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by Guest Blogger Andrew Rafkin Many first-time authors attempt to get published by sending off hundreds of query letters to literary agents in hopes that one will be interested in representing him/her, and will promote their manuscript to big publishing houses for review, and hopefully a contract to publish their book. Meanwhile, they sit around waiting months for the dreaded rejection notices.  I [...]

by Guest Blogger Andrew Rafkin A new writer finishes his first book, confident that the manuscript is error free and complete. Now it’s time to get an agent, get the book published, and make a ton of money. So he or she writesa query letter, and sends or emails a couple of hundred to prospective agents. Then the rejectionletters come back, one stating that the fifteen [...]

by Guest Blogger Andrew Rafkin I just finished my next book Reaper 6, the true story of Staff Sergeant Larry FitzGerald, the leader of a thirty-man black ops team that was deployed to Vietnam in 1966. After three tours, and receiving eleven Purple Hearts, Larry returned to the States unable to adjust to our society, along with most of the veterans coming home from war.  What [...]

by Guest Blogger Ernest Clement Most of us here in America think of ourselves as the wealthiest nation on earth. Then why are so many of our citizens so impoverished? We have tens of millions of our citizens who are hungry. We have tens of millions of our young whoare not educated for the rigors of the twenty-first century. “Tens of millions” is [...]

by Guest Blogger Ernest Clement My book, which curiously enough I have named The Book of Ernest, has a lot to say about God, and for that reason can be very disconcerting for some people. This is also curious, because my first name is “Ernest,” and I have the same visceral distaste for anybody talking to me about [...]

by Guest Blogger Ernest Clement “Whoever teaches fear in any form does not know God.” The Book of Ernest, p.108 We are deluged from every quarter with “inside” information regarding global events about to unfold here in the year 2012, which does promise to be a year of unprecedented change. Is this the end of time, [...]

by Guest Blogger Jason Caston This week I was introduced to a new blog called @stickyjesus by a buddy who sent me their "8 ways to use your social networks to increase your church’s reach". I thought the article was great and to sum it up here are some of the great ways mentioned that [...]

by Guest Blogger Jason Caston Just last week I was asked about Pinterest and how it could be used for churches. I have been watching Pinterest, just as I watched Path, Color, Instagram, and other online software tools that seemed to be based on pictures. I initially thought Pinterest was going to just be another [...]

by Guest Blogger Jason Caston I was reading a great article over at SocialMediaToday.com and I came across an article titled "Who is Creating Social Media Content in Your Organization?" This article was written with a business focus but it had a great point that can apply to the social media strategies of ministries. There [...]

by Guest Blogger Cat Denison Hi, my name’s Cat, and I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine, Sam Murphy. Sam popped into my awareness a short while ago, and I’ve been enjoying watching her grow and develop into a very self-confident, adventuresome woman, with a lot of the independent attitude that I seem to [...]