{"id":5423,"date":"2013-07-31T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2013-07-31T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:42:15","slug":"does-this-platform-make-me-look-talentless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5423","title":{"rendered":"Does This Platform Make Me Look Talentless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Duran remarks on <i>The Weekly Standard<\/i> article on J. Mark Bertrand and his Roland March novels. Jon Breen had written of Bertrand&#8217;s limited audience because his books are published by Bethany House. Duran asks, &#8220;So <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeduran.com\/2013\/07\/christian-fiction-is-not-a-victimless-crime\/\">how does being a religious publisher limit<\/a> the reach of an author\u2019s audience? Well, it doesn\u2019t\u2026 unless you write sci-fi, epic fantasy, ethnic fiction, espionage, horror, literary, or crime fiction.&#8221; He says Bertrand&#8217;s books deserve a large readership, but perhaps this publisher doesn&#8217;t know how to market them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I understand what&#8217;s missing. Is it simply that if it doesn&#8217;t sell in a Christian bookstore to a primary audience of white women, Christian publishers don&#8217;t know what else to do with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Duran remarks on The Weekly Standard article on J. Mark Bertrand and his Roland March novels. Jon Breen had written of Bertrand&#8217;s limited audience because his books are published by Bethany House. Duran asks, &#8220;So how does being a religious publisher limit the reach of an author\u2019s audience? Well, it doesn\u2019t\u2026 unless you write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does This Platform Make Me Look Talentless?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-publishing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}