What are those resources at the Team level? You’ll of course receive everything that is available at the Bleacher level. In addition, at the Team level, we’ll have: • A private members forum with leaders monitoring our discussion. • Advanced level Monday night teaching chats, with guest speakers like agents and editors, with the transcripts automatically emailed to all members. • A monthly writer’s challenge to hone your word-smithing, with prizes and public recognition on the blog, as well as blog publication. • We’ll have monthly seminars on all areas of the writing life, from career planning, to time management to writing craft and even industry advice. These will also be recorded and available to all Team members. • Included in the membership is a monthly coaching letter from Susan May Warren with specific teaching […]
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The Web of Purpose I sat on my deck sipping coffee as the sunrise ushered in a brand new day. A gentle breeze kissed my cheeks as mourning doves sang a love song. Suddenly, my eyes were drawn to the beginnings of a spider web. It glistened in the sunshine and dew dropped to the ground as the web swayed in the breeze. Already the eight-legged insect was hard at work. I sat with eyes fixed as he walked an exact number of steps in one direction, then turned and walked the exact same number of steps in another. All the while he secreted a sticky substance in his wake. Many times I thought the little creature would fall or get blown to the ground, but he seemed unaffected by […]
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Recently I asked the book therapy team for blogging ideas. The newly contract Lisa Jordan asked: “What about something for the debut author? Some of us are still a little foggy about what types of promotion work, how much of our advance to use for marketing, juggling different stages of book 1 while writing book 2, managing writing time while dealing with other life obligations–job, family, church, etc.” Great question, Lisa! In this ever changing world of publishing, e-books on the rise, the popularity of electronically self publishing, it seems the author has to be writer, promoter and marketer. When I was first published seven years ago, there were twitterings of an author spending half of their advance on promotion, but I thought those were just rumors. Heresay. What “one” […]
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Andrea Nell Saving Savannah Contemporary Romance What if a rescuer falls in love with the widowed husband of the woman she failed to save? Layla yearns to belong but wounds from her past have scarred deep. Luke couldn’t ask for a better nanny or friend than Layla, but Savannah needs a new mother. Layla must embrace God’s healing grace so she can win Luke’s heart before someone else claims her place in his family. http://andrea-michelle-wood.blogspot.com Casey Herringshaw Releasing Yesterday Women’s Fiction All Jenna Hutch wants is a chance at normal newlywed bliss. But a haunting past and the secret of an unborn child threaten to unravel the fragile hope she has placed in tomorrow. Jenna Hutch wants what every bride desires—a chance at happiness: a normal, loving bond with her […]
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