• Young girl eating watermelon. Recipes and Cookbooks, send us your ideas.

    Calling All Authors with Recipes and Cookbooks!

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    I’m always anxious for the advent of summer and the wonderful things it brings with it: the musical hum of lawn sprinklers being turned on full-blast for children to run through; the lazy way that the sun starts to drag out each evening; the electric snap-crackle-pop of a thunderstorm as a universally welcome reprieve from the smoldering heat. I think I love the tastes and smells of summer just as much as the sights and sounds: family bbq’s, church luncheons and picnics come alive with lip-puckering homemade lemonade, sweet seedy watermelon and the spicy tang of bbq sauce on a…

  • Marketing your book

    A Marketing Map: Tools and Tips for Self-Published Authors

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    You have written your book, selected the cover, font style, worked with our crackerjack production and editorial team—even received your first copies of the book.  All of the sudden you’ve got that feeling in your stomach; you know the one where panic takes over, and you feel like you are dropping on a roller coaster?  You realize you have to actually sell your book!  At this point you are thinking, “The fun part was writing the book, now is the hard part,” or  “I don’t know how to sell a book!” I hear this all the time in self-publishing.  Relax!…

  • Mens Bible Study

    The “Recommendation Ripple Effect”

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    As the Sales Manager at Xulon Press, I love talking to authors about their books and helping them learn how to become successful as Christian authors. It’s not easy to go from an unknown writer to an author who is gaining notice and sales. The most important word that I teach new authors when it comes to getting their book to sell is the word Recommendation. When we track the journey of any new book that has become a best-seller, we always find that the book is being heavily recommended. How many books have you bought or read because someone…