April Conference Call on Story & Publishing
Wedgwood Circle April Conference Call moderated by Andy Crouch with special guests Jill Lamar & Carey Wallace
The Power of Story and Promoting the Good,
True and Beautiful through Publishing
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
The recording of this call is available HERE.
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Join the Wedgwood Circle Staff with our featured moderator, Andy Crouch, and guests, Jill Lamar and Carey Wallace, as we discuss the current cultural climate within the sector of publishing and how we can strategically invest in the power of story.
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Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. A senior editor at Christianity Today International, he has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip and was editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008. Andy is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute, and serves on the board of Equitas Group, a philanthropic organization focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia. His writing has appeared in several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. Andy studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000.
Jill Lamar is the Director of the Discover Great New Writers program at Barnes & Noble, a marketing and merchandising program staffed by volunteer booksellers who choose worthy new titles from debuting and little-known writers for special promotion in over 700 Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide and on www.bn.com. Jill also administrates the Barnes & Noble Recommends program, another bookseller-driven initiative that strives to “break out” new and underserved writers, making instant bestsellers of their latest publication via single-title promotion both in store and on-line. Prior to her appointment to the Discover program, Jill joined Barnes & Noble as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer, and held various roles at Bantam Doubleday Dell. Before following her heart in the world of books, Jill worked in finance for a number of years. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Arizona State University.
Carey Wallace is an emerging new writer. Her debut novel, “The Blind Contessa’s New Machine”, will be released by Viking/Penguin in July 2010. Her work has appeared in Oasis, SPSM&H, Detroit’s MetroTimes and quarrtsiluni, which she guest-edited in 2008. Carey is a founder of the Working Artists Initiative for the International Arts Movement, which helps emerging artists establish strong creative habits, of the Zoae Series, a New York arts showcase which she directed until 2008, and of the event-based Lost City Gallery, which has connected young artists with patrons in both New York and Detroit. She is a photographer with Detroit Safari, which has documented Detroit’s vulnerable abandoned landmarks annually since 2003. Along with her brother she has released six albums of original songs, as well as a album of solo work, “Waltzes and Lullabies”. In 2000, Carey founded an annual arts retreat, The Hillbilly Underground, which draws nationally-recognized filmakers, writers, fine artists, and musicians to rural Michigan each summer. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Thank you for this. It’s excellent and so helpful. Great panel and REALLY important conversation. So glad I could join this!