the magazine world. He’s now posting on his own site and recently completed his second book, The Company Town. We checked in with Hardy for his thoughts on the changing face of the media. His perspective, from all sides of the […]

Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders: Jim Levine

September 15, 2010 | Rusty Shelton

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 […]

How to Find an Agent: Give Them a Reason to Find You

September 13, 2010 | Rusty Shelton

In fact, some would tell you that’s the easy part. The hard part of the journey happened months and even years before their book hit shelves as they scoured the literary landscape for an agent to represent their then unpublished work. To appreciate the drive most unpublished authors feel to find an agent, one must […]

Brand expert, blogger and author John Moore offers up Tough Love in his unconventional new book

July 9, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

I admire people who have strong convictions and the courage to follow them, BUT I am utterly terrified to read books by people with these convictions whom I happen to personally know. My fear, of course, is that I won’t like the book and will be asked in some stunningly awkward situation what I thought.

So it was with some trepidation that I picked up the just-released, TOUGH LOVE: Scripting the Drive, Drama and Decline of Galaxy Coffee by John Moore. Moore is a veteran of the marketing departments of both Starbucks and Whole Foods, a well-known blogger and the author of an earlier book about Starbucks, Tribal Knowledge. He is also a friend of mine, one who often departs from the beaten path and who chose to release his new book in a most unconventional fashion.

The Full Plate Diet becomes a bestseller

January 15, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

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, […]

Celebrating Our Own

August 11, 2009 | Barbara Henricks

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, […]

Windy City Hosts Writers

December 7, 2007 | Barbara Henricks

I rarely need reminders about why I love what I do. Since the day I was four, learning to read perched on my father’s lap, his patient fingers running under the headlines of The Chicago Tribune, I was hooked. The day I could read those headlines to him, we headed down the block for my […]

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