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Book Birthdays: 2024 Edition

By Dan Balowon February 1, 2024
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Significant books are published every year. Here’s a personally curated list that I hope sparks some good memories and honors the work of the past.

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, by Nabeel Qureshi (2014) – 10 years

New Morning Mercies, by Paul David Tripp (2014) – 10 years

Forgotten God, by Francis Chan (2009) – 15 years

The Hole in Our Gospel, by Richard Stearns (2009) – 15 years

90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (2004) – 20 years

Glorious Appearing (Left Behind series #12), by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye (2004) – 20 years

Heaven, by Randy Alcorn (2004) – 20 years

Love and Respect, by Emerson Eggerichs (2004) – 20 years

Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young (2004) – 20 years

Apollyon & Assassins (Left Behind Series #5 and #6), by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye (1999) – 25 years

The Bible Jesus Read, by Phillip Yancey (1999) – 25 years

She Said Yes, by Misty Bernall (1999) – 25 years

An Echo in the Darkness, by Francine Rivers (1994) – 30 years

Systematic Theology, by Wayne Grudem (1994) – 30 years

At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon (1994) – 30 years

Reasonable Faith, by William Lane Craig (1994) – 30 years

Piercing the Darkness, by Frank Peretti (1989) – 35 years

The Tale of Three Trees, by Angela Elwell Hunt (1989) – 35 years

Thru the Bible: Genesis to Revelation, by J. Vernon McGee (1984) – 40 years

Love Comes Softly, by Janette Oke (1979) – 45 years

Peace Child, by Don Richardson (1974) – 50 years

God’s Smuggler, by Brother Andrew (1964) – 60 years

The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, by JRR Tolkien (1954) – 70 years

Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon (1944) – 80 years

Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1939) – 85 years

The Life of Our Lord, by Charles Dickens (1934) – 90 years

The Omnibus of Crime, by Dorothy Sayers (1929) – 95 years

My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers (1924 in UK, 1934 in USA) – 100 years

Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton Porter (1909) – 115 years

 

And for really old books:

The Greatest Thing in the World, by Henry Drummond (1874) – 150 years

Abide in Christ, by Andrew Murray (1864) – 160 years

The Dark Night of the Soul, by John of the Cross (1584) – 440 years

The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine, by Eusebius (324) – 1700 years

 

 

 

 

 

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Words That Save Christmas

By Dan Balowon December 20, 2023
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I love Christmas and almost everything about it. I can’t wait until November 1 when I can “legally” start listening to the four different Christmas music channels I’ve curated on my Pandora subscription. Long ago I shifted my Christmas music preferences from the “White Christmas” category of seasonal songs to the music celebrating Christ’s birth and never looked back. One Christmas Eve many years …

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Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, Theology

Are You Sure You Want That Brand?

By Dan Balowon December 6, 2023
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Several years ago, I spoke with an aspiring Christian author who had several good book ideas on a wide range of projects for children to adults but, first, wanted to write about their lifelong struggle with a certain sin issue. Once it was published, they would move on with their life and be a beacon for biblical truth on all sorts of other projects. My initial reaction when they explained their …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Platform, The Writing Life

November 22, 1963

By Dan Balowon November 22, 2023
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Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the deaths of three well-known authors: US President John F. Kennedy (he wrote three books before becoming President), C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley. JFK was 46 years old when he was assassinated. In the car driving through Dallas that day, Texas Governor John Connally’s wife turned around and said, “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t …

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Category: Creativity, Encouragement, Inspiration

Title Attachment Disorder

By Dan Balowon November 7, 2023
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Hopefully, when the mental health industrial complex gets around to updating the DSM-5, they will have a section on “Book Title Attachment Disorder.” Symptoms of B-TAD are refusal to listen to reasonable alternatives, applying divine inspiration to a title, and extreme anxiety when someone who titles books as a profession wants to change it. Of course, I am joking. I think. Likely some deeper …

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Category: Book Proposals, Pitching, The Publishing Life, The Writing Life

Rejected Books

By Dan Balowon October 25, 2023
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With all the discussion about marketing platforms, some authors think the only thing standing in the way of being published successfully is the lack of a large-enough, personal promotional machine. It is important, along with several other items affecting whether a book is published by a traditional publisher; but there is one powerful item that is rarely discussed or mentioned. Sometimes books …

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Category: Pitching, Rejection, Theology

Interrupting God

By Dan Balowon October 11, 2023
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I find it humorous when someone brings up a list of questions that they would like to ask God face-to-face when they get a chance. It is funny because the statement assumes that we would have a back-and-forth discussion, as we insert “Yeah, but what about …” between his responses to our questions. If there is a heavenly Q&A opportunity, if indeed we could manage to pick ourselves off the …

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Category: Craft, The Writing Life, Theology

Finding an Audience

By Dan Balowon September 27, 2023
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Christian authors can find it challenging to determine an audience for their books, mainly because Christian books are aimed at something different than age ranges. Christian books are often aimed at a “psychographic,” rather than a demographic. This means Christian books are often aimed at readers who have certain values, beliefs, and lifestyles, rather than an age range of males or females. No …

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Category: Book Proposals, Get Published, Marketing, Pitching, The Publishing Life

It’s a Mad, Mad World

By Dan Balowon September 13, 2023
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If you have been part of this blog community for any length of time, you are bound to run across a history lesson. Today is one of those days. Sixty-five years ago was quite a time in the United States. On September 12, 1958, the United States Supreme Court ordered the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate racially. It was one of many civil rights-related court and …

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Category: Historical

The Heavenly Minded Author

By Dan Balowon August 30, 2023
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., was quite a guy. A prominent, influential physician and writer, his friends included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was born in 1809 and died in 1894. His son was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the …

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Category: Career, Christian, Theology
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