Marketing tips How to Advertise on Facebook In an earlier article I described the 5 Most Important Requirements for Building Your Facebook Following. (great content, consistency, format types, advertising, and engagement) This article goes into greater depth…
Publishing tips The Importance of a Book Proposal by Jana Burson of The Christopher Ferebee Agency Your proposal is not only the tool by which you will obtain your literary agent, it's also the tool your agent will use…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips For Aspiring Writers: Your One-Stop Conference/Festival Etiquette Guide For Aspiring Writers: Your One-Stop Conference/Festival Etiquette Guide By Sarah Arthur As a published author who has made some of my biggest breaks by meeting editors at writing conferences, I’m…
Uncategorized About Community – by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson When the people and values that shape my diverse communities are in conflict with each other, I must consider: Will I remain true to my God or true to the…
Writing tips Craft is a Form of Hospitality Craft is a form of hospitality. When readers (real or imagined) show up at your door, how do you invite them in? What makes them comfortable but not too comfortable?…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips “How To Build Your Own Podcast Program” – video training Mike McHargue (better known as Science Mike) is an author, podcaster, and speaker who travels the world helping people understand the science of life’s most profound and mundane experiences. Mike’s…
Marketing tips, Writing tips Creating Social Currency In “Contagious” Dr. Jonah Berger establishes three key strategies to help create social currency that gives people a way to make themselves look good while promoting you and your ideas…
Writing tips Being a Voice Not an Echo – by Rachel Hauck Writing in the Christian fiction market pushes us to go beyond the realm of this life to find meaning and purpose for our characters. Even non…
Writing tips Take Note of Others’ Responses Pay attention to how other people respond to your creative work. A true gift gives true pleasure to others-or it truly stirs them up. When your friend’s face lights up…
Writing tips Be Uncomfortable While writing, we choose again and again to be uncomfortable, going against instinct and social norms and, possibly, good sense. From discomfort rises our best work. If we can hold…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips It’s Not About You If you’ve paid any attention to my posts, you know that I am bullish regarding the need for new authors to participate in social media and build a platform (a…
Marketing tips Attraction -> Affinity -> Action Every business today, no matter its size or legacy, faces four massive challenges. They are: - Clutter - Competition - Commoditization - Consumer consciousness Faced with unlimited choices, savvy consumers…
Uncategorized On baseball, elections, & why fiction – Part One Originally posted on November 3, 2016 by Sarah Arthur The day after one of the
Publishing tips, Writing tips 10 Tips for Working with an Editor - by Tony Jones A while back I was in Chicago, meeting with my editor about my next book. I’ve known him professionally and as a friend for over a decade,…
Publishing tips Do I Need a Synopsis? - by Angela Scheff You’ve been working on your killer idea. You’ve put time into developing your chapters, your narrative arc, your proposal. By chance you run into a publisher…
Marketing tips 22 Quick Ideas to Achieve Content Ignition Paraphrased from “The Content Code” by Mark Schaefer 1. Add social sharing buttons to your website. 2. Give away your content; make it easy to access 3. Be entertaining, funny,…
Writing tips Small Events by Frederick Buechner Life went on of course because that is what life does. I kept on writing books, which a relatively small but faithful audience kept on reading. It…
Uncategorized Writing is a Spiritual Discipline – by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson I’ve come to understand that for me writing is a spiritual discipline, a therapy of sorts. It is one of the ways that I communicate with God. Over the…
Writing tips They Push Me I turn to these writers and their pages again and again. They are my teachers and my mentors. Though not all of them are poets in the rhyme-and-meter sense of…
Writing tips Expect to Become More Attentive to, and Engaged with Life Creative work teaches you to pay attention, and this is something that few people do well or often. We spend hours and days at a time just trying to…
