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Why Being Published is So Personal
This month is a big one for me, so much so that I am departing from my usual blog format of serving up what I hope is useful information on any and all things book-related. Instead, I’m writing from what I now fondly call my author chair, the place where I did a 180-degree career flip and wrote a book rather than promoted them. As with so many of life’s experiences, it’s been a journey.
This week in publishing…
In defiance of Friday the 13th gloom and doom, a roundup of some of the week’s most positive and surprising publishing news: Thriller/horror writer J.A. Konrath is trumpeting on his blog that he has earned $100,000 in three weeks selling his self-published THE LIST on Amazon. Having been turned down by editors at St. Martin’s, […]
PR and Digital Media take Center Stage at Author Pow Wow
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. […]
Creativity Boost for Publishing Community
Call it what you will — intellectual juice, a sense of community, or just plain old face time in our high tech, low touch world, but today, I got a hefty dose of it all at my favorite event of the year. The Author Pow Wow hosted by 800 CEO Read since 2005 kicked off […]
Relaunching the Blog
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 […]
BEA takes us into the future
Book Expo 2011 is now just a memory, a blur of long aisles, new books, the latest publishing news and three days of meeting live with those we do business with all year. In other words, our pleasure. New York greeted the booklovers who descended upon the city with sunny skies and gorgeous spring weather, […]
The Biggest Show of all for Book Lovers
That headline could easily be disputed – even among book lovers. But after twenty years of walking the floors, manning booths, attending panels and hitting the after parties with my publishing colleagues, I cop to still being ready to pack a bag and head to where the action is come the end of May. BookExpo […]
Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders: Gloria McDonough-Taub
Gloria McDonough-Taub is Editor of Blogs at CNBC.com and the author of the CNBC.com blog, Bullish On Books. She reviews the (numerous) books that come in to CNBC and works with the shows to decide which author has a good enough story to be featured on the website or on air. Gloria is at the […]
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