How to Take Advantage of Peak Book Buying During Holidays We want to help you take advantage of peak book buying during holidays. Christmas book-buying has already started! So NOW is the time to get in front of your audience…
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Holiday Deadlines—How to Keep up with Them
Holiday Deadlines—How to Keep up with Them The November writer can find themselves overwhelmed in this incredibly busy and fun-filled month, but we still need to meet our deadlines! Over the holidays so much is going on. Bustling cooks are…
Why Every Author Needs to Make Encouraging Writing Friends
Have you ever been discouraged as an indie author? I need encouragement and have often struggled with finding the right friends. Over the years I have learned that having writing friends who are encouraging are paramount to an author’s success.
Three Steps the Christian Author Needs to Know to Market Books
So you’ve written a manuscript. Now how do you sell your book? Here are three steps you can take to market your book.
What A Writer’s Critique Group Can Do for You
Throughout my writer’s journey, I needed someone to talk shop with about book marketing, traditional publishing, and indie publishing. To help improve my writing, I decided to seek out and attend a writers’ critique group.
How to Write the Best Headline Possible
What is the most important part of your article or blog? The headline. So, learning how to write the best headline possible is essential. In fact, experienced copywriters will tell you that if you don’t get the headline right, the rest of your writing won’t really matter. Your headline is your first impression and determines if your reader will go any farther. By implementing a few proven steps, you can start writing the best headline possible.
What You Must Know When Building Your Press Kit
If you’re self-publishing a Christian book, there are some things—particularly as they relate to building your press kit for a media pitch—that you need to know. And if you’re doing your own publicity work, there may be no one around to tell them to you. I hope that’s where I can help.
Why Should Retailers Carry Books by Independent Authors?
Traditional publishing houses are diminishing. With the shortage, a plethora of smaller presses and publishers has erupted, along with an excellent selection of outstanding indie-published books.
You Don’t Have to Publish a Book to Be a Writer
Some people are in love with the idea of writing and visualize a life of leisure, sitting around typing out a few dozen book manuscripts and raking in the greenbacks (you can laugh now). Others have one story they feel the need to share, but they have no plans to pursue writing, and therefore, lack the drive to do what it takes to get published. However, many sincerely want to write but find writing a full-length book a daunting task. Or sadly, they finish their manuscript but are stonewalled by the thought of finding a publisher or self-publishing and then (gulp!) book marketing.
5 Plotting Tips for Aspiring Christian Fiction Authors
In my years of experience as a mystery author, writing coach, and education lead for the visual outlining software Plottr, I’ve found—like many others—that there are two main types of writers. There are writers who plot every aspect of their story, who are often called “story architects” or “story engineers”, and there are those who wing it the entire way, known as discovery writers or pantsers.
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