Writing tips Figure Eights I picture the creative process traveling the figure eight curves of an infinity sign. We begin in the world, where a travel adventure or newspaper headline or grave illness or…
Writing tips Good Habits: Whatever Happens And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not…
Publishing tips, Writing tips Freedom Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex that it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as…
Marketing tips BUSINESS HAS AN ENEMY Business has a fierce, insidious enemy that, if not identified and combated, will contort our company into an unrecognizable mess. The enemy I’m talking about is noise. …
Writing tips Practice Good writers practice and study and practice some more. They may not call it practice-they may simply keep writing, day after day-but in fact they are practicing every time they…
Publishing tips What’s the Difference Between Marketing and Publicity? - by Jana Burson Curious about the difference between marketing and publicity? One of the earliest explanations I remember hearing, maybe even as far back as college, was this: Marketing…
Writing tips Charm Them – by Mary Karr However you charm people in the world, you should do so on the page. A lot of great writers rebuke charm, and I don’t mean the word to conjure a…
Marketing tips When Preparation meets Relationships meets Opportunity I remember one client, Jerry DeWitt, who had been a Pentecostal minister for twenty-eight years. After reading the work of and meeting Richard Dawkins he eventually became an atheist and,…
Uncategorized THE WRITER’S THREE PRIORITIES One spring I attended the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was privileged to hear Jane Yolen speak. Yolen, the author…
Uncategorized Creativity: Name Your Gift The LORD spoke to Moses: See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him…
Marketing tips Releasing a book during COVID? It’s a whole new world out there. A strong, digital presence has always been essential, but now without the benefit of end caps, window displays, or author signings in your favorite bookstores, it’s more important than…
Writing tips When You Are Stuck When you are stuck in a book; when you are well into writing it, and know what comes next, and yet cannot go on; when every morning for a week…
Marketing tips Mistake Number Two The second mistake brands make is they cause their customers to burn too many calories in an effort to understand their offer. When having to process too…
Writing tips Kurt Vonnegut on Writing and Talent https://www.pw.org/content/kurt_vonnegut_on_writing_and_talent
Writing tips Longing to Belong from “Adorning the Dark” by Andrew Peterson During our first ten years in Nashville our family lived in four different houses. We liked the adventure of a new place.…
