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Fun Fridays – April 25, 2014

By Steve Laubeon April 25, 2014
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Clever. Funny. Entertaining. What a great performance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKezUd_xw20

Thanks to Dan Balow for the tip!

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Category: Fun Fridays, Steve

Success! Are You Ready?

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon April 24, 2014
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Recently one of our faithful readers asked, since there are so many blogs about handling failure, if I would write a blog on how to handle success. Here are a few of my thoughts, in no particular order: Once you are successful, prepare to… …be gracious. Whether you struggled for years to be published or if you’ve never heard the word “no” from an agent or editor, when …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Money, Platform, Tamela, Writing CraftTag: Career, Success

Generally Speaking, Think of Someone in Particular

By Dan Balowon April 22, 2014
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  Any mode of communication requires an audience to justify itself.  Even someone shouting on a street corner will have someone hear them, if even in passing. An audience of one only goes so far. While everyone talks to themselves, if you do it too much, you will end up talking to a psychiatrist.  However, there are benefits of talking to yourself. Comedian George Carlin once said, “The …

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Category: Branding, Communication, Dan, Platform, Writing CraftTag: Audience, Communication

A Forty Day Experiment with Music

By Steve Laubeon April 21, 2014
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by Steve Laube I tried something new this year. During the 40 days prior to Easter, also known as Lent, I chose to listen to one and only one CD while driving in my car. From March 5th to April 20th the only music playing was “Lent at Ephesus,” the #1 bestselling Classical Music album of the year. This means during that period I heard this music at least thirty times from start to …

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Category: Creativity, Personal, SteveTag: Creativity, music

It Takes a Committee

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon April 17, 2014
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One well-known and frustrating fact about seeing a book finally accepted is the looooooong process. Trust me, literary agents would like to see the process move faster, too. Believe it or not, the fact that at most large publishers, a proposal must go through several rounds of review before a contract is offered is actually good for the author. Yes, you read that right. It’s good for the …

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Category: Agency, Book Business, Career, Get Published, TamelaTag: Career, Editors, publishers

Stories in Hiding Places

By Dan Balowon April 15, 2014
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Since I blog on Tuesdays and the next April 15 to fall on a Tuesday is not for another eleven years, I felt like I couldn’t pass up this opportunity. Corrie ten Boom was born on this date in 1892 and died on this date in 1983.  If Evangelicals were in the habit of naming saints, she would be among them. For those unaware of this great Christian woman, she and her family helped many Jews escape the …

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Category: Book Review, Christian, Dan, Faith, Personal, Writing CraftTag: Book Review, Faith, publishing, Reading

Fun Fridays – April 11, 2014

By Steve Laubeon April 11, 2014
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English is a crazy language to be sure! It ought to be taught and read with careful enunciation.

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Why an In-the-Know Agent is Your Best Partner

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon April 10, 2014
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Even in the tightest market, new opportunities develop. Not only can authors keep up with these opportunities by being well-connected themselves, but this is just one part of your career where partnering with a great agent is key. Why? Because editors don’t always put out a call to every writers’ loop when they need proposals. Most don’t have time to become inundated with lots of …

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Category: Agents, Book Business, Book Proposals, Career, Communication, Get Published, TamelaTag: Agents, Career, Get Published

Writing That is Powerful, Not Preachy!

By Karen Ballon April 9, 2014
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  Thanks to Shirley Buxton for asking in the comments of my blog on writing that sings, “Can someone help me understand how to show spirituality without being preachy?” Why, yes, Shirley, I can. At least, I can tell you my perspective. It’s the difference between telling people how they ought to live, and showing them. It’s not spouting Scripture when someone is hurt or struggling, but coming …

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Category: Craft, Creativity, Karen, Writing CraftTag: Craft, show don't tell, Writing Craft

What About Medium Stuff?

By Dan Balowon April 8, 2014
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Today I stand in support of medium stuff. There is no argument that big important things deserve our undivided attention. There seems to be some disagreement over small stuff…do we sweat it or not? According to the Stan Jantz and Bruce Bickel’s book, God is in the Small Stuff, we probably need to be paying close attention to those things. I am concerned with those things in the middle…the medium …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Dan, The Publishing LifeTag: Book Business, publishing, The Publishing Life
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