Another poem today.
Entries Tagged 'blogging' ↓
Practice Is an Art
November 13th, 2007 — podcast, poetry
Mark D. Roberts and I Will Be On Hugh Hewitt Today
November 9th, 2007 — godblogcon, podcast
First, Mark D. Roberts posted his notes from yesterday’s session on his site. The GodblogCon folks put Mark’s audio online as well. Here’s a full list of all audio files from GodblogCon, made available on the Scriptorium.)
Second, Hugh Hewitt invited us to be on his radio show this afternoon. (Mark has been on Hugh’s show several times, like yesterday, but this is a first for me!) We’re taping it at 1:30 PST, and it will go on the show later today. I think you’ll be able to stream it from his site this evening as well.
Are Blog Tours Helpful or Just “Hype”-ful?
November 6th, 2007 — CSFF, blogging, blogtour
I’ve been emailing Austin Boyd back and forth a bit this week about his blog tour, trying to get his impression of its value. He gave me permission to post his comments here on my blog.
To set the context, Austin Boyd’s book The Return was featured on the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour two months ago. (Go here to read my blog’s Page One review of the book from the tour.) Austin has a little bit of perspective on the event, and I asked him the hard question:
Now that the dust has settled on the CSFF blog tour, I’d be curious to hear how you felt about it.
What Have You Been Doing for Thirty Years?
October 30th, 2007 — blogtipping, thehighcalling.org
Mary has already traced this meme to the fifth generation. Impressive! I’m a delayed first generation post. The rules are self-explanatory, but you can read the details at Mary’s original post.
Quick: What were you doing ten, twenty and thirty years ago?
Do you want to know my answers?
We’re Looking for a Few Good Blogs!
October 11th, 2007 — blogging, thehighcalling.org
As long as it has taken us to get this blog network started, I could just as easily call this post “The Boy Who Cried Blog!” But you know, we wanted to get as many kinks worked out as possible.
Listen.
There is a time for everything under the sun. A time to blog, and a time to comment. A time to write code, and a time to write poetry. A time to build a network, and a time to launch a network.
This is a time to launch.
AND I NEED YOUR HELP.
Anatomy of a Blog Tour - Startling Stats from Mary DeMuth’s 6 Week Tour
October 8th, 2007 — blogging, blogtour, marketing, networking
Who knows where blog tours came from? They seem to be especially prevalent in the CBA, and I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make them work. It tain’t easy, folks.
If you are a writer looking to help the publisher sell your book, you need to read this post. If you are a blogger looking to see what social media can do, you need to read this post. If you are a publisher, looking to see how social media can help you sell books, you need to read this post.
THEN after you read the post, take the amazing TRUE FALSE TEST ABOUT BLOG TOURS!
The Death of Blogs? Let’s Not Be Melodramatic.
October 3rd, 2007 — blogging, writing
Just before he presented on blogging at the Religion Newswriter’s Association, Ted Olsen posted “The Death of Blogs” over at Christianity Today.
Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Emergents, Oh My!
September 29th, 2007 — christianity, responses
Oh dear. I didn’t realize I couldn’t be both evangelical and emerging. According to Out of Ur’s latest post, I have to choose one or the other. It sounds to me like David Fitch is talking about fundamentalism rather than evangelicalism.
Real Simple Syndication Made Simple
September 27th, 2007 — blogging, writing
Yesterday at the Religion Newswriter’s Association New Media preconference, Brian Peat created an RNAconference blog. He even gave us a homework assignment to login and write a post. (Sorry, Brian, my dog ate my password, but I left several comments and even a trackback.)
At some point, Brian started playing around to show everyone the neat tricks you can make a blog do.
Sit. Beg. Roll over. Aggregate this RSS feed from my Flickr account…
Oops. That last trick stumped a few people.
“What is RSS?” they asked.
Firefish: An Editor Evaluates the Whole Book Based on One Page
August 22nd, 2007 — CSFF, blogging, editing, fantasy
Here it is Wednesday, and I’m just now getting to the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour! My apologies to everyone for the weak showing this round. All that to say George Bryan Polivka’s The Legend of the Firefish looks awesome. He’s got a new blog, too.
I thought it would be fun to play acquisitions editor based on the first page. What if I got this first page as an unsolicited manuscript? What works? What questions does it raise?
