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3 Ways to Create Margin with Your Time
by Bethany Jett, @betjett Stressed? Overwhelmed? Spinning your wheels? When life gets too busy with looming deadlines and demands on my time, I tend to react in the one way that comes naturally. I hide. From life. Which incidentally, doesn’t work. Because in this game of hide-and-seek, life finds me…
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How to Add Text to Images with Canva
by Bethany Jett, @BetJett Images are all the rage these days, so whether you’re creating a featured image for your blog post or a meme for social media, the job needs to be done efficiently. This can easily be achieved using a photo editing app or software like PicMonkey or…
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Create Your Own Writer’s Fiscal Year
We’re one month in to 2017…how are your New Year’s resolutions holding up? They say it takes twenty-one days to start or break a habit, so we should have some analytics. Did we go to the gym three times per week? Have we stopped drinking soda? Are we meeting our writing…
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A Collection of Publishing Trends for 2017
by Bethany Jett, @BetJett There’s been a lot of chatter about trends in publishing, some of which is a little scary and perhaps controversial. For instance, a lot of my friends who write Christian fiction are concerned about sales and where the genre is headed as we see a decline…
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What Does Your Audience’s Audience Want?
by Bethany Jett, @BetJett When we’re writing a novel or nonfiction book, article, or blog post, we have one audience in mind: Our own. Yet the rules change when it comes to certain social media platforms…ahem, Twitter and Facebook. With those platforms, we need to consider what our audience’s audience…
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Ghostwriting and Collaborative Writing Q&A
Four years ago, I sat in Marti Pieper’s ghostwriting class at the Florida Christian Writers Conference, soaking in everything I could. How fun to write books for other people…and get paid for it! The pump was primed. Last year, when my agent presented me with an opportunity to collaborate with…
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