“Nutty with a Dash of Meat” Jeanette Levellie here with some tips to help you Shock the Clock and gain more writing time: Delight yourself in the Lord Put God first and He will collaborate with you to help you meet your goals. Do away with fear Progress in baby steps, and ask friends cover you in prayer with each new venture. De-clutter and de-junk Managing clutter is a huge time-eater. Give yourself permission to throw or give away. Enlist a friend’s help to de-junque.
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This is our archive pageTips from the Pros: Kathy Collard Miller
February greetings! I’m back again this week with another CAN encore interview from yet another author friend. Kathy and I were “online-only” sisters until we met in person just before the 2015 International Christian Retail Show in Orlando. I’m honored to host Kathy today and to present some of her hard-earned wisdom. Welcome, Kathy. Let’s get started right away. How many books do you have published? What are a few of your latest titles? I have 52 published books. Some of my latest include: Whispers of My Heart, Daughters of the King Bible Study Series; Never Ever be the Same: A New…
Authors, Do You Love What You Do?
Marketing Tips From Cheri Cowell This sounds like a strange question–do you love what you do? But if we are honest, and if we’ve done this for any length of time, there are times in our writing journey when we can say we’ve fallen out of love with what we do. We’ve grown weary. If I’m describing you, I want to tell you that you are not alone. Here are a few things I’ve learned about being in this place.
Nouns (A Prayer for Writers)
Bob Hostetler here, offering another prayer for writers: I use too many adjectives and adverbs as I write; I want the lift a good noun gives to help a phrase take flight, like dandelion, balustrade, and cricket, poppy, trough, and foghorn, meadow, cannonade, assassin, scythe, and toff, and more, I pray, from You who gave each item, object, thing, and every single noun I have to make my writing sing. _________________ Bob’s latest book is The Bard and the Bible, available via www.bardandbible.com or at fine Christian retailers everywhere.
Tips from the Pros: Pam Farrel
January greetings from warm, windy, but not-so-wintry Florida! Today, I have the privilege of sharing an interview with bestselling author and speaker Pam Farrel, a writer who also happens to be a friend. My husband and I have some fun memories of kayaking around Mission Bay in San Diego with the Farrels one sunny August afternoon. But I admired the Farrels first as writers and speakers who share heart-warming, life-changing truth. I know you’ll enjoy hearing from Pam today. Welcome, sweet friend! It’s good to “see” you again. How many books do you have published? What are a few of…
A Fresh Look at Success
On a Sunday afternoon, I moaned about my writing career to my best friend Nancy. While we washed dishes, I complained, “I’ve worked hard and published a lot, but I’m not well-known and am financially challenged. I love what I do, but sometimes I feel like a failure.” Nancy turned to me, a dish in hand, and said, “That’s totally beside the point. You’re using your gifting. It’s not about the fame or money. It’s about doing the work.” Nancy knows. She’s a lifetime pianist and her husband works as a composer. To keep afloat, they both teach…
Tips from the Pros: Jackie M. Johnson
Hello from Kevin Thompson in the abnormally warm south! A temperature of 81 in January is hot, even by Floridian standards. Something about high pressure blocking cold fronts from getting here…. Yay! The mosquitoes will be spared! Ugh. Well, it’s time for another edition of Tips from the Pros! And this go ’round, let’s welcome Jackie M. Johnson to the front porch. Hi, Jackie! Glad you could make it. So, tell us, how many books do you have published? What are a few of your latest titles? As an author and blogger, I write books and blog posts (mostly for…
Make Reasonable Resolutions
Hello from Kathy Collard Miller, writing from the beautiful desert near Palm Springs, California. It’s the New Year and I’m going to have to remember to write down 2017. And along with a new year often come the traditional resolutions. I’d like to encourage you to think a little differently about those. For instance, have you ever said things like: I’ll never get angry again. I’ll always show love toward that person who is unlovable. I’ll never be discontent again. I’ll always be joyful in every circumstance. I’ll have my devotions every day? It’s easy to think that such determination will…
Tips From the Pros – Encore Author, Tanya Stowe
Happy 2017 to you from a wintry Colorado. Davalynn Spencer here, pleased to warm up the morning with our encore-author guest, Tanya Stowe. Welcome back, Tanya. Please tell us how many books you now have published and the names of a few of your latest titles. I have fifteen novels and novellas published with two due out in the next months. My most recent romantic suspense is titled Santa Fe Sunrise. My novella, That Doggone Baby is due out in April and Falling Stars will be a part of White Rose Publishing’s Pure Amore line.
Build Your Brand Offline
Marketing Tips From Cheri Cowell So much is written today about having an online presence. And that is terrific advice. But we don’t want to forget that we need an offline presence as well. So here are a few things you don’t want to forget about when building your offline brand.