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. …
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips Finding Your “Strategic Space” in the Market An important part of building a following for your writing is your ability to get noticed online – to rise above “the noise”. From a strategic perspective, you would ideally…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The New Rules of Brand Awareness Many prospective clients come to me asking for help to tell their story so that they can attract customers and create brand experience. For decades, businesses have created brand awareness…
Writing tips Looking Back Though The Liars’ Club rang true to me when I wrote it, from this juncture it seems to have sprung from a state of loving delusion about my family. In…
Publishing tips Can I Make a Living as a Writer? - by Christopher Ferebee This question is a common one. Especially for people new to writing and wondering if there's any real money in it. Unfortunately, to truly answer this…
Writing tips The Writer in Me by Maya Gaines When I was a young girl my grandmother Anna Delores Freeman would often take time to talk to me about life. My grandma was a very sweet…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The More Experiments You Run Good things come to those who wait, and for experimentalists, it's never too late to become original. After Frank Lloyd Wright received the contract for Fallingwater, his most celebrated architectural…
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 to write a book. Who…
Writing tips Creative Work is Soul Work Creative work is soul work; it happens in that interior place where spiritual life forms the rest of life. Your spiritual beliefs and your creative drive reside in the same…