Comments on: What About Agreka Books?

By: Karen Gowen

Karen Gowen — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:45:32 +0000

Thanks, Kent, I’ll do that.

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:49:17 +0000

Karen (12), its great to have you stop by.

Drop me a note at kent (at) motleyvision (dot) org, and we’ll put together an interview for WiDo.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:12:21 +0000

David, I think I missed that you were soon to be coming out with a book, and I apologize!

Can’t wait to read it.

By: David West

David West — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:52:25 +0000

I appreciate that Karen. And I sure think editing will go great I’m sending Kristine the first 3 back Monday.

By: Karen Gowen

Karen Gowen — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:08:47 +0000

I wondered how long it would be before WiDo Publishing showed up on Motley Vision (love this website btw and what it’s doing to get info out on LDS literature and publishing.) WiDo has been under the radar for two years, seeking out its own Blue Ocean. It started as a group of authors and artists (several from the same family)who wanted to provide more options in the LDS publishing world. My first book, Farm Girl, was the kick-off, and was marketed to independent booksellers located mainly in the Great Plains states, as it’s a Nebraska regional book, although it can be found in independent bookstores from NY to CA, and locally in Borders. Second book, Uncut Diamonds, will be marketed initially to LDS independent booksellers, and a few select nonLDS independents in the Midwest, the novel’s locale. (WiDo likes working with the independent.)Initial marketing plan is to give out 200 review copies to LDS women in book clubs who love to read and talk about books, to get a buzz going to the target demographic. This year, WiDo decided the time was right to step it up and seek more submissions from LDS writers—posting the website on ldstorymakers and attending the BYU Pub Fair. The quantity and quality of submissions that have been pouring in from has been amazing…we had NO clue there would be this kind of response.

David J. West’s Book of Mormon saga was especially exciting and promising. I read his first three chapters submission and was so taken by it that I even emailed a couple paragraphs to my missionary son, a complete nut for the Book of Mormon who used to act out Teancum’s assassination plots, using black Ninja get-up and random weaponry. He’ll go nuts over West’s books, the first one to be released Oct, 2009, if editing goes as planned.

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:04:05 +0000

Correction, BIP shows that WiDo has published one title, Farm Girl by Karen Jones Gowen, in July 2007 and has a second by by Gowen coming out next month, Uncut Diamonds.

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:59:52 +0000

FWIW, WiDo Publishing is brand new LDS publisher that is apparently trying to reach both the LDS market and the national market. According to their website, no titles have been released yet.

By: David J. West

David J. West — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:20:46 +0000

I just recently signed a two book deal with a small publisher in Salt Lake, WiDo Publishing. My stuff is Book Of Mormon historical fiction that I feared was possibly pushing the limits because of grittyness, and going beyond the white hat Nephites and black hat Lamanites but they liked it.

This wasn’t written as a means to dollars so much as something that needed to be written and I am pleased to say at least I know it’s very different from what is already out there. And I was guessing it would be a long way from Agreka to WiDo.

By: Th.

Th. — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:27:20 +0000

Zarahemla and Parables are publishing very good stuff, but if your work is most appropriate for DB or Cov, they’ll probably say no. There are other smaller ones as well. This publishers series is going to be dozens long, so keep reading.

By: nosurfgirl

nosurfgirl — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:16:31 +0000

I have decided (through painful trial and error)… not to write fiction aimed at a Mormon audience. Because once you get through Deseret, Covenant, Shadow Mountain and Cedar Fort, you’re pretty much done. There’s nowhere else to go with your manuscript… at least from what I’ve seen. I’d love it if someone could debunk this and give me another direction to go; I have 2 manuscripts that are pretty specifically targeted to Mormon audiences.