Amazing musical creation by Mike Tompkins doing a cover of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.” Every sound is from Mike.
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Rejuvenate!
By Tamela Hancock Murray
Of late, several popular Christian and secular bloggers have posted about unplugging for a time. I have enjoyed reading their ideas because I realize the importance of rebooting every once in awhile.
Years ago I read an article that said if being laid up with a broken ankle for six weeks sounded good to you, then you are too stressed out. At that moment, I knew I …
News You Can Use – September 4, 2012
Amazon Buys 1,000 Backlist titles from Dorchester - As expected Amazon won the bid for defunct publisher Dorchester. Add these to the 3,000 titles they bought from Avalon in July and you have a serious number of romance backlist titles to offer.
Jonah Lehrer's Plagarism Worse than Originally Thought - Charles Seife analyzes numerous "Wired" articles and the Lehrer's blog and discovers a …
Paid Book Reviews?
by Steve Laube You may have read or heard of the NY Times article where an author admitted to using a now-defunct service that wrote positive online reviews for a fee. Unfortunately I was not surprised. There have been many attempts to game the system over the years. One man bought thousands of his books in various locations to launch it onto the NY Times bestseller list (Read a report about it …
Covering the Cover Letter
This is the last installment of my proposal series. You may think it strange to write about the cover letter last, but usually, it's the last part of the proposal an author writes. Our own Steve Laube has already written about the cover letter here.
His tips are so wonderful that I asked him if I should even attempt this post, but he encouraged me to write from my perspective. So here are key …
What is Your Catalyst?
I loved reading your responses about your catalyst for writing. So may wonderful motivations and stories in the making. Now what I want you to do, is take a look at what you listed as your catalyst and go deeper. And then deeper. Peel back the layers until you find the heartbeat of what is driving you to write. Sometimes its what drives you to write one particular book. Sometimes you’ll find that …
News You Can Use – August 28, 2012
The Beloit College Mindset List for 2016 - Read it and weep. You are getting old. Admit it. For example, for the incoming college freshman (born in 1994), - "History has always had its own channel" and "Simba has always had trouble waiting to be King."
How to Create a Perfect Title - Calvin Miller and Rick Warren discussed this issue as it related to their sermons in this article from 1998's …
Fun Fridays – August 24, 2012
Poor Snoopy. He seems to always be rejected. I think I figured out why. See below.
What Snoopy didn't realize is that he was sending his material to this editor:
Read All About It! – The Back Cover Copy
When you consider purchasing a book, either in a store or online, what do you notice first? The front cover grabs your attention. Right? After that, you might flip inside to read the first few sentences of the book, and then venture to the back cover (online the back cover is displayed as the “Description”). Or you may go to the back cover before opening the book. Regardless, the back cover copy …
Some Days….You Gotta Laugh
Karen Ball
Some days…you just gotta let go of any hope of accomplishing what you want and laugh!
I’ve had a week and a half of days like that. I promise we’ll get back to catalyst next week, but today, let’s laugh together. I received the following from a writer friend, and all I can say is, “See why it’s so important to edit what you write??”
These sentences appeared in church …