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Brick and mortar bookstores report good quarter. Wait, what?
“Retail watcher Placed Insights found brick-and-mortar booksellers saw a 27% increase in shopper traffic in the first three months of 2013 when compared to the same period in 2012.”
(via Brick and mortar bookstores report good quarter. Wait, what? - latimes.com)
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How Authors Should Use Tumblr:
A Five-step Guide by Tumblr’s Rachel Fershleiser (from GalleyCat’s Jason Boog: “What Writers Need To Know About Tumblr”)6. Make me fancy gifs so I’ll love you forever!
HOW TO TUMBLR
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Some writers will choose to fill the agent position themselves, instead of hiring from outside the firm, so to speak, but savvy writers will have noted that the chances of landing a great publishing contract goes up if they hire an expert, a sales specialist, to handle the part of the transaction.
Maureen McGowan, author of Deviants (Amazon Children’s Publishing, October 2012)
The Agent Search – Another Perspective
Posted on January 8, 2013 with 3 notes
Source: chicklitwriters.com
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@01FirstSecond’s Gina Gagliano gives a peek behind the curtains of the book acquisitions process.
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Posted on May 29, 2012 via YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK with 2,060 notes
Source: myjetpack
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A simple, maddening flowchart about how books are born.
(via how a book is born (because you kids love the infographics) | Weldon Owen)
Posted on May 16, 2012 with 1 note
Source: weldonowen.com
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When it comes to choosing excerpts, as in life, choose sex over death.
Publicist Lauren Cerand, on readingsPosted on April 10, 2012 with 3 notes
Source: The Awl
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E-book–E stands for everyone, as in everyone now will think they can write a book…Graphic novel–a comic book that went to college…Rejection–a necessary evil, unless it involves my manuscript, then it is a totally unnecessary wrong.
Posted on June 22, 2011 with 1 note
Source: armchairshotgun.wordpress.com
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WImpy Kid 6 announced: “Cabin Fever” gets 6 million first printing | The Beat
Holy cow, that’s huge. Well played, Abrams!



