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That just seemed like a good headline to tell you that I’m swamped with work for a few days. It’s all good but it means I must let GoodWordEditing lapse for a bit.

I love you all, and I’ll be back soon—with a very special FREE 24 page treat with NEVER BEFORE SEEN CONTENT. This SATURDAY (saturday… saturday… saturday…) 

I think you’ll like it. Stay tuned…

(I know all caps are a no-no, but they are my attempt to simulate the tracktor pull announcer voice in text. The fact that I have to tell you that suggests that it didn’t work so well.)

Monster Truck: Scarlet Bandit - Taken by Jot Powers, 10/2004

John Wesley over at Pick the Brain has 27 lessons he learned while growing his blog readership to 3000 in just six months. (That’s quite a bit higher than the conservative first run of medium-sized Christian Presses, by the way. Also, it’s higher than the subscription rate of many literary magazines.)

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Because that’s the purpose of a blog right? Just because we aren’t blogging for money, doesn’t mean the blogosphere doesn’t have its own economy with its own currency. Of course, it does.

You’re saying to yourself, “The economics of blogging? Yawn.”

But listen. This is really important. Economics is just the science of explaining how people get what they want.

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It’s that time finally! The January Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. Whooo Hoo. I’m pumped. I’m excited. I’m proud to be a geek.

In preparation for this month, Wayne Batson and I created a little podcast on the phone: Good Word Editing Podcast #3 - Interview With a “Righteous Fantasy” Author! It’s exciting just to type out the title.

There’s a special treat at the end for READERS when Wayne reads ”The Betrayal,” a powerful excerpt from The Door Within—with voices and everything. 

Wayne also talks about . . .

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