Children’s Books Beating the Recession?

What’s the state of children’s publishing?

Harold Underdown, The Purple Crayon website, has reported on the economic turmoil in publishing of late 2008 and into early 2009.

Publishing, especially books for kids, is on the upswing? So say a couple of postings:

• JIll Cocoran, Literary Agent at the Herman Agency pulls out quotes from Border’s statements on their rebuilding efforts and finds hope.
• Cocoran also send readers to The Wild Rose Reader for a report on an independent book store surviving, no, thriving against competition from Barnes & Noble.

Other Stories

• This is a bit late, but funny. 3 Reasons Why the Easter Bunny should NOT be Your Marketer.
• You write, but you don’t have a blog? Don’t want a blog? Then you need a Google Profile, so people can find some information about you online, information that you control. How easy is it to set up?
• NYTimes article on book advances. What percentage of books actually earn out their advance?
• Why First Reads or First Pages critiques at a conference is like the American Idol of Manuscripts.
• The UT-Austin Library has Norman Mailer’s laptop! What do they plan to do with it?
• Alan Gratz SHOULD be writing. Instead, he’s sword fighting? AND playing at harp? At the same time?
• Everything I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned from FolkSongs?
• And Janni is talking to characters again. What advice is she giving to heroes?

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Wisdom, the Midway Albatross

by Darcy Pattison

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