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Beginning in Jerusalem
through Successful Self-Publishing
Today's technology is making self-publishing a viable
alternative for many authors. There are many advantages but also some
disadvantages. Learn the pros and cons as well as cautions, costs, and steps
involved in producing a professional product.
90 minute workshop recorded
live at
Get Your Book in Print Seminar in Colorado
One tape album - $6.00
Also available (with handouts) if you order the entire
Get Your Book in Print Seminar. |
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Building Blocks to
Selling Your Book
Laying a Solid Foundation for Your Book
Do you have a book-length idea? Are you ready to write
it? Will it meet a need? Is your idea sharply focused? How can you determine
the best format for your idea? How can you keep abreast of trends and
research the market for potential publishers?
Writing a Green Light Book Proposal
Marketing can be more difficult than writing. Learn what
the editor needs to present your book to committee and how to package your
book proposal so that it will get a green light.
Two 90-minute workshops recorded
live at Colorado Christian Writers Seminar
Two tape album - $11.00
Also available (with handouts) if you order the entire
Get Your Book in Print Seminar.
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Called
to Minister
Writing to Help Others
You have a message that's burning within you, but how do
you effectively present it and get it in print? We'll look at seven
principles Jesus taught us by His example that we need to remember if we
want the words we write to touch hearts and change lives.
75minute workshop recorded
live at
Glorieta Christian Writers Conference
One tape album - $6.00
Also available (with handouts) if you order the entire
Get Your Book in Print Seminar. |
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Launching Your
Writing Ministry
Getting Started
Preparing yourself for a ministry that will touch
lives. An overview of the Christian market including the best opportunities.
(Some overlap with You Can Take the Pain Out of Marketing under Tapes on
Marketing.)
Idea to Published Manuscript
How to find, capture, organize, evaluate, and
sharpen your ideas. Making a good impression on an editor including proper
manuscript format and effective query and cover letters.
(Some overlap with Put Your Best Foot Forward under Tapes on Marketing.)
Making It Happen
How to effectively market
your work and make it happen by overcoming procrastination, dealing with the
D's (disappointment, doubt, discouragement), rising above rejection, and
prayerfully setting goals.
(Some overlap with You Can Take the Pain Out
of Marketing under Tapes on Marketing.)
Three 90 minute workshops
Three tape album - $16.00
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Your calling to encourage and motivate
Christian writers is a powerful one.
Candy Abbott - Georgetown DE |
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Put Your Best Foot
Forward
We all start a journey on one foot. To make a good
impression on an editor, start on your best foot by knowing - and respecting
- the editor's rights and learning how to effectively write cover and query
letters. Marlene's "Baker Dozen" of cover letter do's and don'ts include
humorous how-not-to examples.
60 minute workshop recorded
live at American Christian Writers Conference
Richmond, Virginia
One tape album - $6.00
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Spreading the Word
through Effective
Promotion
Regardless of how you publish your book, you must plan
ways to promote it. If you're seeking a royalty publisher, your plans for
promotion need to be part of your book proposal. If you're self-publishing,
you need a promotional/distribution plan (and dollars) before you go to
press. Learn how to expand the ministry of your book through careful
and prayerful planning.
90 minute workshop recorded
live at
Get Your Book in Print Seminar in Colorado
One tape in album - $6.00
Also available (with handouts) if you order the entire
Get Your Book in Print Seminar.
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Writing Daily Devotionals
My very first sale was to The Secret Place, a daily
devotional magazine. Since then I've written and sold hundreds of
devotionals and compiled and edited two devotionals books. Train yourself to
see, capture, and develop ideas into short (and salable) nuggets of truth.
Learn the do's and don'ts, types of formats, markets, and how to use an
economy of words to make a life-changing impact
75 minute workshop recorded
live at
Glorieta Christian Writers Conference
One tape in album - $6.00
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Writing from
Personal Experience
Writing the Personal
Experience Story
Seven essential elements of a personal experience story and pitfalls to
avoid.
Writing Your
Testimony
At some point, you're likely to be called upon to write or to give your
salvation testimony. Are you ready? Examine the key elements in the Apostle
Paul's testimony. Learn do's and don'ts.
Two 75-minute workshops recorded
live at
Heart of America Christian Writers Conference
Two tape album - $11.00
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You Can
Take the
Pain
Out of Marketing
Do you love to write but hate to market your work? Learn
how to effectively market your articles, stories, and poems to hundreds of
Christian periodicals..
Two 75 minute workshop
recorded live
at Sandy Cove Christian
Writers Conference
Two tape album - $11.00
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Get Your Book in Print
Seminar on Tape
Marlene's seminar marked an important
turning point
in my life and career. Her ability to inspire is unparalleled.
J. L. Hardesty - Steamboat
Springs, CO
Entire
six- hour seminar on five tapes
with over 25 handouts for only $23.95.
Individual tapes - $5.00 each
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Bible Study
$5.00
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How can you know God has called you to write a book? A Bible study on this
paramount issue for the Christian writer.
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Laying a Solid Foundation for Your Book
$5.00
Also available in 2-tape album, Building Blocks to
Selling Your Books. See above.
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Do you have a book-length idea? Are you ready to write it? Will it meet a need?
Is your idea sharply focused? How to choose the best format for your idea, keep
abreast of trends, and research the market for potential publishers.
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Green-Light Marketing
$5.00
Also available in 2-tape album, Building Blocks to
Selling Your Books. See above.
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Many worthy ideas never make it
through committee. Learn what the editor needs to present your book to committee and how to package it.
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Beginning in Jerusalem Through Self-Publishing
$5.00
Also available in an album. See above.
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Today many authors are choosing
to self-publish. Learn cautions, costs, and
how-to's for publishing books, booklets, pamphlets, and other products.
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Spreading the Word: Effective Promotion
$5.00
Also available in an album. See above.
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Regardless of how you publish your book, you must promote it. Learn what you can do, and how you can do it in a manner honoring to the Lord.
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Marlene, just thought you'd like to know that I have
recently signed my latest book contract,
a contract for a book of devotionals for teens
just at the start of a dating relationship.
When asked what prompted the publisher
to ask for my complete manuscript, the publisher wrote,
"The well crafted proposal you sent us resulted in us asking for a complete submission."
Since I learned the basic format for the proposal
from your book-writing seminar,
I thought you'd like the encouragement of knowing that
what you taught made a difference!
Emily Chase
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Write His Answer
Seminar on Tape
Thank you for the enthusiasm
and expertise in writing
you so passionately shared.
Your "Write His Answer" seminar
will be the standard
by which I will judge all future seminars.
Robert L. Kornegay, North Carolina
Entire
8-1/2 hour seminar on six tapes
with over 25 handouts for only $27.95.
Individual tapes - $5.00 each |
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Bible Studies
$5.00
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How can you know God has called me to write?
The challenge to "write His answer" from Habakkuk 2:2.
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Getting Started
$5.00
Also available in the 3-tape album, Launching Your Writing
Ministry. See above.
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Preparing yourself
for a ministry that will touch lives. An overview of the Christian market
including the best opportunities.
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Turning Personal Experiences Into Print
$5.00
Also available in the 2-tape album, Writing from Personal
Experience. See above.
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Seven essential
elements of a personal experience story and pitfalls to avoid. |
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Idea to Published
Manuscript
$5.00
Also available in the 3-tape album, Launching
Your Writing Ministry. See above.
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So you've got a
great idea, but what's next? How to find, capture, organize, evaluate, and
sharpen your ideas and make a good impression on an editor.
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Writing Manuscripts that Sell and Touch Lives
$5.00
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Regardless of how you publish your book, you must promote it. Learn what you can do, and how you can do it in a manner honoring to the Lord.
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Making It Happen
$5.00
Also available in the 3-tape album, Launching
Your Writing Ministry. See above.
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How to effectively
market your work and make it happen by overcoming procrastination, dealing
with the D's (disappointment, doubt, discouragement), rising above
rejection, and prayerfully setting goals. |
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Other Writing How-to
Tapes
Marlene has put in years of hard work in the
trenches and
packed each tape
with
concrete and usable information.
An intangible plus is
her warm voice of
encouragement, which has helped me,
and many another
lonely writer, through those pits of discouragement we all face.
Susan K.
Wright - Bridgeville, PA
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Called to "Write His Answer"
$5.00
God is
calling and equipping an army of writers to write His answer. In Habakkuk 2:1-3
He provides specific how-to’s along with needed encouragement. |
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Going & Growing Through the Hurts
$5.00
Jesus never promised it would be easy to
follow Him, but He has promised always to be with us. Biblical principles for those times that test and stretch our faith and later become grist for our writing mills. |
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Hooking
Your Readers from the Get-Go
$5.00
Learn how to write a first chapter (fiction and nonfiction)
that will keep your readers (including the acquisition's editor) turning
the pages. |
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How-to's for Critique Groups
$5.00
Being part of a critique group can be a
very positive or a very negative experience. How-to's for the person whose work is being critiqued and for the critiquers to insure that the critique experience builds up rather than tears down both the writer and his manuscript. |
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Organizing & Goal Setting
$5.00
Do you waste time hunting for things?
Do you miss opportunities because you're disorganized or because you
procrastinate? Help for creating or improving your work space, filing & record keeping systems, overcoming procrastination, and accomplishing your goals. |
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Overcoming Self-Doubts
$5.00
Self-doubts are a frequent companion of writers. You can overcome yours.
Study, with Marlene, principles from Scripture that will encourage you to set and reach goals. Put on God's armor and
be an overcomer. (Some overlap with "Making It Happen" in the Write His
Answer Seminar on tape.) |
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The Power of Story
$5.00
Key elements to developing page-turning
fiction. Developing your characters and plot. Creating scenes and
settings. Using dialogue effectively and resolving problems with
viewpoint.
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Recycling Used Into
New Sales
$5.00
How to recycle your ideas for new markets, new readers, new opportunities to touch lives:
the recycling procedure and mechanics, getting more mileage from your idea,
and tools to help you become more efficient.
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Teach Don't Preach
$5.00
How to handle God's Word responsibly and
write salable biblical teaching articles.
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Writing Devotional/Inspirational Books
$5.00
Learn how to find ideas, sharpen your focus
and develop your material to make an impact on your readers. Compilations
are discussed.
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See also
Craft & Writer's Life
Marketing, Publishing,
and Promotion
Writing Fiction
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