Books & Such Literary Management

Congratulations to our Parable Bestsellers Robin Jones Gunn and Robin Williams Pearson!

This week on the blog President & Founder Janet Grant provides some possibly surprising insight into the life and mind of an agent. Read more at the link in our bio or at Books and Such dot com!

Congratulations to our June ECPA Bestsellers! .k.klassen

Happy Release Day and .goyer!

This week on the blog, Agent offers gentle and useful advice to writers about how to spend the wait between pitch and agent response. Read it at the link in our bio or at Books and Such dot com!

We’re back with the second half of our conversation with Mark Rice, publisher and senior marketing director at Kregel Publications. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, start there — we’ve linked it in the show notes below. In this episode, Mark delivers some of his most practical and candid advice yet, covering book titling, the often-overlooked sales team, AI in publishing, and the three things he’d tell every author before they leave the room.

In this episode you’ll learn:

📚Mark’s titling pet peeve! He shares the two rules every author needs to know before naming their book
📚What you need to know about a publisher’s sales team and how you can make their job easier.
📚Mark’s strong warning for authors using AI tools with their manuscripts (don’t miss this)
📚What Kregel is celebrating right now: 80+ years as an independent publisher, new leadership, and a refreshed vision
📚Mark’s three final pieces of wisdom for every author at every stage

Happy Release Day !

Happy Release Day .dietz!