Publishing tips How I Became a Best-Selling Author in 72 Hours by Frank Lee I was in the front row at the "Writing for your life seminar when “The” Barbara Brown Taylor told us, "As an author, fame is not…
Marketing tips The Law of Focus The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospect’s mind. If the given words are computer, copier, chocolate bar, and cola, the four most associated…
Writing tips Revision Magnifies Inspiration Every gorgeous sentence, every sparkling idea, is well worth loving. But stay open to the possibility that there’s even more to love on the way. Lasting relationships between yourself and…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Creativity: Raw Material It’s such a temptation to treat creativity as something extra, isn’t it? When I’ve done all my work and taken care of my family and straightened the house or office…
Writing tips How to Tell When You’re Halfway Finished I enter a mild depression in the middle of every book I write (or edit, for that matter). I’m in too deep to back out, yet I cannot see…
Writing tips God Redeems Our Work A few years ago I realized with a thud of dread that I had about a month to come up with the songs for a new album. I had…
Writing tips Revision Is New Vision If revision isn’t what our English teachers taught, what is it exactly? Revision is the work of seeing with new eyes. Creativity is the ability to make new things or…
Writing tips A Writer’s Insides Voice grows from the nature of a writer’s talent, which stems from innate character. Just as a memoirist’s nature bestows her magic powers on the page, we also wind up…
Marketing tips A Battle of Ideas Marketing is a battle of ideas. So if you are to succeed, you must have an idea or attribute of your own to focus your efforts around. Without one, you…
Writing tips It’s a miracle anyone writes anything Our production manager Jock (yes, that was his name) worked with printers to produce our books, since, like most publishers, we didn’t have printing presses. He knew the processes intimately…
