I just heard this morning that River Oak is suspending its fiction line. They are a division of Cook Communications. The River Oak authors who passed on this information stated that River Oak is honoring the contracts they already have. They are simply not acquiring new works at this time. They sited a saturated market as one of the reasons for this change.
Whether River Oak is going to be cut all together or sold, I don't know.
So, if you're like me and have proposals with them, you can safely stop crossing your fingers and move on.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
You can stop crossing your fingers now
Thanks for this update, Gina. I hadn't heard this.
ReplyDeleteOversaturated? This is a concern.
ReplyDeleteWhen cba publishers surrender the market to the secular publisher (who will never feel the market is oversaturated with novels of graphic sex, violence and, sometimes, outright blasphemy) we all lose.
I think the oversaturation comes in with the "Christian Fiction" label. When our novels are just novels and can be placed on shelves at the front of the store instead of the ghetto "religious fiction" secion in the last row of the store, we won't have that concern. Thanks for your comment.
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