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Tag Archives: publisher
V&B’s Current Owner = New Friend
VanderWyk & Burnham (V&B) is the name of the tradebook publishing company I founded in 1994 and sold in 2009. Its mission statement was to publish books that promote learning, compassion, and self-reliance and make a difference in people’s lives. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Ruminations
Tagged Angie Quick, business, Facebook, friend, mission statement, publisher, publishing, tradebook, V&B, VanderWyk & Burnham
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Adam Davies, Hard at Work and Loving It
Yesterday I bought another book at Bookstore1Sarasota in order to have the author sign it after his appearance there from 6-7:00 pm. I bought Mine All Mine. I would have bought his book Goodbye Lemon as well, because I love … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling, Books and Authors
Tagged Adam Davies, Amazon, books, bookselling, bookstore signing, Bookstore1Sarasota, cashier, creative writing, employee, Goodbye Lemon, Mine All Mine, New College of Florida, New York City, novel, Penguin Books, publisher, publishing, reading, Riverhead Trade, The Frog King, work, writer-in-residence
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Fixing What’s Broke in Our Food System
Husband Gary and his sister have co-owned a corn and soybeans farm in Iowa for years, and that’s as personally connected as I’ll probably ever be to a farm. I worry about what I eat, though, and what our agribusinesses … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors
Tagged agribusiness, book, corn, eating, environment, Fair Food, farm, food, food industry, health, Iowa, livestock, nonfiction, Oran B. Hesterman, PublicAffairs, publisher, soybeans
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It’s Not Like Selling Beer
My head was nodding vigorously in agreement when I first read the following quotation in a Shelf Awareness e-newsletter. It’s an excerpted portion of an interview with author Margaret Atwood. After the quotation, click on the link provided if you … Continue reading
Posted in Book Publishing or Selling
Tagged beer, business, Margaret Atwood, publisher, selling
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Introduction to Blog Plan
Why “Yours In Books”? Simple. It’s hard to engage me in any conversation for any length of time unless a book is mentioned at some point. I’m not an especially widely read person, but whatever someone else is reading or … Continue reading
Posted in About the Blog
Tagged blog, books, editing, el-hi, fiction, memoir, publisher, spiritual, spirituality, textbook, tradebook, writer, writing
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