Getting (or giving) a Kindle, Nook or iPad this holiday season? Then how about a fun book to go with your new ereader? As heard on KCUR Radio, Pilate’s Cross is garnering some great reviews and enthusiastic fans.

John Adams and Criss Kirchhoff were busy making sure all the food was ready for pickup at the Front Porch Alliance. The two retired men provide monthly food baskets for 120 needy families through the charitable organization.

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Prior to his show at RecordBar in Kansas City in November 2010, singer/songwriter Dan Coyle talks about marketing his music.

If you’ve invested thousands of dollars and years of consistency in your brand and decide that it’s what’s holding you back; then you need to put pen to paper and ask “If I jettison our identity and create a new one, how much will it cost?” Are you prepared to flush your brand equity–essentially zeroing out your name recognition–and pay a consultant or tie up your marketing team for weeks or months? (Not to mention waiting perhaps a year or two to see if it pays off.)

If you’re an engraver, a placement in Engraver’s Journal might be worth more than a placement in USA Today–it depends on your audience and goals as always. But it also depends on the RESULTS you’re able to achieve. And the results of a placement in either could be negligible, or could be life-changing.

The economy understandably makes you interested in talking with any and all potential clients. Just watch out for ghosts.

We were just spread too thinly

A favorite publishing technique for ruining years of hard work is to fumble getting the book into stores until after its limited “shelf life” has expired and it’s all too late — and the maddened author wishes to assemble a Molotov cocktail and . . .

Kansas City has been very good to Dan Coyle, and now the acclaimed singer songwriter Dan Coyle aims to give something back by launching his new CD at RecordBar Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.