Writing tips You Can’t be a Reader and a Writer - by Tony Jones A long time ago, someone told me, “The best writers are great readers.” The thinking was that if you read a lot — and read…
Publishing tips How to Pitch an Agent/Editor in 15 Minutes or Less - by Christopher Ferebee Often times when you attend a writers conference, you have an opportunity to sit down, speed dating style, for 3-15 minutes with various editors and agents.…
Publishing tips 5 Tips to a Great Book Proposal – by Angela Scheff When putting together your proposal, please put as much care into it as if it were going to be published itself. There are some things that immediately stand out to…
Marketing tips An Audience That Can Be Activated – by Mark Schaefer The key to assembling an audience that can be activated is to patiently build a meaningful and relevant emotional connection with them. This can occur two ways: passively or actively.…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Finding Your Blue Ocean In previous articles we’ve discussed the advantage of finding your own unique space in the market, which makes it easier for you to become “known” and build your following. Today…
Writing tips Our creativity rebirths the world Creativity can reveal the beauty and wonder of the spiritual life. Every time you create something, you are re-creating something that God created, and you are re-creating it in such…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Trust Over the years, the concept of trust and how crucial it is for business success has evolved in my mind and grown in importance. The mental model I’ve chosen to…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Strong Is Knowing Your Own Power and Exercising It Humbly God’s grace sustains us through our beginnings and endings. Losing my mom when I was twenty felt like the end of being a daughter and the beginning of being a…
Writing tips Why fiction? – Part Two Originally posted on November 3, 2016 by Sarah Arthur A few weeks ago I woke up on a work day (I get only two per week) contemplating spending the morning…
Marketing tips Will My Book Launch Include a Publicity Campaign? – Jana Burson So you have a publishing deal, you’ve written your book, and the next phase is working with the marketing department on the launch plans. You find yourself wondering if there…
Uncategorized The People of God - by Lindy Thompson If the earth is going to tremble, if the trees are going to move, if ancient boulders are going to tumble down – give me…
Marketing tips Which is more important: The content, or the person? By Mark Schaefer I lectured before a university class the other day and a student asked a great question: “When creating a personal brand, which is more important, the content,…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Run It By Your Peers Neither test audiences nor managers are ideal judges of creative ideas. They're too prone to false negatives; they focus too much on reasons to reject an idea and stick too…
Uncategorized It Is Up To Us Since yesterday I have been struggling to come up with any words about this... When I introduced Rachel Held Evans as a keynote speaker at the Buechner/Princeton and…
Uncategorized When “I AM” Calls By Chanté Griffin “Write a book about race and Christianity.” God’s words hit me as strong and thick as the Ghanaian sun under which I sat. Still,…
Writing tips Fighting the Imposter Syndrome by Carey H. Latimore IV As a high schooler, my morning routine almost always involved throwing up. …
