How to Use Public Speaking to Change Lives and Build Your Platform With Aurora Gregory
You can listen to this episode 043 How to Use Public Speaking to Change Lives and Build Your Platform With Aurora Gregory on Christian Publishing Show.
How to Use Public Speaking to Change Lives and Build Your Platform With Aurora Gregory
You can listen to this episode 043 How to Use Public Speaking to Change Lives and Build Your Platform With Aurora Gregory on Christian Publishing Show.
Last week I opened a can of worms, to use a cliché—and one should never use clichés, because they’re old hat. I asked some of my favorite authors (and clients, as it happens) whether they motivate themselves as writers with “carrots” (i.e., some kind of reward) or “sticks” (an external discipline of some kind). The responses were so many and varied—and enlightening—that I decided to follow that …
Today we are going to talk about promotional tours for your book and which works better, a blog tour or a podcast tour. We’ll also talk about why podcast tours are replacing blog tours and what to do about it. What is a blog tour? A blog tour is when you (or your marketing/PR person) schedule a series of blog posts about you and your book. These posts take a few forms: Author Interview – The …
Today we are going to talk about promotional tours for your book and which works better, a blog tour or a podcast tour. We’ll also talk about why podcast tours are replacing blog tours and what to do about it. What is a blog tour? A blog tour is when you (or your marketing/PR person) […]
You can listen to this episode 042 Why Podcast Tours are Replacing Blog Tours and What to do About it on …
Podcasting is here to stay. Here are seven reasons you should take it seriously as an author. 1. Podcasting Is a Tool of Bestselling Authors Here is a list of the 10 bestselling Christian authors for September 2019. (A Bible study of Lysa TerKeurst’s book is actually #9, so I edited the list to remove the repetition.) Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman …
Some writers motivate themselves with a “carrot” and others with a “stick.” That is, some use rewards for motivation (i.e., “a Snickers bar if I write 3,000 words today”) and others lean more on—for lack of a better term—punishments (“No soup for you!” Okay, that’s a Seinfeld reference, but I hope you get the gist). I asked some of my favorite authors and clients what works best for them. Here’s …
How can Christian authors sell their books through mainstream channels like Amazon and, even, to mainstream readers? With the close of Lifeway, more and more Christians are switching to mainstream retailers to buy Christian books. Joining us today to talk about this is Rob Eagar. Rob is a marketing consultant who has coached over 600 authors. He has helped both fiction and nonfiction books …
How to Sell Christian Books in a Mainstream World
You can listen to this episode 041 How to Sell Christian Books in a Mainstream World on Christian Publishing Show.
In 1931 S. R. Ranganathan proposed the Five Laws of Library Science. The theory behind the laws was to help define the principles of any library system. Today I would like to look at the first four of these laws and see how we can apply them to you as a writer. Books Are for Use I like to ask students if a book has any ministry value if it isn’t read. Of course, it doesn’t. And a book can’t be …
“Where do you get your ideas?” This question was reportedly posed to Stephen King at a writers conference in New England. His answer may seem harsh, but it’s illuminating: “If you have to ask, don’t become a writer.” Most working writers have little trouble coming up with ideas. In fact, most have more ideas for writing projects than they could possibly complete in a lifetime. Ideas can come from …