Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend!
A fun video from Igniter Media for you.
News You Can Use – Nov. 20, 2012
Family Christian Stores in a Buyout - The largest Christian bookstore chain in the country will have new owners. They have 280 stores in 36 states. The chain's management in partnership with some investors has acquired the chain from its previous private equity owners.
Tyndale House Publishers Wins Their Courthouse Battle - Great news! I previously posted regarding the potential that an …
Fun Fridays – Nov. 16, 2012
It is likely you have seen the various parodies of the infamous scene of Hitler in a bunker in a rage. Because the clip is in German many people have had fun putting in their own English subtitles.
Today's Fun Friday is the same scene, but this time Hitler is a frustrated author in a rage over the pending merger of Random House and Penguin.
The last subtitle is perfect.
News You Can Use – Nov. 13, 2012
HarperCollins Closes Two Warehouses - in Scranton, PA and Nashville, TN. In case you are wondering this includes the Thomas Nelson Publishers warehouse, which if you ever visited, is a massive facility. HarperCollins already has closed the Zondervan warehouse in Grand Rapids. This is one of the consolidation moves where the parent company makes money by reducing duplicate efforts. It does not mean …
The C.S. Lewis Retreat 2012
by Steve Laube
C.S. Lewis wrote "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” And later he wrote "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” (from The World's Last Night: And Other Essays).
I just returned from a weekend teaching at the C.S. Lewis Foundation Retreat near Houston. It is a marvelous time of spiritual and intellectual …
News You Can Use – Nov. 6, 2012
Fund Raiser to Help with Relief - Bid on a 50-page critique of your novel by a published novelist between Nov. 9 and Nov. 16. Participating blogger authors include Susan Meissner, Ginny Yttrup, Donita K. Paul, Gayle Roper, Kristen Heitzmann, Hannah Alexander, Rachel Hauck and more! Money from the highest bidder of the week for each author will go to Samaritan's Purse to help the victims of …
News You Can Use – October 30, 2012
Random House Merges with Penguin Putnam - To be called Penguin Random House. Bertelsmann (the parent company of Random House) will own 53%, and Pearson (the parent company of Penguin) 47%. This is major news if it goes through to create the Big Five (no longer the Big Six). It will have little impact on the Christian market since Penguin was highly selective in their Christian book acquisitions …
Fun Fridays – October 26, 2012
A client recently sent this exchange with his son:
My 6-year-old, Nathan, asked me today how it works that people pay me to write a book.
Me: "Well, actually I have an agent that helps me."
Nathan (shocked): "A secret agent?! Did he ever shoot somebody?!"
Me: "Not yet."
Thanks for the laugh Nathan! (and to his father Michael Svigel author of RetroChristianity.)