Sourcebooks Casablanca Romance Authors

To me, the end of one thing equals a new beginning for something else. And never has that been truer than this year! One beginning we're incredibly excited to share is the launch of the new Sourcebooks.com . The new site features special sections for Authors (including guidelines, all our books on writing , tools for agents, and more) Readers (including a great gift guide ), and what projects are coming Next , both for Sourcebooks and the world of publishing. We're especially thrilled to introduce our Books Change Lives initiative , a project in conjunction with Publishers Weekly, Shelf Unbound and Friday Reads. We hope you'll stop by and share with us what book(s) made a profound difference in your life. And what could be more never-ending than a love for Jane Austen? To celebrate her birthday today, we're offering a number of our Austen-related ebooks for free! Normally, most of these titles are $9.99, so snag them while you can. The deal is good today only! To...

by Danielle Jackson Something I get asked quite a bit about at conferences and when I give presentations on publicity and marketing for romance is what authors can do before they are published. And you know what? It’s a tough question, because I don’t really know too much about what authors do before they are published aside from writing because I’m put in contact with authors after they’ve been signed! Recently I attended the Chicago-North Spring Fling Conference in Illinois and I had to give the Sourcebooks Spotlight all alone—and it wasn’t as terrifying as I thought it would be!—but as I started preparing in the week prior what I would say and what I should be prepared to answer, I thought about what I like for authors to have when they come to me for the first time. Many of you here know that process; our publicity manager sends you an email with some general info and then I send you a follow-up email, usually with too many exclamation points at the ends of my sentences, but with a...