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A Brief History of Christian Publishing

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/89000-how-religion-publishing-became-a-billion-dollar-industry.html

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Five life lessons from 40 years in the marketing world

More helpful thoughts from Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/05/02/life-lessons/

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A couple of thoughts on traditional vs. self publishing

Intellectual property is an enormous asset, and when you sign a traditionally published deal, you are giving it to someone else. And here’s the thing: You cannot control what ultimately…

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A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected

The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/florida-rejected-textbooks.html

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Bursting through the seam

A Bloomberg analysis found that of the 100 richest people in the world, eight had no college education or inherited family wealth - no obvious Cumulative Advantage. There was one…

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Slant vs. Bias

I’ve been struck by how often slant is confused with bias - as though having a point of view, a set of assumptions, or a firmly held opinion is in…

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“Hire” This Question to Bring Lift to Your Marketing

by Keith Reynold Jennings https://businessesgrow.com/2021/05/26/lift-to-your-marketing/

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More marketing insights from Mark Schaefer’s Uprising event

A couple of days ago I posted an article by Mark Schaeffer summarizing his 2022 "The Uprising" event, which contained many very insightful thoughts about how marketing is evolving, being…

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How to Lengthen Your Nonfiction Book When You Feel Like You’ve Said Everything

Is there a step in my process for which I need to offer more explanation to the reader?Could a story, testimony, or example add more impact, interest, or understanding to…

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Highlights from the world’s best marketing event

Mark Schaefer recently held one of his annual The Uprising events, and was kind enough to share several insights. A few of my own takeaways from his article are below.…

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Starts and Fits

If dumping your first few paragraphs doesn’t result in a good opening, look over what you’ve written with the sole purpose of finding the strongest sentence in the whole piece.…

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Relentlessly search

If you dig deeply into the source of profitability for most companies today, you’ll find that it’s based on the fact that they’ve created a monopoly of time, space, or…

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Prepositions

First, the preposition, which we love for its startling power to affirm and reframe relationships. Think, for instance,  how much prepositional theology is imbedded in the words of the hymn…

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This Small Library Off the Coast of Maine Is Collecting Banned Books

With challenges to books in the United States at a high, the Matinicus Island Library is a remote haven for controversial literature. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-small-library-off-the-coast-of-maine-is-collecting-banned-books-180979861/

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On Word Counts for First-Time Authors

For some time now in coaching sessions with brand-new authors, I’ve noticed a good majority of them telling me that they are writing a small book - many times less…

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A deep-down-ness

“...to begin seeing anyway that there is pain in every life, even the apparently luckiest, that buried griefs and hurtful memories are part of us all...there is so much to…

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My Fourteen Semi-Brilliant Quotations for Working Authors

by Jay Payleitner “IF YOU WRITE, GO AHEAD AND CALL YOURSELF A WRITER.” “IF YOU CALL YOURSELF A WRITER, EMBRACE WRITING OF ALL KINDS.”“DOING SOMETHING WELL LEADS TO MORE CHANCES TO…

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The To & Fro

by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/the-to-and-fro?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Opening Salvo

In the musical 1776 there’s a classic scene in which Thomas Jefferson starts his solitary work of drafting the Declaration of Independence. Quill in hand, he scribbles down a line,…

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Finding the Seam

Today businesses and entrepreneurs need an active framework for setting strategic direction more like American football. These teams fixate on exploiting any space on the field that is underdefended, even…