Blogger: Rachel Kent
I have a pile of books stacking up and I’d love to pass them along to you, dear blog readers!
Please comment below with the title and author of a book you read recently that you would …
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Anticipation of Good Things: Christmas and Book Publishing
Blogger: Rachel Kent
A Christmas tradition that I love is one that I now believe was established by accident and out of necessity. Every Christmas, my parents would have the children wait in the hallway with the door closed before …
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Toys in the Bookstore
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I was planning to write on this topic anyway, but now with the news of Family Christian Stores going out of business it is even more relevant. I am very sad to see more bookstores go out …
Books For Writers
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
I’m a great believer in reading. Shocking, huh? I believe that you, as a writer, should read lots of books in the genre or category in which you are writing. If you write literary fiction, you should …
Books in Unusual Places: Marketing Outside of the Box
Blogger: Rachel Kent
When I was camping up in the Sierra Nevada mountains two weekends ago, I came across a little library outside of the camp host’s camper! I was surprised to see the book cart, but I think it’s …
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Print books are not on the way out!
Blogger: Rachel Kent
As a print book reader (who tried using a Kindle and didn’t like it) all of the talk about print books disappearing caused me pain! I love my books and my bookshelves and I’m not ready to …
Seven Years as an Agent
Blogger: Rachel Kent
October marks the 7th anniversary of when I became an agent with Books & Such! When I first started, I’d go to conferences, and people would remark on how young I looked. I don’t hear that much …
How have your reading habits changed?
Blogger: Rachel Kent
In the past few years, I’ve been drawn to books that I wouldn’t have been interested in when I was in my early-to-mid twenties. When I started as an agent with Books & Such, I was primarily …
9 Items from The Everything Store
Blogger: Rachelle Gardner
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone tells the story of the rise of Amazon from a tiny upstart to the juggernaut it is today. I found it fascinating from the …
The Importance of White Space
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
A couple of weeks ago I got one of my favorite kinds of calls. It was an offer to let me go through the library of a young pastor who died in 1963. His widow was …