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In Your Time (A Writer’s Prayer)

By Bob Hostetleron June 30, 2021
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Heavenly Father, 
you make everything beautiful in your time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

I submit to your timing. 
I await your timing. 
I desire what you will, 
as you will, 
when you will. 

That goes for my writing, too.

I long to touch lives with my words … in your time.
I want to write passionately, effectively, impactfully … in your time.
I yearn to think and communicate clearly and sharply … in your time.
I pray to craft artful, beautiful words, sentences, and passages … in your time.
I ask for publication, for contracts, for endorsements, for readers, and for life-changing influence … in your time,

In Jesus’ name, amen.

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, Theology

To Comma or Not to Comma?

By Steve Laubeon June 28, 2021
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I came across this entry in Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. The book is a classic on punctuation. (Although based on British English usage, it is still a great book.) On his deathbed in April 1991, Graham Green corrected and signed a typed document which restricts access to his papers at Georgetown University. Or does it? The document, before correction, stated: “I, Graham Greene, …

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Category: Book Business, Contracts, Grammar, Language, SteveTag: commas, Grammar, Language, punctuation

Fun Fridays – June 25, 2021

By Steve Laubeon June 25, 2021
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Today’s video has over 100 musical movie clips pulled together to make a very fun expression of “I’m So Excited!” Shout the names of the dancers or the film as you see each one! (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)

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Category: Fun Fridays

Imagining Your Reader

By Dan Balowon June 24, 2021
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Most mass communication originates in solitude. Before delivering a public speech, pressing the Post button on a text-based article or blog, delivering an audio podcast or webinar, or taping a video, the creator of the material sits alone and ponders what they will communicate. During this alone time, a content creator should also be thinking of an audience. For authors, since you are rarely …

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Category: The Writing Life

The Back Cover Blurb

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon June 23, 2021
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Even in the age of online shopping, the back cover blurb is essential in helping a customer choose a book. When a reader decides between two books, the one with the best back cover copy often wins. When referring to the back cover, the reader wants to know the following: What does this book reveal? Why should I care? Nonfiction Of course, nonfiction covers a wide swath, including instructional, …

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Category: Book Proposals, Pitching, The Writing Life

How to Write the Last 50 Pages of Your Book with James Scott Bell

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on June 22, 2021
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“The first page of a book sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” –– American crime novelist Mickey Spillane When you write a novel, you want your readers to be so thrilled by the ending of your story that they immediately buy your next book.  And then they tell all their friends […]
You can listen to this episode How to Write the Last 50 Pages of Your Book with James Scott Bell on …

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How to Write the Last 50 Pages of Your Book with James Scott Bell

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on June 22, 2021
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“The first page of a book sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” –– American crime novelist Mickey Spillane When you write a novel, you want your readers to be so thrilled by the ending of your story that they immediately buy your next book.  And then they tell all their friends […]
You can listen to this episode How to Write the Last 50 Pages of Your Book with James Scott Bell on …

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Antitrust Issues and Big Tech in Publishing

By Steve Laubeon June 21, 2021
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On June 11, after a 16-month investigation into antitrust issues in the digital marketplace, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary introduced five bipartisan bills to the House seeking to curtail some of the business practices used by Big Tech companies. The companies in question are primarily Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Each bill has both a Republican and Democrat …

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Fun Fridays – June 18, 2021

By Steve Laubeon June 18, 2021
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Over 20 million people have watched today’s video since it was posted 10 days ago. If you’ve already seen it, watch it again. It’s a beautiful original song by a young woman battling cancer (three times in the last four years). This young lady, Jane Marczewski, sings under the name of Nightbirde. We have those in our small community who struggle with physical ailments, even …

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31 Ways to Pray for Your Writing

By Bob Hostetleron June 17, 2021
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I consider prayer to be an important—indispensable, even—part of the writing life. I’ve written about that here, in fact. I’ve also written and published 31-day prayer resources (here and here). So, I thought I’d offer here a 31-day prayer plan specifically for you and your writing. See how nice I am? (Pray for me.) 1          “Alpha and Omega, First …

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Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, The Writing Life, Theology
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