And the winners are . . . Pamela Mattox & Debbie Hyde! Congratulations, and Cinco de Mayo! Email me your address, or your email address, and we will get your cards to you soon. You can email me at [email protected]. Thanks to all who participated. We had a lot of fun with this and plan […]
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$100 Giveaway! Two Chances to Win! To celebrate our 100th post on The Lucid Blog, we are going to give away a $100 Amazon Giftcard! All you have to do in order to win is comment on this post. Next week on Cinco de Mayo, we will randomly select a winner and the giftcard is
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Speed reading can change the way you research, evaluate, and how you read for pleasure. Contrary to popular belief, comprehension increases when you read faster. I read How To Read a Book a few years ago, and there are a few tips in that book that have stuck with me and helped me to read
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One of the most frustrating things for readers and writers is forgetting where a quote came from. I hate it when I remember a great quote, but can’t remember which book it is from. After flipping through a few books and searching for it online, I often give up. Enter Evernote. I first read about
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1. Purchase a copy of the Writer’s Market Guide that is appropriate for you book. This is the best way to sort through the many awards available, as well as the periodicals that may be interested in reviewing your work. Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2011 2011 Children’s Writer’s And Illustrator’s Market 2011 Novel And Short
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Book marketing has changed over the last decade. Now more then ever authors are involved in marketing their books. Publishers can pull out all the stops to make first-time authors true success stories, but the author’s involvement is the most important piece of the marketing puzzle. Authors who are interested in publishing with Lucid Books
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Creativity is considered a gift from above; some people have it, some don’t. My goal is to help people rethink what creativity is, how it works, and how you can apply it to writing your books. 1. Creativity is not just a gift. It is an acquired skill. The sooner that you accept this the better.
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Robert Farrar Capon is an Episcopal priest and has authored more than 20 books. While I often don’t agree with his conclusions, he is better at putting words on a page than any other Christian author I’ve read since C.S. Lewis. I read The Foolishness of Preaching recently and Capon shares some of his tricks of the
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Lucid Books has just inked a deal with John Bisagno, former pastor of First Baptist Houston, to publish and promote his new book coming out early next year on the subject of love and marriage. I have had the chance to read parts of the book already and am very excited about it – it
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