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Career

A Matter of Experience

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon June 19, 2014
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Sad and happy

Sometimes I’ll have one of those days where I’m minding my own business, when I pick up the phone to discover the author on the other end of the line is irate. (No, this is not a rerun of an article from the 20th century. I do still have a land line for my office).

“Ohhh, Tamela! I know that Hell is indeed located on Earth and where is it? It’s at my publisher’s address! Here’s one of Satan’s minions now! I can feel the prongs of the pitchfork in my side! Flames are burning the bottom of my shoes! The smell of sulfur is so strong that no number of Yankee Candles can override it! Here comes another minion with a Molotov cocktail now! HEELLLP MEEEE!!!”

A half hour later, another incoming call:

“Tamela!!!!! My publisher is the world’s most awesome! Lookie! A unicorn! Stripey! And another one! With polka dots! Ohhh, they just sent a chocolate fountain! Do you hear the marching band? And I see a rainbow! Here comes the leprechaun with the map to the pot of gold now! WOWEEEEE!!!!”

As an author, you want to be with the second publisher, right?

Guess what? The two authors are talking about the same publisher. (Although I admit to a wee bit of dramatization.)

Both authors are telling the truth of their experience.

Your agent and other authors can tell you their experiences with each publishing house, but always know that your journey as an author will be different from anyone else’s. So it’s important not to envy the author who seems to be with a flawless publisher. And to partner with a great agent who can be with you whether you feel as though you’re on a luxury cruise or if you feel as though Jonah is by your side and the whale is in sight.

Your turn:

Are you where you want to be in your publishing journey?
When has your publishing house exceeded your expectations?
Have you heard disparate accounts about houses? Without revealing names, did you find this puzzling? Or not surprising?

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Category: Book Business, Career, Communication, Tamela, The Publishing LifeTag: Book Business, Career, publishing, The Publishing Life

My Secret Writer’s Tool

By Karen Ballon June 18, 2014
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Guest post by Jennifer Sienes Jennifer Sienes, one of Karen’s clients, is a talented fiction writer who according to editors has a gift for bringing out the emotional power of the scene. She was recently named as a finalist in the 2014 Genesis contest with her novel Redemption. You can find out more and read her blog at www.jennifersienes.com   I’ve been reading the Steve Laube Agency …

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Category: Career, Guest Post, The Writing LifeTag: Spouses, The Writing Life, Writing tools

And the Winner is…ME!

By Dan Balowon June 3, 2014
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Once upon a time, a man set out on the ocean in a small boat for a three-hour tour. The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, if not for the courage of the fearless crew (of one) the boat would have been lost. The boat landed on an uncharted island and the man was stranded, but alive. Twenty years later, a larger ship happened upon the island and noticed a beautifully built …

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Category: Career, Communication, Dan, Personal, TheologyTag: Career, Communication

Why You Shouldn’t Be Depressed by Facebook

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon May 29, 2014
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Lately I’ve been seeing articles about how some people find personal status updates on Facebook and other social media depressing. Apparently people put on their best “faces” so their lives seem better than yours. Most of these articles aren’t written from a Christian perspective, so they ignore the fact that most of us ask for prayer through social media. Truly, this is a …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Social Media, TamelaTag: Facebook, Social Media

The Seminar Test: A Simple Way to Discover if You Have a Viable Idea

By Dan Balowon May 20, 2014
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Today we are going to explore something I devised as a way to evaluate an opinion or approach to a particular issue. I came up with this method of determining message validity after years of hearing opinions expressed in media, business and even in the church. For lack of something more compelling, I title this method, The Seminar Test. The concept is simple. Take any strategy, opinion or approach …

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Category: Career, Creativity, Dan, Marketing, Writing CraftTag: Career, Marketing, Writing Craft

Myths of The Author Platform

By Dan Balowon May 13, 2014
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There are three myths about “Author Platform” that I want to address today.  Since I started my publishing career in marketing, I’ve seen the issue from a number of different angles and hopefully today’s post will be helpful. Myth #1 Author platform is a new issue in the last few years created by the use of social media.   There has never been a time when author platform was not important to …

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Category: Branding, Career, Dan, Get Published, Marketing, PlatformTag: Career, Marketing, Platform

The Paranoid’s Guide to Things That Are Out to Get You

By Dan Balowon May 6, 2014
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This is the second in a three-part series on attitudes, specifically for people in publishing, but probably applicable to just about anyone. Two months ago I addressed the issue of pessimism. Today, we’ll talk about the first cousin of pessimism…fear. If a book were to be written about fear, it would be the titled something along the lines of this blog-post. It would be a short volume with dozens …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Dan, TheologyTag: Career, Fear

The Writer’s Pod

By Karen Ballon April 30, 2014
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When I was at the Mount Hermon Writers’ Conference a week or so ago, I went to one of my all-time favorite places: The Santa Cruz Wharf. It’s one of the best places to see the sea lions, which are draped all over the pilings of the wharf, as well as swimming and playing in the water around it. A few years ago, I saw something I’d never seen before. A group of sea lions all floating together. Come …

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Category: Career, Communication, Conferences, Creativity, Karen, Platform, The Writing LifeTag: Community, Conferences, The Writing Life

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

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
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