Book Video Trailers

The Origin - Love Starts with Elle

Sitting in my office one night, I mused over ideas on how to promote my new Thomas Nelson release, Love Starts with Elle.

I had a few things already in place, like blog tours and more bookmarks than I could...

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ACFW Happenings

What Makes ACFW Membership So Special?

• Main Loop: Easy to use and communicate about all writing-related topics, you can glean and share amazing tidbits via email. This loop is an education itself.

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Heard It Through Hartline

Publishing In Today's Economy

The last time I wrote this column I had just finished working up and presenting the program on “Publishing in Today’s Economy.” Next week I have to give it again at the North Texas Writer’s Organization (NETWO) at Lake Shiloh, Texas, so I’m pulling my thoughts together on it again.

In case you have been sequestered for months in a mountain cabin away from all media, finishing up that manuscript on deadline, we’ve had a little financial situation crop up. Everybody started pointing fingers...

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Gotta Get It!?

Talkin’ ’Bout My GG-GENRE-ration

Sorry, couldn’t help it. Seemed appropriate for the romance genre. . . .

Yeah, I know, but you try to figure out a clever title for genre.

Genre—a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like (dictionary.com).

Hmm. I tell ya, I love these definitions. I wish someone would list where the definitions to the definitions are. It’s understandable, but, yikes, is it stuffy, or what?

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Publisher's Corner

Heartsong Presents

I wonder how many writers have perused the guidelines for writing a Heartsong Presents novel and scoffed at some of our strict rules and limitations on things like drinking, language, dancing, divorce, immodest dress, passion, and sticky spiritual topics. We certainly aren’t a publisher of “edgy” Christian fiction. Nor are we a legalistic bunch of prudes. We just believe in the basics of our guidelines: “The main element of a Heartsong Presents inspirational romance is the sweet love story. 

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Publicity - Everyone Needs It

In House Publicist For Books & Such

I first discovered my love of books when, at the age of four, I stumbled upon my grandmother’s leather-bound set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Letters became words, and words became stories of far-away places and interesting people. Eventually I learned that my love of story could carry me off to places far beyond my small East Texas town. Then I hit the road for real, earning a degree in Marketing from Texas A&M before setting off to such locales as Jakarta, Tokyo, Bali, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Singapore. 

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