Model for success—Wildlife photographers turned children’s book publishers How is a successful book publishing project born? Sometimes, by accident. For example, about ten years ago veteran nature photographers Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick were planning a book about the whitetail deer, and, while sorting through their thousands of… Read more   

Branding Book Brings Credibility to California Businessman Mike Jenkins is a 28-year veteran of the remodeling industry, and his company, Renaissance Doors, has specialized in door and window replacement in Orange County, California for 24 years. One day Jenkins was inspired to write a how-to book on home remodeling. He… Read more   

How Authors can get through the Perfect (Publicity) Storm We are a society running on overdrive. We’re overworked, underpaid, out of time, running late, and trying to catch up. There’s the book reviewer that can’t quite fit that clever new book into this month’s issue, the publicist who’s juggling fifteen… Read more   

1st annual Axiom Business Book Awards contest is designed to bring great business books and great business people together. On August 15th, 2007, Jenkins Group launched the first annual, 2008 Axiom Business Book Awards, designed to honor the year’s best business books and their authors and publishers.… Read more   

Renegade Self-Publisher Speeds His Way to Success As a young man, Burt Levy had two dreams: to drive great race cars and to write great novels. Since then, he’s won over 70 auto races and eight championships, driving some of the world’s fastest and most famous automobiles. Now 58, Levy… Read more   

Nobody likes rejection. Unfortunately for today’s unpublished author, rejection is a fact of life. Even the most successful authors have horror stories about the numerous rejections they’ve endured. As major publishers become larger and more bestseller-oriented, unknown authors find it more and more difficult to get a contract. The success… Read more   

A Conversation with Steve Leveen So many books, so little time… Most everyone agrees that the commodity they’d most like to have more of is TIME. For book lovers, any extra time gained would likely be spent reading. But imagine you did receive a gift of extra reading time. How… Read more