Welcome to week five of the Christian Author Bootcamp! This is a ten week book promotion blitz created to help you whip your publicity plan into shape. This week your task is creating a speaking sheet. As an author you are most likely an expert in something. As an expert you have an opportunity to take part in speaking engagements that not only allow you to share your expertise but also to promote your book.
Remember to include a brief bio, information about your book, contact details and a few options for topics you are willing to approach. Here is an example of a speaking sheet for author Mimi K.
Welcome to week three of the Christian Author Bootcamp! This is a ten week book promotion blitz created to help you whip your publicity plan into shape. This week we’re taking on the task of writing a news release and distributing it to various media outlets. Watch the video and then find the links mentioned below.
Welcome to the second week of the Christian Author Bootcamp– a ten week book promotion blitz. We’ll be sharing free or low cost resources to help you whip your publicity plan into shape. This week we’re talking about joining the conversation.
Welcome to the first week of the Christian Author Bootcamp– a ten week book promotion blitz. We’ll be sharing free or low cost resources to help you whip your publicity plan into shape. This week we’re focusing on creating an online home base.
Christian Publishing Tips is excited to introduce the Christian Author Bootcamp, a ten-week book promotion blitz. Over the summer we’ll be handing out one assignment a week to help authors whip their book publicity into shape. Watch this video to get the details.
So don’t forget to come back here on Monday, June 21 for your first assignment in the 10-week Christian Author Bootcamp. For reminders on Twitter, be sure to follow @ChristianPubTip.
LifePoint Church in Greenville, South Carolina is launching a donation drive to help Christian charities currently serving in Haiti. Relatives of one of LifePoint’s members operate the Jean Cadet Restavek Foundation, a group that serves some of the estimated 300,000 Haitian children enslaved in child labor. The organization’s founder, a former Haitian slave, is currently in Haiti along with several other staffers working to bring relief to the poor people he serves in the wake of the recent earthquake. This donation drive will also support the First Haitian Evangelical Wesleyan Church in Mauldin which needs supplies to send to Haiti. To aid these organizations’ efforts, LifePoint Church is asking the Greenville community to donate the following:
Baby Food
Baby Formula
Non-perishable Food Items
Blankets
All donations may be dropped off at Christian publishing house Ambassador International, located at 427 Wade Hampton Blvd, on the corner of Chick Springs Road, across from CVS. Items will be collected from January 25 until February 5. Donations may be dropped off Monday through Friday between 9am-5pm or on Saturday from 10am-2pm.
This Sunday hundreds of Christian authors, publishers, literary agents, and retailers will descend on Denver, Colorado for the 60th annual International Christian Retail Show. While some wonder whether the show will be successful after the dismal showing at the Christian Book Expo last spring, most of the biggest names in Christian publishing will still be turning out for this annual event. For a complete list of those registered to attend visit ChristianRetailShow.com. Christian Publishing Tips will be there to bring you the news and highlights of the event. Visit CPT throughout July 12-15 for exclusive details of this year’s International Christian Retail Show.
When Brian Golter wrote his book Your Right Job Right Now, he had no idea how needed and timely it would be. His book, released this month by Ambassador International, is a survival guide for the new job market. It’s not only a great read for those on the job hunt, but also for those feeling like they’re not reaching the full potential God has in mind for them with their current job. Today Brian joins us to explain why he wrote the book, and how his mission changed as the economy changed.
**Keep reading for your chance to WIN Brian’s new book!**
When I wrote this book in 2008, I was writing to those rare individuals who wish to see their careers as an opportunity to transform themselves. To overcome their deep-rooted fears and inadequacies, and become the man or woman they had always dreamed of being. It was a book about turning fear into courage, mistrust into trust and inadequacy into confidence.
But as the saying goes, “that was then and this is now”. Since the time I completed this manuscript, we have entered into one of the most difficult job markets in modern history. This book is no longer for rare individuals. It has become a survival guide for the new job market. Understanding how to bring your absolute best to the job market is no longer a luxury. It has become a necessity.
The old rules simply no longer apply. If you’re looking for a job, it’s no longer enough to get on the computer, send out your resume and expect to get a job. The days of just “showing up” to the interview and getting an attractive offer are over.
Quite simply, if you are experiencing a lack of motivation, enthusiasm or confidence, you are not going to find the job you want. No, faking won’t help you either. In this market, employers have their choice of hundreds of candidates. Of course, they will eliminate people on the traditional criteria: by experience, skills and salary. But what most job seekers don’t realize is just how large a role expectations, confidence, risk-taking and attitude play in getting the job they want. They play a larger role than education and experience. This has always been true. Today’s serious candidates have to pay attention to those deep places in themselves: those places that determine how other people experience them. The days of covering up the real you and still getting what you want are slowly but surely coming to an end.
For those of you willing to do the work of overcoming your fears and inadequacies, there is a silver lining. And what a wonderful silver lining it is! It’s truly a new day in which you can reach for what you know is true and rewarding. A day in which you can no longer get away with, or be rewarded for, the very things you don’t like about yourself. A day when you can become the man or woman God designed you to be.
For those of you who refuse to take up this challenge, it could just be the death sentence of your career. It’s time to get real and dig deep. To use the adversity you are experiencing to become so honest with yourself, so humble, that you will get the right job, right now.
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Win a copy of Brian’s new book, Your Right Job Right Now. Simply leave a comment below for one entry. Tweet about our giveaway to be entered a second time, and blog about to be entered a whopping FIVE MORE TIMES! Sorry guys, but this giveaway is only open to US entries. A winner will be selected on June 12. Tell your friends!
We are developing a list of Christian publishing contacts that are on Twitter. We at Christian Publishing Tips love to connect with people on Twitter and we wanted to create a directory of those working in the Christian publishing industry including publishers, authors, literary agents, editors and bloggers. This is by no means a complete list! Please leave your information in a comment or contact us on Twitter (@ChristianPubTip) and let us know what category you would like to be listed under.
Christian Publishers
@AmbassadorIntl Tim Lowry, Ambassador International
@TakeRoot Noelle Mena
@MichaelHyatt Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson
@IsraelWayne Israel Wayne, Wisdom’s Gate
@GGoldSmith Gretchen Goldsmith, Rose Publishing
@StrangBookGroup
@millerisms56 Michael D. Miller, NavPress
@DiscoveryHouse Katy R. Pent, Discovery House Publishers
Authors
@alyssasaavant Alyssa Avant
@Brandilyn Brandilyn Collins
@ricky_spears Ricky Spears
@PaulWirth Paul Wirth
@TerryWhalin Terry Whalin
@DianeLHarris Diane L. Harris
@BobKellemen Bob Kellemen
@booksbyjanice Janice Thompson
@seedoflife Roney Smith
@Lucyannmoll Lucy Ann Moll
@orrin_woodward Orrin Woodward
@surrenderedscri Julie Arduini
@LawrenceWilson Lawrence Wilson
@KayArthur Kay Arthur
@sandycathcart Sandy Cathcart
@Darnyelle Darnyelle A. Jervey
@pfministries Paula Friedrichsen
@kathleenpopa Kathleen Popa
@latayne Latayne Scott
@BonnieGrove Bonnie Grove
@sharonksouza Sharon K. Souza
@pattihill Patti Hill
@Debbiethomas Debbie Fuller Thomas
@VeracityGroup group of authors of Inductive Student Bible Curriculum
In honor of our launch, we have set up the Christian Book Giveaway! Here’s your chance to win prizes valued at over $60! You could add several new titles to your Christian book library just by entering. Here’s how you do that:
1. Leave a comment. Be sure to include your name and e-mail address so we can reach you if you’re the winner.
2. Include your twitter address in a comment and start following Christian Publishing Tips on Twitter (@ChristianPubTip). If you’re the winner we’ll notify you through Twitter.
3. Spread the word about this giveaway. Leave us a comment with the link to your announcement or tell us how you spread the word. Make sure you include contact information in case you’re the winner.
4. Do all of these and you’ll be entered three times! Do two of them and you’ll be entered twice! Do one and you’ll be entered… once! We will conduct the drawing on February 1.
So what do you win? The first place winner will get their choice of three of the following new releases from Ambassador International. (The runner-up will win two books of their choice from the selection below.)
Esther: Reflections of an Unexpected Life
A remnant of Jews living in a heathen country . . .
A young orphan being raised by her God-fearing cousin . . .
A self absorbed king in search of a new queen . . .
A Jewish woman rising to the throne of Persia . . .
A book of the Bible which makes no mention to the name of God . . .
Random? Surprising? Chance? Maybe at first glance, but upon closer study of Esther’s life, you’ll find that nothing is unexpected to the God who knows the beginning from the end.
Through easily applicable Biblical truths, interwoven with personal and heartfelt stories, Jennifer brings a contemporary relevance to Esther’s extraordinary story. Join Esther on her journey to the throne of Persia and beyond. You’ll not only discover what powerful deeds God was able to accomplish through the unexpected turns that her life took — you’ll discover what He desires to do in the unexpected turns in your life today!
Knowing God Through Prayer
Knowing God through Prayer—the Plan Jesus Gave is a study of the world’s most famous prayer, the Lord’s Prayer (also known as the Model Prayer or Our Father), based on the premise that Jesus would not have told us to pray a prayer that didn’t work, but that each line of the prayer was meant to bring about answered prayer and real communication with God. Real-life examples of answered prayer illustrate the practical truths found in Jesus’ words. A Prayer Guide is included to “jump-start” the reader’s prayer life.
Songs of the Vineyard
This little book of meditations on Isaiah is about history: past, present, and future. It is about people, Jews and Gentiles, and it is about God and our relationship to Him. It is a book of judgment and apocalyptic themes as well as care and restoration. It is a book of facts and principles that can be applied to our lives. It is my hope and prayer that it will stimulate your heart, mind, and soul to seek out the Word of God to have an even closer relationship with Christ.
Time-Out for Tired Moms
Mom, Are You Tired?
Tired of Laundry!
Tired of Multi-tasking!
Tired of Boys Belching in the Backseat of Your Mini-Van!
Have you ever sent your kids to their rooms for a Time-Out and wondered…When is it MY TURN?! Well, Today it is finally Your Turn to GO TO YOUR ROOM! Time-Out for Tired Moms is a devotional that gives you the break from the chaos of kids that you rightfully deserve. Eight distinctive Time-Out categories highlight creative ways you can incorporate time-out into the everydayness of Mothering. Daily Devotionals lighten your load while drawing you closer to God, the true refresher of a Mother’s soul!
So sit back and enjoy!
Today Mom, it is finally Your Turn to GO TO YOUR ROOM!
Three Men of Destiny
They were a gallant and fearless trio of men, hewn from the same genealogical and cultural stick that was rooted back across the Atlantic Ocean in lowland Scotland and in north-east Ireland (the province of Ulster) a century and more before they were born as first American citizens in what was then the outer ring of the Western frontier.
The families of all three, folk with antecedents in lowland Scotland, had taken the arduous and dangerous passage across the Atlantic from Ulster in the mid-18th century in the daunting quest for freedom and a new life and opportunity in the American colonies.
How truly remarkable it was that from this momentous trail-blazing emigration journey, that within a very short period of time, the Jackson, Houston and Crockett names were being carved with enormous pride across this great expanse of land that stretches from sea to shining sea in the United States of America.
RT @newerakara: Looking forward 2 signing my new book, "Are You Keeping a Secret?" at booth 2121 (Winepress) Tues 9am at #ICRS! See u there! http://twitter.com/christianpubtip2010/06/29
RT @AngeStar: First full-I mean FULL-day of #icrshow & great 1! Meetings books etc.Must go to popcorn cart &see Like Dandelion Dust trailer. http://twitter.com/christianpubtip2010/06/29
This Sunday hundreds of Christian authors, publishers, literary agents, and retailers will descend on Denver, Colorado for the 60th annual International Christian Retail Show. While some wonder whether the show will be successful after the dismal showing at the 
