Uncategorized Top 10 Reliable Signs: When Writing Is Your Gift by Cherie Trahan Do you remember how you first discovered your passion for writing? Better yet, when did you realize writing is your God-given gift? Was it revealed to…
Writing tips This Little Row of Books This little row of books holds the best stuff in the world for me. This writing, as a friend of mine once said about some writing she loved, “touches the…
Marketing tips The Alpha Audience I first introduced this concept in my book The Content Code. Alpha Audience refers to an elite circle of people – probably less than 2 percent of your entire social…
Publishing tips How Do I Find An Agent? - by Christopher Ferebee Whenever I am speaking at any form of writer's event, be it a Learning Community during the Q Conference, at Writer's Boot Camp or the Frederick Buechner Writer's…
Writing tips Stay Healthy Through Prayer Prayer and other spiritual disciplines can help creativity simply because they are helping the interior life stay healthy. - from "The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality…
Writing tips Unleash Your Creativity by S. D. Grimm Writing flash fiction is great for writers in general. Here are a few thoughts on why. Publishing Credit Flash Fiction stories are a real…
Writing tips Aborted Creativity Serves No One Writing for writing’s sake is marvelous so long as the writer isn’t in denial about his or her dreams. Most writers, whether we admit it or not, want our creations…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips How Do You Find Influencers? How do you find influencers who can make a difference to you? Here are five tips to find the people who are having an impact in your field: Use…
Uncategorized True Faith…. Do You Have It! - by Alfreda Branch Jones Faith, one of the most talked about words all over the world! Most people can quote the famous Hebrew 11: 1. Now faith is…
Writing tips Flash Fiction 101 By S.D. Grimm Fiction in a Flash In the simplest terms, flash fiction is a story in 1,000 words or less. Yep. A whole story—any genre—in less…
Writing tips The Basic Ingredient Genuine, openhearted engagement—what Brenda Ueland calls “interestingness”—is the basic ingredient of a fruitful creative process. Because of this, stories are essentially egalitarian in nature, meaning that each and every one…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips Be Proactive with Industry Leaders “No matter what topic you want to be known for, you should be proactive with industry leaders,” Aaron said. “You need to mingle with other influencers who can help you…
Marketing tips An Example of Influencer Marketing Groove, a company that provides help desk software, is a perfect example of executing an influencer strategy with precision. They were a start-up company with literally no audience— and…
Writing tips Top Shelf Books For those who are keeping score at home, these are the people who take up the most space on the top shelf in my hallway. A Belgian priest named Louis…
Publishing tips When to Self-Publish Today’s guest article is from Chris Ferebee of The Christopher Ferebee Agency. I'm often asked by both would be and published authors, if and when to consider self-publishing.…
Marketing tips From Weak Links to Strong Ones Here are five tips to transform your weak relational links into strong ones through networking: Keep a list of your most active audience members, by city. When you visit…
Publishing tips, Writing tips Writing and Publishing While Black Dr. Valerie R. Landfair Founder and President of Firstfruit Ministries, Inc. One cannot escape the ever-increasing articles, videos, and Twitter posts that highlight the racism faced by people…
Writing tips The Lamp Stays Lit My father seemed to have a knack for stumbling onto books by new writers, new voices. As his own family grew, his study was converted into a bedroom for me.…
Marketing tips The 3 Core Elements of Personal Branding Everything you say online—and everything you don’t say—contributes to the story about you that plays in people’s heads. While everyone has a personal brand, not everybody has a Heroic…
