You don’t need a big following to sell a book. You need a clear book and a few credible ways for the right readers to find it. An audience helps. It is not a substitute for positioning a stranger can understand. Forget building a plan around becoming internet-famous. Build it around being findable by the people your book was written … Read More
How to Turn Sermons Into a Book Readers Can Use
Your sermon archive is not a book. It’s the raw material for one. If you’re a pastor, Bible teacher or ministry leader, you may be sitting on years of recorded teaching. That’s a genuine head start. But the people who heard you speak had something your future reader won’t: your voice in the room, the church calendar, last week’s message, … Read More
How to Write a Book by Talking Instead of Typing
If you can explain it over coffee, you can write it. And you don’t have to type it. If typing slows you down, you can write a book by talking instead. Record yourself teaching, answering questions, or telling your stories, then use transcription or voice-to-text tools to turn those recordings into raw manuscript material. Some people freeze at a blank … Read More
Is God Calling You to Write a Book? How to Know (and What to Do Next)
If you’ve found something that works — a way through grief, a way out of debt, a way back to God — and you can’t stop telling people about it, that’s usually the call. A calling to write is rarely a voice from heaven. It’s a burden plus an answer. Here’s the test I give every woman who asks me … Read More
Beta Readers vs. a Beta Group: Why I Tell New Authors to Skip Beta Readers
Beta readers are people you send your manuscript to for feedback before you publish. Unless you’re already a well-known author, it rarely works. Most never finish. The ones who do are polite instead of useful. A beta group works better. You teach your material live to real people before the book is published, you find out what actually helps them, … Read More