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November 1, 2020
Choices
One of my favorite Authors Community stories in progress is the tale of a little rabbit, who, when tempted by juicy cabbages, playful friends AND a rabbitcycle in the driveway, manages to make the right choice every time. So, who does that? Not me, sorry to say. But the story—with its kindergartner-style inner conflict and …
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October 22, 2020
Do I need to create a budget for marketing my book
If you are an author, you are running a business. If you don’t believe this and don’t have a business plan, then you’re in trouble. “Tom, you’re starting off your blog post with a negative statement?” I don’t lie to my members- I won’t lie to you. This is your first obstacle. Trip or jump over it! Between …
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October 15, 2020
What it really takes to have a best selling book
One of the questions I am asked regularly is “do you guarantee you can sell my book.” The answer is always, “no.” Here is why. Your book must be a well written book. Has your book been through the process of a critique group? This is the first thing I was told when I went …
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October 3, 2020
Book Marketing vs Promotion – Is there a difference?
As first-time author, you have lots of questions. One of the biggest ones is always “How do I actually sell the book I’m writing?” If you’re like most people today, you turn to Google for help. On an initial search on Google, you pull up over 5 million answers to a very simple question, “How …
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As first-time author, you have lots of questions. One of ...
As first-time author, you have lots of questions. One of the biggest ones is always “How do Iactually sell the book I’m writing?”If you’re like most people today, you turn to Google for help. On an initial search on Google,you pull up over 5 million answers to a very simple question, “How do I market …
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September 23, 2020
Can you do everything to self-publish and promote your book?
These five words–I CAN DO IT MYSELF–are possibly, the most success sabotaging words for an author/writer in any language. They may sound like words of confidence and they very well may be—if they are spoken in reference to something within one’s core competency—a fundamental knowledge, ability, or expertise in a specific subject or skill set. …
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September 16, 2020
To Self Publish or Not to Self Publish
Making DecisionsAs citizens of the world, we have many decisions to make daily. As authors,we have many choices to consider on a regular basis. How do we make ourdecisions? “… do all to the glory of GOD” (1 Corinthians 10:31b) is a starting premise forthose of us who love the LORD and are called to …
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September 11, 2020
Who Are Your Tribe?
I was always one of those people who enjoys their own company, but also gets inspired and gains a sense of well-being when attending a social occasion with like-minded people. Everyone finds there are some people they just don’t understand or just don’t feel any connection to, and others they instantly click with and recognize …
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July 26, 2020
Spiritual Emphasis or Twist
I recently posted some blog items on social media that were, what I’d consider, hot topics today: on women speaking and leading in church and on the bride of Christ becoming ready for his return. (Hot topics are ideas or subjects that potentially lead to heated arguments if one is inclined to argue rather than
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July 21, 2020
Answering Our Call
I was reading a post I had written on LiveAsIf.org just now and tears started streaming again. Sometimes I read something I’ve written and wonder who stepped in my place to write that? Did I? The piece starts out like this: Gone With The Wind, Scarlett stands in the midst of a sea of bodies,
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