Last night I was looking at a recent religion bestseller list—top ten hardcover and top ten paperback. Of the 20 titles, 5 were from Harper SanFrancisco. I doubt there is another book publisher that has sold more copies by Quaker authors than Harper SanFrancisco—D. Elton Trueblood, Thomas Kelly, Richard J. Foster, Philip Gulley….

A little envy? Perhaps, but my publishing goals are not about getting a piece of a pie that was put together in someone else’s kitchen and is already baked and sliced. I want to make a new pie.