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Are you struggling to market your book? This is the question that Kathi and her former Communicator Academy co-host, Michele Cushatt, tackle in Part 2 of their series about how to bake marketing into your book. Once you’ve figured out your proposal, it’s time to write and edit. Michele shares three key steps in this process:

• Intentionally inject catchy quotes as you edit to add a punch.
• Use stories that are both ordinary and extraordinary.
• Add elements for application.

Marketing is an important part of publishing, and with these three steps, you can start yourself off on the right path.

Click here to listen to Part 1 of this series, and sign up here to be notified when new episodes are released!

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Preorder your own copy of Michele Cushatt’s new book, A Faith That Will Not Fail, today.

Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don’t know what to do with it. We’ve tried to find hope and security in various people and places–but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something–or Someone–who won’t fail us when our world falls apart.

In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal, historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith, she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep compassion and practical insight as she guides you to:

• Practice lament and process grief without guilt or shame.
• Understand what keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth.
• Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis.
• Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for today and hope for tomorrow.
• Savor daily “faith-builder” practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s love and purposes for you, no matter what happens.

There is hope in your hardship and a God who is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him that will not fail.

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Are you overwhelmed or feeling lost when it comes to marketing your book? Then this episode is for you. Kathi sits down with Michele Cushatt to discuss the first steps of how to bake marketing into your book.

These steps include: • Determining what has worked in the past. • Assess what readers’ needs are and what they are looking for. • Pay attention to their language.

These simple tips will have a huge impact. If you enjoyed today's podcast, you won’t want to miss out next week as Kathi and Michele discuss Part 2.

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Inside Scoop: Sign up for the Writing Tips Newsletter at Writing at the Red House to get Kathi’s 7 Day Platform Plan for free.

Preorder your own copy of Michele Cushatt’s new book, A Faith That Will Not Fail, today.

Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don’t know what to do with it. We’ve tried to find hope and security in various people and places–but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something–or Someone–who won’t fail us when our world falls apart.

In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal, historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith, she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep compassion and practical insight as she guides you to:

• Practice lament and process grief without guilt or shame • Understand what keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth • Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis • Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for today and hope for tomorrow • Savor daily “faith-builder” practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s love and purposes for you, no matter what happens

There is hope in your hardship and a God who is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him that will not fail.

The post 334 When Your Public Self Needs to Go Private – How to Take a Platform Break Part 2 appeared first on Writing at the Red House.

In the last episode, Kathi sat down with Michele Cushatt to discuss the first step of how to take a break from your platform. Now, in Part 2, they are continuing their conversation to reveal the next four steps that Michele learned during her own platform break. These steps include:

• Establishing a timeline that makes sense for your why.
• Doing a brain dump of all your tasks and projects.
• Prioritizing what you can let go of and what you can keep.
• Communicating to those who need to know, including yourself.

Taking a break from your platform can feel overwhelming and scary, but with a little preparation, kindness, and your why, you can do it.

Click here to listen to Part 1 of this series, and sign up here to be notified when new episodes are released!

Inside Scoop: Sign up for the Writing Tips Newsletter at Writing at the Red House to get Kathi’s 7 Day Platform Plan for free.

Preorder your own copy of Michele Cushatt’s new book, A Faith That Will Not Fail, today.

Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don’t know what to do with it. We’ve tried to find hope and security in various people and places–but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something–or Someone–who won’t fail us when our world falls apart.

In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal, historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith, she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep compassion and practical insight as she guides you to:

• Practice lament and process grief without guilt or shame
• Understand what keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth
• Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis
• Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for today and hope for tomorrow
• Savor daily “faith-builder” practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s love and purposes for you, no matter what happens

There is hope in your hardship and a God who is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him that will not fail.

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Life can throw us curve balls, and if we are not careful, our platform can take over our life. In this episode, Kathi is sitting down with her friend and fellow author Michele Cushatt to discuss when taking a platform break is needed and steps to take that break.

Michele shares her first book launch experience, which occurred while she was battling cancer. She was led to write more books following Undone. Michele became overwhelmed and knew it was time for her own platform break. Listen in as she shares intimate parts of her story and the first step to taking your platform break.

• Why you need to take a platform break.
• Write it down and be clear.

Come back next week for Part 2 as Kathi and Michele discuss the next steps to taking a platform break. 

Sign up here to be notified when new episodes are released!

Inside Scoop: Sign up for the Writing Tips Newsletter at Writing at the Red House to get Kathi’s 7 Day Platform Plan for free.

Preorder your own copy of Michele Cushatt’s new book, A Faith That Will Not Fail, today.

Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don’t know what to do with it. We’ve tried to find hope and security in various people and places–but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something–or Someone–who won’t fail us when our world falls apart.

In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal, historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith, she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep compassion and practical insight as she guides you to:

• Practice lament and process grief without guilt or shame.
• Understand what keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth.
• Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis.
• Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for today and hope for tomorrow.
• Savor daily “faith-builder” practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s love and purposes for you, no matter what happens.

There is hope in your hardship and a God who is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him that will not fail.

The post 332 How to Get Your Confidence Back as a Writer appeared first on Writing at the Red House.

Have you been experiencing a crisis of confidence? If so, then this is the episode for you. Kathi is sitting down with her friend and fellow author Michele Cushatt to discuss how to regain your confidence after hitting a low point with your writing. 

Listen in and learn three ways to get your confidence back:

• Acknowledge and normalize what is happening.
• Take stock of how you speak and how you think.
• Focus on small wins.

Every writer is going to experience highs and lows. So, it’s important to know how to handle them so you can keep moving forward in the right direction.

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