• Advice Only a Mother Can Give: Writing Books of Guidance for All Children

    Take it from Mom; she knows best — “You probably should bring a jacket,” or “Don’t chew with your mouth open.” As an adult, you will find yourself speaking these same fateful sayings to your children, while giving the “I mean it” face when they refuse. The words of a mother are ones that each of us carries into life with a sense of apprehension at first, but gratefulness when the advice turns out to be needed. Many mothers like you may wish to impart these pearls of maternal wisdom in a published book for not just your sons and…

  • A Spiritual Mindset Towards Spring Cleaning

    Spring is in the air, if you didn’t already know, as you combat pollen allergies and realize your house hasn’t had a good cleaning since Christmas. Yet Spring Cleaning shouldn’t start with just cleaning the clutter from your house, office, car, wherever you reside. Begin your tidying up by spring-cleaning your spiritual life, which will lead to a more successful effort to removing the unnecessary clutter from your physical life. What better resource to find the tools for cleaning your life in a way God and Mr. Clean would approve than with the good book, the Bible? As with the…

  • A Woman Author by Trade, A Woman Author At Heart

    When it comes to encouragement, optimistic writers of faith are what move me most towards a positive mindset regarding life. Any book, including several from our beloved Xulon authors, that prompts more faith and trust in the Heavenly Father always push me, the voracious reader, to “gobble” up the literature and ingest its principles for future use in my life. However, it has become clear to me over the years of reading faith-based encouragement books that there is a definite difference between how women and men write tomes of encouragement. Men tend to write motivational books as more of an…