Learn how to become an organized writer featuring Susan May Warren
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The Writing Life
Never Burn a Bridge!
The sale of Thomas Nelson to HarperCollins and last week's sale of Heartsong to Harlequin brought to mind a critical piece of advice:
Never Burn a Bridge!
Ours is a small industry and both editors and authors move around with regularity. If you are in a business relationship and let your frustration boil into anger and ignite into rage...and let that go at someone in the publishing company, …
A Writer’s Prayer of Thanks
A Writer’s Prayer of Thanks Lord, Jesus, Logos, Living Word, thank you for the joy and privilege of being a writer. Thank you, a million times, thank you that I get to spend my days amid words and sentences and paragraphs that (mostly) cooperate and do my bidding. Thank you for the smell of pencil shavings, the elegance of a good fountain pen, the click-clack of ancient typewriter keys; for the …
051 A Christian Author’s Guide to the Homeschool Market
Apology: Sorry there was no episode last week. I was recovering from a trip to the ER. For many authors, the homeschool market seems like the promised land. Here is a market that buys millions of Christian books a year. It looks to many authors like how China looks to many international businesses. “Wow China has a billion customers. If we could reach only 1% of them with our product we would be …
051 A Christian Author’s Guide to the Homeschool Market
Learn how to market to homeschoolers
You can listen to this episode 051 A Christian Author’s Guide to the Homeschool Market on Christian Publishing Show.
What Were They Reading?
In attempting to declutter, I am culling my book collection. Parting with beloved tomes is one of the hardest parts of decluttering for me since I enjoy books so much! I’m keeping copies of all the books I’ve written and the many I have had the honor of representing. Because I tend to buy nearly every book that interests me, I have a massive stack to review. Re-reading bestsellers from the past …
Stop. Just Stop (Doing These Things)
All editors and agents have a few pet peeves. Some of us have more than a few. In my case, it’s a virtual menagerie. So, while you may want to keep my OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), ODD (oppositional defiant disorder), and OCC (overly cantankerous condition) in mind as you read, please consider the following list of “things you should stop doing immediately and forever” if you’re writing for …
Write Like Paul
Somerset Maugham wrote, “There is an impression abroad that everyone has it in him to write one book; but if by this is implied a good book the impression is false” (The Summing Up). Far be it from me to add to Maugham’s words, but I’m going to. So I guess it be not far from me, after all. I would say that many people (maybe not everyone) have a book in them, but relatively few have a marketable …
050 Between Contract and Launch – What it is like to have a book under contract
This is episode 50 of the Christian Publishing Show! And we have a special treat for you today. We’ve talked with a lot of bestselling authors on this show, but we’ve never talked much about what their first year is like. It is easy to get so focused on getting a book contract that you don’t realize what comes next. So that is what we are going to talk about today. Our guest today lives in …
050 Between Contract and Launch – What it is like to have a book under contract
Between Contract and Launch - What it is like to have a book under contract
You can listen to this episode 050 Between Contract and Launch – What it is like to have a book under contract on Christian Publishing Show.