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ACRW=ACFW

So this past weekend I was at the American Christian Romance Writers Conference in Denver. It was sort of funny to be there among so many women who, I mean let’s face it, you’d never otherwise meet in normal circumstances. It was truly an experience to remember and I will for a long time, and not only because I was
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Think like a publisher!

So we’ve covered the essential difference between the CBA and ABA markets, that being money and the latter’s unencumbered love of. But what about the similarities? What are the universal principles that guide publishing as an industry? In the aptly titled Inside Religious Publishing, Les Stobbe, says Christian publishing philosophies can be particularly volatile, shrinking and expanding to fit market
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Publishing Houses: CBA vs. ABA

So after I was hired assistant editor, it was all downhill from there. Seriously, you don’t want to know what it’s like in that position trying to figure out which end is up and just trying not to mess up all the time. You mostly work on keeping a low profile and not being singled out for anything. And if
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Confessions of a publishing nobody

I’ve been asked to write about publishing from an insider’s perspective. I thought my blather was enough on this blog, but apparently, some people just aren’t satisfied with that, the ingrates. Suppose we take a few days to talk about the ins and outs of in-house publishing for CBA, since that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 4 years.
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The Heritage Fountain

“What happens when a new work is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.” A quote from “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” Eliot’s says art is an influencing force on the heritage from which it came. I like to think of it as a fountain representing the spring of life-giving water. Ever
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