• Share Your Story

    Afraid to write your story? You are not alone.

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    It’s a new year and time to make it a point this year to write your story: yet that pesky monster of rejection is always looming over your shoulder, convincing you (and other authors) that your stories aren’t worth sharing with others. Regularly, I come across manuscripts where authors say they have struggled with whether to publish their books or not, mainly due to the fear of no one reading their stories. Our question though for these authors (and all authors for that matter) is; how do you know that your biography, your children’s book, your book on being a…

  • Visions

    Visions from God are worth publishing for the world to see

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    When visions occur in a person’s life, they can be an experience as simple as seeing a future event before it happens to visions that change the course of a person’s existence. Visions from God, especially those manifesting heaven and/or hell, can be revelations that will incite spiritual change within a person, possibly towards salvation and a relationship with the Heavenly Father. Celebrating that life-changing vision within the pages of a published testimony is one that can be meaningful, and also effective, in communicating to readers the importance of a connection with Jesus. However, understandably expressing this experience can be…

  • Book Search Optimization, Metadata

    Xulon’s Book Search Optimization / Metadata Service: Explained

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    Out of all the services that Xulon Press’s editorial department offers, there is no guessing which one is the most complicated to our authors. In fact, the average person probably doesn’t know what “metadata” or “search optimization” means. It probably sounds like a few technical terms that only a Google engineer could possibly understand, right? Wrong. It’s actually a pretty simple concept, if explained in layman’s terms and not technical terms. Xulon Press offers, for an additional fee, a “Book Search Optimization” service or what is sometimes referred to as a “metadata” service. Most people these days get a lot…