• Xulon Press Ask the Editor

    Scene One: Your Book and Poetry

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    Like a fluffy, well-placed ribbon cascading down a vase of fresh flowers, adding poetry into a manuscript is a small touch which adds a lot of beauty—if done correctly. If done incorrectly, it can clash with, distract from, or (worse) obliterate any view of the original masterpiece. How do you make sure that you’re using poetry in a way that enhances your book? Think theater: if your book was a play, poetry is used to set the stage for the audience. 1) Raising the Curtain. Poetry can be used as a dramatic introduction at the beginning of a chapter. Write…

  • Financing your book

    Now That My Book is Finished, How Do I Finance It?

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    We know that God helped you write your book and now He’ll help you finance it. Jeremiah 29:11 says that He knows the plans He has for you, plans of profit, for an expected end. That includes financing your first book! One of the hardest things to do is raise money. One possibility for financing publishing your book is to look for opportunities to use an established fund raising vehicle. Consider the benefits, then motivate yourself to go for it! I was introduced to kickstarter.com while watching RockCenter on NBC. They ran a piece on this benevolent team of Internet…

  • Xulon Press Ask the Editor

    Ask the Editor: Comma Conundrums Part I…When to Use a Semicolon

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    Let me take you back to an 8th grade English class. The teacher is saying something about commas, semicolons and conjunctions. You’re pretty much lost, spacing out a bit or writing a note to your crush three seats back. Why is it so hard to remember punctuation rules? It’s probably because technical terms are not the best way to have a long-lasting impact on pre-teens. Semicolons separate things, usually two main clauses that are closely related to each other, but could stand on their own as individual sentences. Many writers use them to add variety to the text after a…

  • Xulon Press author Kat Kerr

    Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight Follow-up: Kat Kerr’s Tips To Market Your Book

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    As promised in our most recent Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight, featuring world renowned minister and public speaker Kat Kerr, we present the “Top Ten Tips For New Authors To Market Your Book” that have been proven to be successful by Kat herself. She shares how she started from nothing but just a promise from Heaven and a dream of what could be, and she now speaks around the world and has published three books with Xulon Press. The three things that Kat said were mandatory for success: YOU are your BEST Marketing Agent! No one will want your book…