I’ve got an extra treat for you this month. Author Jennifer Slattery, whose books include Beyond I Do, When Dawn Breaks, and now her newest release Intertwined, has stopped by for an interview. Jennifer writes soul-stirring fiction for New Hope Publishers, a publishing house passionate about bringing God’s healing grace and truth to the hopeless. She…
Have you ever said to yourself “who wants to read what I have to write?” Maybe you hear those niggling words in your head everyday? Once a month? Maybe it’s just once in awhile, but even that is more often than you want to hear them. I’ve been battling those particular words since I started…
Every once in a while, something comes along that changes things for the better. We all know just how much sweat, courage, and persistence it takes to write a book and then release it into the world. So having the right tools at our fingertips is wonderful. Today I’m pointing you toward a new website…
When it comes to marketing strategy, I’m a babe barely out of the cradle. What I know today I’ve learned by reading articles and by the mistakes I’ve made marketing my own books. I wish I could tell you my efforts to market Carried by Grace have been a wild success—they haven’t. What I can…
What book on the craft of writing has been the most helpful to you? I recently asked that question on my Facebook author page, but no one left an answer. So I have to wonder if I’m wasting my time with today’s post. But maybe it was a question that required too much thought. Or…
Scrivener, Scrivener, Scrivener. You’ve been hearing about it from a lot of writers, including me. In fact, I recently taught a workshop on using Scrivener at the Called to Write conference in Pittsburg, Kansas. You may be wondering what’s so terrific about this software and why you should consider using it. So let’s take a…
Do you dream of getting published? What writer doesn’t? But in their excitement and exuberance of completing a manuscript writers often make these 3 crippling mistakes when submitting their manuscripts to publishers. The No. 1 Mistake They don’t include a book proposal. The book proposal is
How much thought do you give to point of view (POV) as you begin a new story? The best POV for your story is not always the protagonist or even the antagonist. Consider how different the book To Kill a Mockingbird would have been if told from Atticus’ POV. Or Gone with the Wind from…