“The book is in its sixth printing,” she says, and it was named one of Cooking Light’s top 100 cookbooks of the last 25 years. “It’s having an extraordinary life.” Infuse with Funding ...

When Nicole Taylor’s agent suggested three years ago that she write a Juneteenth cookbook, Ms. Taylor, a food writer, shelved the idea. She didn’t think any publisher would buy it.

When I worked in publishing in the late 1990s, my boss often repeated the business maxim, “Fast, cheap, and good—pick two.” This is the belief that it’s impossible to produce something of ...

It used to be that the way for an amateur cook to get a cookbook deal was to reach out to publishers and pitch their idea, then wait for the reply – usually, a rejection. Now, thanks to social ...

I was all set to dislike “Good and Cheap” by Leanne Brown (190 pages, Workman Publishing Inc., $16.95, 101 recipes). I haughtily thought it would be full of the kinds of half-cooking,… ...