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Entries from October 2007 ↓
true?
October 10th, 2007 — writing
FALSE!
October 10th, 2007 — writing
Priming the pump just doesn’t work well in the way that many blog tours are going about it. It may even damage the credibility of the participants by making it easier to see how everybody is saying the same thing.
We don’t want to look like a collection of zombie bloggers, right? Nobody likes zombies.
The possible exception may be the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. They like zombies, but that’s not what I mean. They also seem to have created some genre buzz that has legs. Although they promote a specific book or website each month, the tour seems to have created a loose community of bloggers interested in the same topic, rather than the same person.
A Short True/False Quiz about Blog Tours
October 10th, 2007 — writing
I promised a true-false reading comprehension quiz based on all the confusing blog stats from Monday. Don’t panic. It’s just three questions folks, and it only counts 80% of your six weeks grade.
Are you ready? Here we go!
THE BIG TRUE FALSE QUIZ ABOUT BLOG TOURS!
Directions: Read the questions and click on the correct answer. After you are done, exchange computers with your neighbor so he or she can check your work.
Innovative Spam Is Just Downright Offensive
October 10th, 2007 — writing
Help! I need advice.
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 Ten Commandments Get Viral
October 6th, 2007 — writing
Here’s an interesting viral campaign. I know they’re just trying to promote their movie, but this little quiz gets you thinking about biblical literacy and morality in general.
Are you game?
By the way, that’s my score on the FIRST TRY. Go me. Go me.
(Hat tip to Sam Hodges of DallasNews for this one.)
INFOBITS - Good Words Around the Net
October 5th, 2007 — writing
It’s been a rough week, but I thought I’d catalogue some of the more interesting infobits around the web.
Blogroll
October 3rd, 2007 — writing
I got tired of the never ending blogroll that grew in my sidebar. I’ve now switched to a google reader widget that will share my favorite posts as I read them. For those who prefer the traditional static list, though, here it is:
Friends
- Al Hsu
- Amy Goodyear
- Andre Yee
- Camy Tang
- Craver VII
- Dan Roloff
- Gordon Atkinson
- Karl Edwards
- L. L. Barkat
High Calling Writers
- Charles Foster Johnson
- Every Square Inch
- Hill Country Writer
- Howard Butt
- Mike McLoughlin
- Ramblin Dan
- Real Live Preacher
- Richard Mouw
- Scot McKnight
- Steve McCoy
- Tod Bolsinger
Writers
- Charity Singleton
- Get Religion
- Gina Conroy
- Greg Stielstra
- Image
- J. A. Konrath
- Jeff Gerke
- Mary DeMuth
- Michelle Sutton
- Naked Pastor
- Neil Gaiman
- Novel Journey
- Out of Ur
- Robert Bruce
- Seedlings in Stone
- Ted Gossard
- Tina Ann Forkner
Editors
- Camy Tang’s Story Sensei
- Design Your Writing Life
- Emdashery
- Michael Hyatt
- Rachelle Gardner
- Terry Whalin
Agents
Blogging Resources
- Brian Clark
- Chris Cree
- Darren Rowse
- Implications
- John Richardson
- Liz Strauss
- Marla Alupoaicei’s Leap of Faith
- Seth Godin
- Wayne Thomas Batson
- Web Tips
High Calling Blogs
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.
My Lunch with D. Michael Linsday and a Review of his Book, Faith in the Halls of Power
October 1st, 2007 — christianity, faith and work
Still “reporting†from the Religion Newswriter’s Association conference. (L.L., is this another serious post?) It is certainly longer than most of what I do here, but I hope readers will stay with me to the end.
On Thursday, I was included in a lunch with D. Michael Lindsay, author of the new book Faith in the Halls of Power.
The book came out today, and I wanted to be one of the first to review it. Let me be blunt. It’s great. Let me be hyperbolic. It’s a masterpiece.
