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Official Blog of Author & Speaker Frank Viola. Digging below the surface and moving beyond the shallows in today's Christianity.
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I wish I had come across your blog a few weeks earlier. This is exactly what I was looking for. I have just published by first children’s book – What does God sound like? – A bedtime story about God’s love- A simple tale that introduces God to a young child in a gentle way.
Thank you for the blog and keep it coming…
I thought this article was brilliant. The next time I self publish a book I will attempt to do this. Thanks for the information. My book “Conversations with God” is moving slowly, even through Amazon.
I warned people about you. If they weren’t ready to get their Christan walk challenged, to NOT read your blog. Now I have to add, that if they don’t want to get their message out to the most people, to not read your blog either 😉
Thanks for the tips.
Good stuff Frank!
Thx. Derwin. Appreciate the visit and kind words, as always.
Frank — if you’re not careful you may give someone the impression you are interested not just in your own success in writing about and sharing the Good News but actually looking to share what you have learned to help others do the same 😉
I just want to offer some encouragement and say that this is a really wonderful thing to do. I am not an author but I enjoy writing music and I always find other’s songwriting methods very interesting and useful.
Thanks for “getting it,” Mike. Your words means a ton.
I’m neither of the above (author or blogger), but would still like to respond here by saying that…I’m finding that I’m not ‘buying books’ as I once did, but instead I read blogs and listen to podcasts, many of which often discuss recently published books! If i can get the jist of what the author is wanting to convey, through the podcast interview with them or the blogs discussion and/or interview, then that usually is enough. I realize, though, that for some (not you, Frank, as you graciously pointed out), selling books is their livelihood, so, in those cases, I try to be more sensitive and will add my support as led….@FrankViola Thanks for this “free but costly” resource!!!!
Indeed. I understand about not having time to read every book one wants. Though I think I speak for all authors when I say that hearing an interview, review, or podcast is not the same as reading the book being talked about. It’s comparable to listening to a single and reading the disc cover verses hearing the album. An album is the full body of work with all the details. Thus if an interview or review really grabs a person, they would do well to get the book and see the entire work. Just sayin’ . . .
Agree, Bro! 🙂
I read “Frank Viola: 25 Tips for Better Blogging” and want to thank you for the sound advice. I’ve been praying about switching blog subjects and finding a new theme, platform, and domain. (She said without really knowing what any of those words mean.) Your piece confirmed what I have been hearing and was written in such a way that even a blog-term-illiterate such as myself could understand. 😉