• Happy New Year from Xulon Press

    Let’s Set Some Goals for 2013

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    Every year at this time, lots of people are talking about making goals and resolutions for the New Year. Whether it’s to put an end to a bad habit, or kick-start a good one, it’s a wonderful time to be able to get refocused and have a fresh new start. I just love new beginnings! For me, I am choosing to restart a journey that I actually began back in September of this past year On September 5th, 2012, I decided to make some drastic changes in my life. I had just turned 49, and I was relishing that final,…

  • Xulon Press author Jack Hempfling

    Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight: Jack Hempfling

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    The first Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight of 2013 features Jack Hempfling, author of “Before You Go: Forty Days of Preparation for a Short Missions Trip: A Daily Devotional”. Pastor Jack is a lifelong cross cultural missionary who was on his way to help Hurricane Sandy victims in New Jersey when we started communicating for this interview. Pastor Jack is a man with a heart for missions, from his beginning in 1985 when he and his wife were called to the mission field of Denver, Colorado to learn from the leader of “Youth With A Mission”, Peter Warren. He and…

  • Xulon Press Author Papa Joe Bradford

    Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight: Joe Bradford

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    Our Christmas Edition of the Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight celebrates the inspiring story of Joe Bradford, affectionately called “Papa Joe”, whose book “A Walk Of Love” was the basis for the movie “Unconditional” which has been in wide release this past autumn in theaters across America. My wife and I went to see the movie, and we found it inspirational and heartfelt. After interviewing Papa Joe, I could see why the movie had such a following. He, like his movie, was a force to be reckoned with, through his testimony, his life and his words, all soft spoken and…

  • The Saga of the Lucky Lou

    Letters, Words, and Moments in Time: Xulon Press Honors Pearl Harbor Anniversary with Release of Book 70 Years in the Making

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    One year ago, before I became a full-time staff editor at Xulon Press, I received a call from someone on the Xulon acquisitions team asking if I would be interested in taking on a freelance project. The project, he explained, would be some combination of ghostwriting, line editing, manuscript development and material compilation. In the Land of the Editor, this basically meant that he had no earthly clue what this author actually needed. Enter Larry Fridley. Born July 26, 1924, in Hazel Green, West Virginia, he was a former sailor in the United States Navy, and one of the most…