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Publicity - Everyone Needs It

Meet Katie Schroder Bond

My first grade teacher, Mrs. Nutt, was the first person, after my parents, whom I recall instilling in me a great love of stories—reading, writing, and telling them. At the start of that school year, we put on a little play for our classmates. Like most dramatic presentations aimed at over...

ACFW Happenings

ACFW's New Fiction Finder

Fiction Finder (http://www.fictionfinder.com) is a project of American Christian Fiction Writers developed to revolutionize the chore of finding Christian fiction among the millions of novels available.

Publisher's Corner

Strang Book Group

I read my first Christian historical romance in the 1970s when I was just a young girl. My parents let me choose a book on a visit to our nearest Christian bookstore, and I chose Not Regina by Christmas Carol Kauffman. I read it so many times the pages started falling out. The list of books I have...

Being a Christian Writer in a Changing World

Interesting Developments In The World Of Publishing

We are living in the end times. The wildly popular Left Behind series put this on everyone’s minds. But these books are a work of fiction, and believers have varying opinions on which parts of the story are true or not true, whether things will work as depicted or not. However we feel about it, most...

Agent Column

How To Create A Marketing Plan

I had a chance to sit down with a marketing specialist at the recent ACFW conference. This wasn’t just a publicist who knows a bit about the industry, but a marketing consultant who works with some top companies (Apple, Disney, HP, etc.) to design their marketing plans. His name is Jim, and he has a proven track record of success.