Happy Birthday Publisher Lady! :)

Happy Birthday Publisher Lady, Cynthia!

A little over two years ago, give or take a few months, a certain person at the Writers' Cafe Press took a chance on a certain author when nobody else would and now it's her birthday again! Funny how that happens every year.

I agree that moving back to Canada was the best thing but I MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!

Happy Birthday YOU!

Christmas deal! I've got copies of Forever Richard.

Yes that's right fans. Another slight box of books has arrived at my door and so I now have ten *whoosh*. . . make that seven copies of Forever Richard to autograph and sell myself. Please use the links on SueDent.blogspot.com to order and not the ones on my websites as I can no longer afford to sell my books for ten dollars with free shipping. Each book from me autographed will be $12.00. I will have to add postage for orders outside the US but do my best to get the best price. Order now and get the set for Christmas!

I do so hope you get to take advantage before the books are gone. :)

Plenty of Never Ceese the paperback to take advantage of for now. I ordered a lot more of those.

Good luck and Merry Christmas. But of course, Happy Thanksgiving too!

Jane Austin, Chai Tea and Me.

Jane Austin, Chai Tea and Me. An absolutely perfect review of Forever Richard. :) Short and sweeeeet! One of many I've enjoyed reading today. Be sure and check this one out at Jane Austin, Chai Tea and Me.

Faithwords-cutting edge Christian Fiction or blurring the line?

If I had a vote it would be blurring the line.

At the moment Hatchette books has two imprints for Christian Fiction. Center Street and Faithwords. They describe Center Street as their imprint to handle fiction for "edgier" Christian readers (translated this means CBA readers because CBA has set itself up as the Christian Publishing Industry so anything Christian is inherently designed to appeal to evangelical readers first and anyone else after that.) Faithwords is, according to Hatchette Books FAQ, "exclusively written for Christian audiences." Again the Christian audience in publishing today is defined by CBA. So this would be Hatchette books CBA affiliated imprint.

And to further emphasize this fact, recent reviews of recent releases from Faithwords fall in line with reviews for other CBA or ECPA affiliated books. The work seems to unbelievable for CBA's and ECPA's audience of evangelicals and too overt and targeted for general market Christian readers.

Having said that, their Center Street imprint doesn't seem to offer much hope either. Publishing affiliated authors such as Dekker might be one of the problems. However, I feel the biggest problem is that the Christian Publishing Industry is presently defined by an organization whose market, according to www.cabonline.com is evangelicals and some Catholics.

Amazing isn't it?

But yes, IMO blurring the line is the order of the day. :)

Publish America is a sister company of Journey Stone Creations?

Publish America is a sister company of Journey Stone Creations? When I heard someone was told this in a letter from my old publisher, I had to see it. And now I'll show it to you.



Wow! Just wow!

All I can say is that when I signed on with Journey Stone they were a traditional press. I was paid an advance and they had distribution through STL/Faithworks. While I was with them they did end that relationship to try and secure distribution through Ingram but didn't qualify. For the duration of my time spent with them, they only had a wholesale relationship with Baker & Taylor (or some kind of relationship.) Of course, then without warning, they sold a ton of books, including all of Never Ceese to a liquidator. Tax documents they're required to send authors have yet to be sent to me and so I had to extend filing taxes.

And now they claim Publish America is a sister company and they're forwarding MS's to them for authors who think their submitting to a traditional publishing house.

Again, WoW!