Publishing

29. Lessons from the New Normal

Leadership

As the saying goes,  “Time flies when we’re having fun.”  It is true.  It’s been forty days since I blogged about my leap from my full time job to a full time adventure as the founder and president of Vineworks Publishers. I haven’t been blogging much since then because, as you can imagine, I’ve been [...]

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Celebrating the First Week after the Leap!

Faith

After more than seven years, I have walked away from what most people would consider a dream job—a job that lent me countless opportunities to teach teachers how to teach with technology, to innovate and find solutions to educational, leadership, and productivity challenges, and to serve people whose first priority is to honor God through [...]

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Day 26: Call for Submissions = A Call for Action

31-Day Writing Challenge

Welcome to Day 26 of the 31 Day Story Challenge.  If you completed yesterday’s assignment — and the fact that you are back for more — means that you are ready to prepare a slice of your story to give it away.  A daily discipline of putting words on a page is great, but sooner [...]

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Day 15: Inspiration & the Subversive Act of Writing the Truth

31-Day Writing Challenge

Welcome to Day 15 of the 31 Day Writing Challenge and our writing sabbath, if you are arriving to this day of the challenge on a Sunday.  Today, you get a break from writing, but you get the following instead: A double dose of inspiration from Mary DeMuth, a talented and courageous Christian author whom [...]

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Five Email Mistakes Writers Make: A Recipe to Lose Readers

Platform

Beautiful San Diego buzzed with writers this weekend as the Christian Writers Guild Conference, the 21st Century Book Marketing Conference, and the Publishers and Writers of San Diego gathered at three different venues. Networking opportunities with fellow writers, editors, publishers, agents, and book marketing professionals will abound, so it’s safe to say that by next week [...]

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The New Leap for Writers

Platform

Welcome to the first official blog post of Social Media Strategy for Writers by Maria Keckler. It’s longer than I anticipated, but if you are willing to invest the 4.5 minutes that it will take you to read it, you may consider coming back and letting me help you. But before I go any further, [...]

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