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Bruce Wilkinson to Keynote at Class Writer's Conference

April 15, 2010

By Karen Porter

Bruce Wilkinson has been recently announced as the Keynote Speaker for this year's  CLASS Christian Writers Conference. The conference will be held in Abiquiu, New Mexico, November 10-14, 2010.
 
One of the world's foremost Christian teachers, Bruce Wilkinson is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The Prayer of Jabez. His newest release is You Were Born for This. He is also the author of numerous other bestsellers, including A Life God Rewards, Secrets of the Vine, and The Dream Giver. Over the past three decades, Wilkinson has founded several global initiatives, including organizations that recruited and trained thousands of Americans to address hunger, AIDS, and poverty in Africa. Bruce and his wife, Darlene, have three children and six grandchildren.
 
The Writers Conference focuses on new and advanced writers, who will receive training in the craft of writing, learn marketing skills, meet with editors and publishers, and have the opportunity to grow spiritually and worship in the picturesque mountains of New Mexico.
 
Learn more about the Conference or register for the Conference by April 30, 2010, and be eligible to win an HP 210 Mini Computer (see website for details).
 
The Ghost Ranch, located near Santa Fe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, is an educational and retreat center. Georgia O'Keefe painted her legendary landscapes at the 21,000 acre ranch which is also home of world famous anthropology and paleontology museums.
 
For more info not covered on our Writer's conference page, contact us.

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April 15, 2010 | View or add comments

Sell More Fiction in 2010

January 10, 2010

By Rob Eagar

Enhance Your Author Website

Does your author website provide an environment for readers to experience your personality and story settings? Analyze your site to see fi these elements are included:

a. Use captivating images - Utilize artwork from your book covers and other pictures to express the exotic aspects of your stories. Give glimpses of the world created by your story.

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January 10, 2010 | View or add comments

Are You Hitting Your Goals?

September 8, 2009

By Tama Westman

I saw this tip from Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, while I was flipping through the pages of the October issue of Success Magazine (If you don't yet subscribe to Success, I encourage you to up your game today with this monthly issue of some of the best leadership advice going).

According to Hansen, you can create a life-goal list in as little as 15 minutes. Sounds easy. Here's how:

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September 8, 2009 | View or add comments

Promoting Your Work

September 3, 2009

By Evelyn W. Davison

Marketing professionals today spend years learning their trade and developing their skills. TV alone delivers millions of messages every day saying, "You can be beautiful, you can be wealthy, your can win, you can be powerful."

In the marketplace advertising for many is a lifeline. For others, it has little effect on success. It is like getting all dressed up with no place to go. 

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September 3, 2009 | View or add comments

The Bomb on Amazon: Does it Work?

August 4, 2009

By Julie Ferwerda

My second book is coming out in a few weeks, and I am all excited about testing out a potentially amazing publicity move. Book Bombing on Amazon. Can it work? Yes, it's tried and proved. Will it work for me? The answer is in the numbers...

How it works: I'm no expert (yet) on this and am learning as I go, but basically you pick a bomb date a couple weeks before your Amazon release date (you can set this). In my case, we have picked September 1^st as our bomb date, and September 10^th as our Amazon release date. This is because the bomb date is like a preorder date, and you can then figure out how many books need to be shipped to Amazon. If you try to guess, you could be way overstocked, and then you have to pay to have books returned to your warehouse, so this could get expensive.

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August 4, 2009 | View or add comments

Do I HAVE to Self-Promote?

September 20, 2008

By Julie Ferwerda

“God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. This isn’t just good theory. It is reality. I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue Gods’ calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.” Mark Batterson from “In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day.”

There are two kinds of communicators in this world—those who love the art of self-promotion (in the best sense of promoting their ministry with good intent) and those who don’t. I happen to fall into the second category.

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September 20, 2008 | View or add comments

3 Practical Approaches to Promotion

September 18, 2008

By Linda Goldfarb

I'm not known as a self-promoter. Actually, I would run from anything that hinted at self-promotion because I always believed, "it isn't the Christian thing to do", but I'm learning to move beyond that somewhat skewed mindset into a real heart-set of getting out God's message as He directs, what ever it takes.

Concerning promotion, I agree we need to present ourselves first as followers of Christ, giving Him the glory in all we do. But if we are not getting our message out there, then who are we sharing it with? I have prayed for God to bring people into my path who know more than I do, especially dealing with promotion and He has been faithful to provide them.

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September 18, 2008 | View or add comments

Moving on Up

September 8, 2008

By Evelyn W. Davison

Promotion! Is it good or bad? As an event planner, publisher and radio/TV producer, I am bombarded with “promotion.” Some good — some bad! So, what is the difference? Mr. Webster says this about the root word “promote.”

Promote:
· To exalt in station, rank or honor; to elevate; advance, as to promote pupils to a higher grade.
· To contribute to growth or development; to further.

Promoting and being promoted are two different things. It is better to be promoted than to have to promote yourself. Neither is easy.

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September 8, 2008 | View or add comments

Preparing for Media Moments

August 7, 2008

By Evelyn W. Davison

With a history of more than 25 years on the Love Talk Network doing radio and TV (producing and hosting and interviewing guests), and approaching 13 years of publishing the Good News Journal, I can count the bad interviews I have had on my fingers and toes.

Why is that? It is because I learned when I was nine years-old and ran my Dad’s radio station, that I had to work hard and not hog the show. My job was then and today is to get my guests ready and make them comfortable in Love Talking about themselves and sharing the Good News of God’s power, provision and protection.

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August 7, 2008 | View or add comments

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