by Margaret Philbrick | Jun 19, 2025 | Books, Community, Growing Life, Margaret's Musings
It’s impossible how fast babies grow in their first year! We hardly recognize them from the “old” newborn photos. Those scrawny little, needy babes get chunky, become aware and begin to vie for themselves. It’s the same in the life of a book....
by Margaret Philbrick | Oct 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
John Koehler, founding publisher at the small indie press, Koehler Books just wrote this blog post for their website,http://www.koehlerbooks.com/the-truth-about-book-marketing/ While reading it, he jarred my thoughts back to book marketing with a sigh. My experience...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 19, 2017 | Community
Everbloom, Stories of Living Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives is the new book from Redbud Writers Guild which launches next week. How did it happen? On a sweet summer night in 2015 my hubby and I were sitting on the patio talking about the transforming work God has...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Imagine lines three people wide as far as you can see for Jonathan Safran Foer to sign his forthcoming novel, Here I Am. Think people rushing the entrance to get the coolest book bag swag from Sourcebooks, the free measuring spoons from Capstone. There were so many...
by Margaret Philbrick | Nov 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I hit “submit” last night. This time it wasn’t to an agent or a publisher. This time it was personal, to a poetry publication. During the long winter months of looking for a publisher for my novel, A Minor, I grew quite used to hitting the submit button and then...