Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
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.
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In speaking with authors and receiving proposals, I often learn that authors WILL: Establish a website Find endorsers Start a newsletter Start a blog Line up speaking engagements Hop on social media These plans are great. Unfortunately, they are plans. They are not what is already in place to show a publisher how the author will be a partner in selling the book. We prefer to: Visit an author …
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 …
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 …
In the classic 1999 movie comedy Office Space, there are many memorable lines, such as, “The people to cake ratio is too big,” describing an office party, and “Yeah, I’m going to need you to …” sentence starter for anything the boss wants, to my favorite, delivered by one of the consultants tasked with finding inefficiencies, “What is it you do here?” I have thought of asking that question any …
Have you ever walked from one room in your house to the next, then wondered what you were there for? Yeah. Me too. I do remember that I’d gone there for a specific reason—only to find my mind completely blank. Why did I come in here? I find that happens occasionally when I’m writing and all of a sudden I can’t remember what color eyes I’d given my recurring police chief …
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 …
Today’s video is for all the science geeks in the room. The periodic table, sung in numerical order, plus examples of each element as well! {If the video is not embedded in your email, click through to the site itself to view.]
Self Doubt ___________ Who am I, Lord, that I think I can write, that I have anything to say, that I can speak sometimes for you? I have a middling brain, at best, and some education, but the longer I live, the less I know, it seems. I can be lazy, thick-headed, shortsighted, and careless. There are so many others who seem so much brighter and bolder, so much more inspired and insightful than I …
In 2015, Brad Martin, the President and CEO of Penguin Random House Canada, was quoted as saying the following: “I’m not interested in a book that is going to generate less than $100,000 in revenue unless the editor or publisher [division] has a compelling vision for the book and/or the author…If the person that’s championing that book in the acquisitions meeting doesn’t have a compelling view of …
