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Fun Fridays – September 12, 2025

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Palindromes: A word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward. Like “we panic in a pew” … perfect for a Sunday sermon!

Weird Al, singing like Bob Dylan, performed an entire song whose lyrics are entirely composed of palindromes. It is one of those videos that you want to stop watching but can’t. Creative is one word. Strange is another. But it is all about word “play” which makes it perfect for Fun Friday!

[If you cannot view the video in your emailed newsletter, please visit the site itself where it is embedded.]

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Mistakes Writers Make in Their Queries

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I’m feeling a bit snarky today. The collection of unsolicited proposals, queries, and manuscripts is an unending source of delight and frustration. Delight when an amazing idea from an amazing writer arrives like a special holiday gift. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen as often as I would like. Instead, there is a litany of things authors do time and again. If writers would treat their …

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Origins of Labor Day

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Today, the US celebrates Labor Day as a national holiday. For many of us, it used to mark the end of summer and the day before the first day of school. But with many schools starting the year in August, that has been lost. I suspect few don’t know what Labor Day represents more than just a day to go shopping or simply a day off work. I found some material on the official US Department of …

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Fun Fridays – August 22, 2025

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A delightful book-centric video for you today! (Someone had waaaay too much time on their hands.) It was 44 years ago today that my wife and I were married. Happy Anniversary! Hope you enjoy today’s video as an homage to our many trips to a bookstore together. (If you can’t see the video in your newsletter feed, please click through to our site to view it.)

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New Book! 100 Prayers for Writers by Bob Hostetler

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You have enjoyed reading the prayers for writers that Bob writes on this blog, including one just a week and a half ago. Now you can have them all in one collection. (Yes, this is a shameful plug, not endorsed by Bob.) In cooperation with The Christian Writers Institute, the new book 100 Prayers for Writers will officially release tomorrow, August 19th (2025). This little 128-page book is designed …

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Fun Fridays – August 15, 2025

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Don’t tell me you haven’t done this with your own books. I’ll admit that after leaving a bookstore, my clients tend to have their books face-out. (I do not recommend moving books around! Publishers pay good money for product placement, and the poor booksellers have enough to worry about.) (If you can’t see the video in your newsletter feed, please click through to our site …

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Act Now! Revolutionary Words for Your Publishing Success

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Did that headline get your attention? It was intentional. There are two key words in it, act and now, that are trigger words to make you read what I have written. When the words revolutionary and success are added, it targets the readers of this blog. And to top it off, it was made personal by using the word your. It is possible to make this “revolutionary” keyword work in several …

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