For those in a faith deconstruction journey, my hope is that you’ll revel in Freud’s unsparing, ruthlessly honest discussion about religion. It’s a refreshing experience and essential reading.
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See the Lake Drive Books publishing page for more about us, some of the specific book ideas we'd like to see, and how to submit your book proposal: www.lakedrivebooks.com/publishing/ #MSWL
Our indie house is looking for committed nonfiction writers of essay collections, subject matter experts, contemplative thinkers who can appeal to the growing faith deconstruction movement. Must see the marketing of your work as an integral part of what you do. See next for how to submit. #MSWL
On this episode, Mick and I get into our own faith journeys. Between who we are as publishing people and our authors and their books, we are each influencing the other, and not pretending there’s neutrality.
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So glad to have Jeff Elkins on Publishing Disrupted!
We're joined by novelist, writing coach, and Dialogue Doctor founder @jeffelkins.bsky.social for an honest conversation about vocation, disruption, and creative reinvention.
Listen wherever you get podcasts or publishingdisrupted.substack.com.
Catch this @religiondispatches.org interview of LDB author Nia Chiaramonte by the intrepid Chrissy Stroop, @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social.
Such a good conversation. Lessons for us all.
You’ll definitely want to check out her book “I Hardly Knew Me”.
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Authors, publishing & exvangelical friends: we covered a lot in this recent Publishing Disrupted podcast with author
@marlataviano.bsky.social.
You can get the summary and video on our Substack post but listen wherever you get podcasts.
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They should be questioned, and in a meaningful way. Publishers need authors as business partners more now than ever before, and yet royalties have stayed utterly fixed. The time has come to modify the thinking. /4
That’s what we’re trying to do at @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social, and yeah, it can work. Mindset of abundance. In business and life, everything can be negotiated, but in the scarcity mindset of publishing today, royalty percentages are not. 3/
Publishers have too much overhead (partially due to investor and executive salaries), assume too much risk competing for high-profile authors, and can do a better job financially partnering with authors at all levels. 2/
I took a strong stance on this podcast about how, if authors want to start advocating for themselves, they should take a stronger stance on the issue of royalty percentages and focus less on advances. The argument for it is there. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/publishi...
“You can have self-worth WITHOUT relying on anyone else to give it to you?!”
New on the Lake Drive Substack: a powerful guest post from Nia Chiaramonte, author of "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
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I don’t often write about my day job, but this week on Substack I did.
It's about the amazing new people who joined together at
@hyponymousliterary: Audrey Farley, Ivy Zeller, and lenny duncan.
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Don't be one of those people who stick their fingers in their ears and go "na na na na na na na . . . "
Our latest on the Publishing Disrupted podcast. It’s the Christians vs. the Coastal Elites!
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"With liberalism, with so much historical mixing of cultures, with the way one religion in particular was and is used as a cudgel for supremacy, it’s not hard to agree that we lack robust, colorful, textured, rich-tasting traditions in the US."
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The podcast in which I talk about how if you didn't go to church in the 1600s colonies, you would get fined 50 pounds of tobacco. (from reading Everyday Life in Early America by David Hawke). @brchastain.social @rsokamoto.bsky.social @micksilva.bsky.social
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correction: co-founder of Ink and Root Collective with the amazing @rsokamoto.bsky.social
What happens when publishing becomes less about chasing platforms and more about building genuine communities?
That’s the question at the heart of this week’s episode of Publishing Disrupted, with our guest, Rohadi Nagassar.
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“'It was the joy of watching people discovering books,' David said. No algorithms. No targeted ads. No social media campaigns. Just the simple, powerful attraction a reader feels to encountering something unique or offbeat that speaks to them."
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We’re only one week into our Holy Disobedience Kickstarter and we're already one third funded!
Join us! Your participation counts. See link in bio. Or head over to:
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Watch this on YouTube and the link is in the notes. This is a blow your socks off story and so well expressed. It shows that faith deconstruction is like going through an exorcism. With the big release on the other side. But then what.
Please consider joining. You have no idea how much your help tips the scales. Our publishing model breaks molds in more ways than just the financial model. But that counts very much so.
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Got it.
"We read a lot, maybe too much. And that probably makes us both very sexy and terrible judges of this old publishing trope that men don’t read books."
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This is it exactly. Prioritizing “the great commission” makes Christianity and especially its American evangelical form supremacist. We must deal with this. If we do, then that’s good spirituality, however defined. There’s so much to this.
“The Department of Homeland Security isn’t writing a new chapter in the White supremacist playbook but highlighting the familiar practice of White-washing our history.” -Sara Moslener
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Here’s part two of my essay on healthy and unhealthy approaches to spirituality, with Marianne Williamson serving as a prime illustration of the latter
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The latest from our publishing podcast. This is one of my favorite podcast titles ever.
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