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Fun Fridays – December 21, 2018

By Steve Laubeon December 21, 2018
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Enjoy the unique performance of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” by Straight No Chaser. The video is their performance from twenty years ago!

May you have a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

[Our blog will take a two-week break and resume on January 7.]

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Category: Fun Fridays

Merry Christmas!

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon December 20, 2018
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 Tomorrow, December 21, is the feast day of Saint Thomas. Here is a suggested reading from The Book of Common Prayer: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and …

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Category: Inspiration

Do You Plan Your Reading?

By Bob Hostetleron December 19, 2018
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, of course, I mean the annual celebration of our Lord’s nativity, which is rich with meaning and blessing for me and my family. So, Merry Christmas! But there’s something else that makes this time of year wonderful to me: the joyful preparation of a reading plan for the coming year, which I do every year in late December and early January. That plan …

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Category: Reading

007 – The State of The Christian Fiction Kindle Market with Alex Newton

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on December 18, 2018
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Today we are going to talk about one of my favorite topics, data! Alex Newton, the CEO and Founder of K-Lytics.com a leading market research resource for authors and publishers or put in terms we care about his company and expertise helps authors sell more books, face less competition, and get a bigger return on the […]
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Category: The Writing Life

The Only Answer

By Steve Laubeon December 17, 2018
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Hope you had a blessed Christmas!

The last four weeks I have posted what was, in actuality, an Advent series. Note the key words in each post:
Wait
Prepare
Expect
Give
 The Christmas season is one that is full of family, fun, food, and friends. But under it all is the foundation of our joy. The answer to our greatest longing. Of course, saying there is an answer assumes there is a …

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Category: Agency, Christian, Faith, PersonalTag: Christian, Faith, Writing Craft

Fun Fridays – December 14, 2018

By Steve Laubeon December 14, 2018
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Listen to see how your favorite Christmas carols sound when put in a different key. Sometimes you can take your writing idea and come at it from a different direction and discover something completely new and yet still familiar!

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Lesson Two from Sailor Bob

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon December 13, 2018
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The fact that Sailor Bob didn’t know how to spell my name, Tammy, puzzled me. When we got home, I asked my mother why. “There is more than one way to spell Tammy.” This was a total shock to me. How could there be more than one way to spell Tammy? Many Southern women fell in love with the Tammy movies, so in the South, the name boasted immense popularity for at least thirty years. I went by Tammy …

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Category: Personal

4 Keys to Creativity

By Bob Hostetleron December 12, 2018
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Maybe you’re not one of those writers who sometimes says (or thinks), “I’m just not very creative.” But you may sometimes be jealous of others’ creativity. Or wish at times that you were more so. Join the club. We could all use at least a little more creativity in our lives, our thinking, and our writing. So, since my weekly “midrash” (Bible study) group has been discussing the first chapters of …

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Category: Craft, Creativity, Inspiration, The Writing Life

006 – Why Facebook is Overrated for Book Promotion

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on December 10, 2018
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This special episode of the Christian Publishing Show is a crossover with my other podcast Novel Marketing. While we talk about building a platform from time to time on this show, we talk about it almost every week on Novel Marketing. This topic of why Facebook is overrated is so important I wanted to share it on both shows. Important note: The notes below are an outline of what we …

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Category: Christian Publishing Show

006 – Why Facebook is Overrated for Book Promotion

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on December 10, 2018
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Facebook is overrated for building an author platform the following 8 reasons.
You can listen to this episode 006 – Why Facebook is Overrated for Book Promotion on Christian Publishing Show.

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Category: The Writing Life
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