Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Today’s video is a long one (11 minutes) but is the perfect break from your busy day … to learn how this man folds amazing paper airplanes for world records.
You finished your Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. You finished NaNoWriMo (if you are a novelist). You deserve a break.
And by the way, at the 2:30 mark, the fellow has a book too. So he is a fellow author.
Enjoy!
When I was in grade school, a nosy neighbor decided my parents were too conservative, so she loaned me some of her old books by Helen Van Slyke. My parents let me read anything in book form, so we were good to go. Helen was a divorced New York City career woman with views unlike those I would encounter in my hometown. Today, as I cull my book collection, I am revisiting some of those titles with a …
I recently asked my editor and writer friends on Twitter and Facebook if public libraries are still relevant for writers (and by their reply to give me permission to quote them). Well, that opened a can of words (see what I did there?)—so many that I can’t use them all—but here are some of their responses: __________ Brooke Jones Keith said, “I research online but I take inspiration from …
Over the last ten years, I have worked with a lot of successful authors. From New York Times bestsellers to successful indies who are making small fortunes with their writing. One of the things nearly all of them have in common is a system of organization. They don’t all have the same system, but they all have something. In today’s episode, we are going to talk about how to stay organized, how to …
Learn how to become an organized writer featuring Susan May Warren
You can listen to this episode 052 The Joyfully Organized Writer with Susan May Warren on Christian Publishing Show.
The sale of Thomas Nelson to HarperCollins and last week's sale of Heartsong to Harlequin brought to mind a critical piece of advice:
Never Burn a Bridge!
Ours is a small industry and both editors and authors move around with regularity. If you are in a business relationship and let your frustration boil into anger and ignite into rage...and let that go at someone in the publishing company, …
Today is a big shopping day across the country. Argos, a UK-based retailer, starts it off with this fun video about shopping for the right gift. Too much fun!
A Writer’s Prayer of Thanks Lord, Jesus, Logos, Living Word, thank you for the joy and privilege of being a writer. Thank you, a million times, thank you that I get to spend my days amid words and sentences and paragraphs that (mostly) cooperate and do my bidding. Thank you for the smell of pencil shavings, the elegance of a good fountain pen, the click-clack of ancient typewriter keys; for the …
Apology: Sorry there was no episode last week. I was recovering from a trip to the ER. For many authors, the homeschool market seems like the promised land. Here is a market that buys millions of Christian books a year. It looks to many authors like how China looks to many international businesses. “Wow China has a billion customers. If we could reach only 1% of them with our product we would be …
Learn how to market to homeschoolers
You can listen to this episode 051 A Christian Author’s Guide to the Homeschool Market on Christian Publishing Show.
