News, opinion, and trend-spotting in book writing, ghostwriting, publishing, and current affairs. http://www.wkpublishing.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:29:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.wkpublishing.com/blog/leading-publishers-inside-tips.html <p><br/><img src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/blog_talk_radio.jpg" alt="blog_talk_radio.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: left; width: 187px; height: 30px" title="blog_talk_radio.jpg" height="30" width="187" /> This is an excellent, short interview with Debra Englander, Executive Editor at John Wiley &amp; Sons, the largest and most prestigious publisher of business books, in which she explains exactly what it takes to publish successfully with a trade publisher, and when it might be b [...] foster.winans@wkpublishing.com Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:32:00 +0100 http://www.wkpublishing.com/blog/a-president-who-reads.html <p class="parseasinTitle"> <img src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/alter_fdr.jpg" mce_src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/alter_fdr.jpg" alt="alter_fdr.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 5px; float: left;" title="alter_fdr.jpg" height="189" width="125"/> <img src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/goodwin_lincoln.jpg" mce_src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/goodwin_lincoln.jpg" alt="goodwin_lincoln.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0 [...] foster.winans@wkpublishing.com Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:00:00 +0100 http://www.wkpublishing.com/blog/how-palin-book-pre-managed-her-brand-59.html <br/><p><br/><img src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/palin_book.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px; float: right" name="view_imagelist" alt="Active Image" height="209" width="136" />Sept. 10, 2008--Did Sarah Palin plan to run for higher office, or did she just get lucky? A hagiographic (worshipful) biography of her put out by a small Alaska publisher known for dog-sled racing books appeared in April, touting the governor as the &quot;hockey mom&quot; that &quot;turned Alas [...] foster.winans@wkpublishing.com Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:15:18 +0100 http://www.wkpublishing.com/blog/amazon-vs.-barnes-noble-its-war.html <p><br/><img src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/cannon_bugle.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px 15px; width: 150px; height: 198px; float: left" alt=" " border="1" height="198" width="150" />&nbsp; A new Barack Obama biography has sparked a skirmish between Amazon and Barnes and Noble that opens a door into a war in which Amazon has been dubbed book publishing's Darth Vader. So reports Publishers Weekly in a column titled &quot;The Audacity of Hype.&quot; The battle is [...] foster.winans@wkpublishing.com Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100 publishing news obama bookselling news http://www.wkpublishing.com/blog/china-bashing-syndrome.html <p style="color: #000000"><br/><img src="http://www.wkpublishing.com/images/stories/ji_foster_greathall.jpg" alt="ji_foster_greathall.jpg" style="border: 0px solid #000000; margin: 5px; float: right; width: 216px; height: 179px" title="ji_foster_greathall.jpg" height="179" width="216" />China bashing has been popular in the US since the Korean War broke out in 1950, and seems to be reaching another peak leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. What was to have been the grand re-opening under new ma [...] foster.winans@wkpublishing.com Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100 prc peoples republic of china mao korean war korea china basher china beijing olympics