No way! Has it really been nearly three months since I posted to this blog?! It has been a busy, busy but exciting summer. Let me fill you ...

Tomorrow is March 11, 2012. Ten years ago tomorrow my first book was published! I wrote Dear America: A Letter of Comfort and Hope to a Gr...

I'm still running to catch up with the Publishing Agreements that are coming in! What's taking so long? you ask. I was at the Colora...

Please click over to Nancy Sanders' blog today. There, you'll find an interview with me. Nancy asked me about my writing journey and...

Tomorrow I'll be interviewed on Nancy Sanders' blog. I'll post a link tomorrow. (It won't be active until then.) Besides hea...

You may have already heard the announcement Thomas Nelson, one of the largest Christian publishers, made the other day. In an announcement o...

The number three question of the 3 Big Questions after “Who is going to buy your book?” was this: 3. How are you going to reach them? You’ve...

The number two question of the 3 Big Questions I kept coming across as I studied how to sell things was this: 2. Who is going to buy your bo...

After my major epiphany about the problem with my book, I started looking to learn more about how to shape a book that will sell. At the beg...

If you read my recent posts about my misadventures of trying to sell my book idea to editors and agents at writer’s conferences, you may hav...

In my “Misadventure #1” post, I told you about a strange experience I had at a writer’s conference. Here’s the other: A few years ago I took...

In my last post, I told you the story of the author at a conference I attended who told me I’d done very well to sell 300 copies (at the tim...

So after this book decided it wouldn’t stay dead and it resurrected itself, I knew my first, best choice was to try to attract a traditional...

I’m amazed when I talk with an author who is so excited that they have a publishing company that wants to publish their book and, when I ask...

If you’re considering self-publishing, you need to make sure you understand the differences between that and traditional publishing. Here ar...

Some authors are soured with traditional publishers for many reasons, including the following: Cons: It’s hard to break in to traditional pu...

In the publishing business, it used to be that there were basically two kinds of publishers: “regular” publishers and “vanity” publishers. T...

When I had collected several excellent, heart-tugging stories that were just what I had envisioned for my book, it was time to begin thinkin...

After I made the monumental (at least to me) decision to resurrect this book, I evaluated what I needed to get started. First need: stories....

One day in early 2004 as I drove through Denver on my way to Salt Lake City, I pressed “seek” on my radio, searching for something interesti...