I’m No Artist, But…

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. Okay, so I maybe putting the cart before the horse, but I believe in getting a head start when I can. I’m only about half finished with my third book (first draft!) and I’ve been considering cover art. Why? Because [...]

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Where Can You Sell Indie Audio Books?

Ahhhh. The sweet smell of success… or almost success. As some of you may remember, I’ve been diligently working on creating an audio book version of Simply Prayer. I’m happy to say that I’ve finished the recording and editing of it. Now comes the really hard part: deciding how to get it to the public. [...]

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Lulu vs CreateSpace: One Indie Author’s Perspective

In 2010 I used Lulu to publish my first book, Fear Not! Discovering God’s Promises For Our Lives. Then, this year (2011), I decided to give CreateSpace a try when I published Simply Prayer. Although the two POD’s are similar, there are some differences I thought others might like to know about before choosing one [...]

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Brave New World

What an awesome day! I have two exciting pieces of news for everyone: First, thanks to the hard work of Duolit, I now have a permanent web site with a secondary blog called One Servant’s Heart. I’ll be focusing on topics like prayer and meditation, as well as some light-hearted material on Christian fantasy. I [...]

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From Glimmers to Guts: 7 Steps to Self-Publishing

31 Days to Build a Better Blog, Day 2 — Write a list post with a killer headline. I sometimes wonder how other writers develop their books. Do they plan it all out from the beginning so nothing’s a surprise? Do they “fly by the seat of their pants” and just begin writing? Do they [...]

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Something To Be Said About Creativity

Writers, in general, are a very creative species. We must be to craft such wondrous worlds to draw readers in and keep them there. To that end, this writer has come up with a work around to Amazon’s lack of “Look Inside” to my book, Fear Not! I’ve put together a sample similar to what [...]

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Google Book Search Another Avenue to Reach Readers

A few weeks ago I signed up for Google Book Search as a way to help market Fear Not! Discovering God’s Promises for Our Lives. According to Ray Robinson of Dog Ear Publishing, “Authors involved in Google Book Search – all authors have this option – had sales far above the authors who chose NOT [...]

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Success Feels Like Failure

Last Sunday I had a wonderful thing happen in my absence at church. My mother (who is one of my biggest fans ) took my book to her Sunday school class and, for lack of a better description, “marketed” it. Before the class was over there was a volunteer to write up an article for [...]

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I’m No Artist, But…

Okay, so I maybe putting the cart before the horse, but I believe in getting a head start when I can. I’m only about half finished with my second book (first draft!) and I’ve been considering cover art. Why? Because you only get about 8 seconds to entice a prospective reader to take the time [...]

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Fear Not: Discovering God’s Promises available

I am so excited!  I just discovered my first book, a Bible study, is finally listed on Amazon.com.  Fear Not! Discovering God’s Promises For Our Lives was born from a need in my church for an adult VBS class that had no curriculum.  I spent two months putting it together and then an anxious seven [...]

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