It’s officially the first full week of January 2020 and a lot of us have set resolutions of things that we hope to accomplish within this next year. Sadly, some studies have shown that only about 8% of people actually stick to those goals and complete them in that year. You get to the gym, […]
In 2010, about a year after we started our publishing company, a friend from Maine came to us with a situation. A good friend of hers had passed away after battling with a spinal muscular disease, and her one and only book had been poorly designed and manufactured. Because this novel was based on the […]
Writing a book is a big undertaking. Most newer authors will spend months to years preparing a manuscript for publishing. The more you write and become familiar with the process, the easier it normally gets and it can take less time. But no matter how seasoned of an author you are, there is something that […]
The following article is an excerpt from the section called “Before You Publish” that I wrote for my husband’s book, The Spirit-Led Publishing and Writing Handbook. This is something that we all have to die to when we are publishing. We have to keep our audience in mind, and not just what WE want! If […]
After working in the Christian book industry for ten years, there are some consistencies in writing mishaps that I have noticed coming from authors who are believers. Fortunately, these things can easily be avoided and I will explain how below. Don’t Use “Christianese” There are phrases and terms that we may commonly use in our […]
Have you ever started reading a book and after a while you needed a break from it? Most of the time it’s not because of the content; normally it’s a great story, message, or teaching. Usually it’s because it was physically hard to keep reading it to difficult to keep your attention focused on what […]
There is an extremely important part of a book that many authors either overlook or they don’t know how to do effectively. This area is so important that you can kill the sale of your book in 3 seconds if it’s not done right. What is it? Your back cover summary. Years ago when I […]
After working on hundreds of books, most of them by first-time authors, I have come to the conclusion that about 90-95% of the author’s manuscripts were guilty of plagiarism in their original form. So if you don’t understand how permissions for quoted materials work in a commercial product (like your book), you are most likely […]