The announcement was made today that the religious publishing team of Doubleday Broadway will be consolidating under the newly-termed Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, joining with WaterBrook Multnomah under president, Steve Cobb. The majority of the change is in reporting structure, and day-to-day business will continue as normal, as well as the distinctive visions and acquisition strategies of each individual line.
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Lauren Winner on alcohol in Christian books: "…the increasing willingness of Christian publishers to show casual imbibing may be another step in the direction of depicting, rather than sanitizing, ordinary American life." I love the way Lauren says this, distilling the distinction (so to speak). "Depicting rather than sanitizing." If art reflects life, isn’t including real depictions of ordinary American
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"You can possess all the ‘must haves’ publishers talk about—an uncommon topic, writing chops, proven interest in your subject, a ‘platform’—but none of it matters if what you’re saying is not what people want to hear." Ran across this nice reminder today from Linda Konner in the June 30th edition of PW: "No Room for ‘Edgy.’" Konner eventually gave up
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Sales conference at CBA all this week, that hallowed time of torch-passing that happens with the turn of the season. It always makes me ponder afresh the end of Ecclesiastes. But one thought had us talking around the tables last night–the fascinating strategies different-sized publishers employ. And today, looking through the various reports and news items that came through this
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Go ahead. Go google “Evangelical arts.” I’ll wait. … As one of the first acts of his new reign as AP religion editor, Eric Gorski has decided to prove that some Evangelicals DO care about quality art. The article mentions current EV arts heavy-hitters, Mako Fujimura, Dick Staub, Andy Crouch, and Craig Detweiler. How can you go wrong? Will you
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