HeyJaredPublishing Disrupted
Editor Mick Silva and publisher and agent David Morris explore the ways in which book publishing is changing, and how writers can best meet the challenge.
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How Christian Publishing Promotes the Status Quo (opens the original)
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Every few years, someone declares that Christian publishing is dying. Mick has heard it for his entire 26-year career. The Christian bookstore chains closed. The trade association that once anchored the industry shrank, rebranded, then folded. A recent opinion piece described the slow decline of denominational publishing. Christian books aren’t camping out on the bestseller lists like they used to and you have to conclude that sales lack the robustness of Christian publishing’s halcyon days in t
Religious Ethicist Liz Bucar on Being Curious, Slow Writing, and Going Viral (opens the original)
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When was titling her new book Beyond Wellness (Tarcher, 2026) with her agent, their initial idea was “The Religion Factor,” using a word that many folks tend to avoid. She spent months arguing with herself about the subtitle, since “Restoring the Religious Roots of Spiritual Practices”<span
What We Can Learn about Editing and Publishing from My Intern, Ellie Silva (opens the original)
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Podcasting keeps surprising me. When David asked if my oldest daughter Ellie would be up for coming on and sharing about interning with me for the summer, I had no doubt I’d love this episode. Ellie’s spending her senior year internship learning the guts and glory of editing and publishing with me, so David and I asked her to share her impressions so far, how she sees the editing process, and what we might glean from her fresh, Gen Z perspective. Look at the big picture and the tiny detailsWe st
Facing the Disruption with Honesty and Healthy Skepticism (opens the original)
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Sometimes conversations seem to turn into working sessions to try and evaluate what the hell’s wrong with you both. You ever have those? Like, what’s happened to us? You can try to make sense of it, or maybe just embrace and accept a bit more. My chats with David always seem to help me do one or the other. For this episode, as usual, we tried to step back from our own perspectives and share what we observe about a couple of things happening in book publishing right now. We don’t like to presume
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