Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Flowing The Internet is the world’s largest copy machine. At its most fundamental level this machine copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In…
Writing tips The Affliction That Must Not Be Named Toward the end of the Year of Pretending to Write a Book, an interview on All Things Considered caught my attention. The man being interviewed was described as a consultant…
Writing tips Living Revision Revision’s bad reputation is based on stereotypes and misunderstanding. As soon as we pen a thought, we’ve already revised an invisible, intangible wisp inside our head into visible, tangible print.…
Writing tips A Contribution to the Literary World – by Robert Benson At the beginning of a new book, I find it easier to write if I do not think about the fact that I am attempting…
Uncategorized Searching for Home – by Frederick Buechner I receive maybe three or four hundred letters a year from strangers who tell me that the books I have spent the better part of…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Straight from the Authors – Part 2 In this article Angela Scheff from the Christopher Ferebee Agency interviews several amazing authors—Lisa Whittle, Jonathan Merritt and Leeana Tankersley—who describe their writing process and what surprised them about the…
Writing tips Sarah Arthur’s Top Ten Tips for Getting it Done - by Sarah Arthur Q1: What is that one thing you must start/finish/work on? (Or, to put it in graphic terms, if you were to die in an epic…
Uncategorized Finding God in the Cereal Aisle - by Donna Owusu-Ansah At the time I am writing this, my daughters—six and four—are playing with wooden blocks. It is one of those beautiful moments where they are playing…
Publishing tips How to Approach a Literary Agent for Representation - by Tim Beals, Credo Literary Agency After writing a book proposal that includes two or three sample chapters, make a list of agents that seem appropriate for you and…