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The First-Time Author's Survival Guide
The First-Time Author's Survival Guide
Everything You Need to Know about Publishing Your Book . . .But Don't Know to Ask
Finally! Reliable answers to your many questions about publishing your book. Written by best-selling author, managing editor, and publisher Mary Hollingsworth, this book contains 15 short, easily digestible, author-to-author chapters covering all the basics of successfully navigating the complicated and confusing road to publication.
This guide should be on every author's shelf, whether you're a first-time or miulti-published author. It's also a perfect gift for a friend or family member who aspires to publish their book.
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208 pages
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The Publishing Dictionary
An Informal, Easy-to-Understsand Reference
It's a fact: today's publishing world is complicated and technical. The biggest challenge for newcomers trying to navigat the publishing industry, or even for those who work in it every day, is to learn the special language spoken by publishing professionals.
The Publishing Dictionary has these features:
- More than 350 publishing terms and phrases
- Cross-refernced entries
- Terms and phrases specific to Christian publishing
- Definitions in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language
- A brief history of publishing
An invaluable, must-have tool!
Get your copy today and learn to speak publishing as a pro!
The Publishing Dictionary
Fulfilled: The NIV Devotional Bible
for the Single Woman
Mary Hollingsworth
General Editor
Zondervan Publishers (March 2014)
The Publishing Dictionary has these features:
Fulfilled offers insightful and encouraging notes by a variety of women writers--some names you'll recognize and others will be new to you--that will encourage your heart by helping you recognize that you are a Christian woman who just happens to be single, either by circumstance or by choice. And this gives you the freedom to do for Christ what other women cannot.
Be renewed and refreshed through these features:
- Full NIV text
- 2-color printing throughout
- 104 Devotions written by single Christian women authors, such as Luci Swindoll, Lisa Harper, Mary Hollingsworth, Sheila Bailey, Janine Turner, June Hunt, Helen Hosier, and others
- Profiles of single women in the Bible
- 200 Encouraging scripture verses highlighted in the text
- Scriptural index
- Topical index for single women
- Presentation page
1280 pages
Printed hardcover
Standard print
Layflat binding
Fulfilled (Hardcover)
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- Presentation page
- All the other excellent features of the hardcover listed above
Fulfilled (Leather)
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The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter
365 Inspirational Meditations to Brighten Your Day
Mary Hollingsworth
Tyndale House Publishers
I'm a paragraph. Click once to begin entering your own content. You can change my font, size, line height, color and more by highlighRecognizing and celebrating God's everyday wonders require a certain frame of mind. This devotional is designed to help you create that mind-set each day. Start today to build your own habit of a daily joy break.ting part of me and selecting the options from the toolbar.
Tyndale House (Carol Stream, IL)
384 pp./Softcover
$14.99
The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter
Humorous & Inspiring Stories, Quotes & Quips
Mary Hollingsworth
Guideposts Books
Guideposts Books (New York, NY)
240 pp./Softcover
$15.99
And God Said . . . Let There Be Laughter!
And God Said . . . Let There Be More Laughter!
Humorous & Inspiring Stories, Quotes & Quips
Mary Hollingsworth
Volume 2 in this fun and entertaining series contains hilarious tales and tidbits by such well known authors as Max Lucado, Patsy Clairmont, Martha Bolton, Charles Swindoll, Mark Lowry, and other rib-tickling people. A wonderful gift for someone you know who loves to laugh . . . or just for you.
Guideposts Books (New York, NY)
240 pp./Softcover
$15.99 each
And God Said . . . Let There Be Laughter!
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The Divorce Recovery Guide
A Pathway through Change
This Faire & Hale Planner is a personal workbook to write in and make plans for the future. Full of practical suggestions and lists of things to handle during this difficult time, you'll soon discover this guide is your best friend, leading you through the myriad details and emotional challenges of divorce. This is not your ordinary divorce book! This one will really help in ways you can't imagine. Get it!
Questar Publishers (Sisters, OR)
256 pp./Softcover
$16.99
The Divorce Recovery Guide
Living Lights, Shining Stars
Ten Secrets to Becoming the Light of the World
M. Norvel Young
with Mary Hollingsworth
"Do not repay evil for evil, but overcome evil with good." Norvel Young, former president of Pepperdine University, presents ten powerful ways we can overcome the evil of this world with the goodness of God through our daily lives. Foreword by Bill Bright. Contributed inspirational messages by Mother Teresa, Joni Eareckson Tada, H. Norman Wright, and others.
Howard Books/Simon & Schuster
240 pp/Hardcover
$19.99
Living Lights, Shining Stars
Miracles in Tough Times
True Stories of God's Divine Touch
Life is tough sometimes. A lot of the time. And what we need is God's divine touch on our lives in order to get through the valleys. In this heartwarming book you will read forty true stories of how God touched lives in crisis and restored hope and triumph. A perfect gift for someone in crisis . . . perhaps even you.
Guideposts Books
208 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles in Tough Times
Miracles of
Christmas
True Stories of God's Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
Christmas is that mystical times of year when much of the world focuses on the birth of Christ and celebrates his physical coming. At the same time it's often a difficult time of year for many people. This wonderful collection of forty true stories relate powerful, touching stories of God's personal touch on the lives of people at Christmas. An excellent way to share and anticipate Christmas during the entire month of December.
Guideposts Books
208 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles of Christmas
Miracles and Animals
True Stories of God's Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
God often touches our lives in astonishing and mysterious ways. One of those ways is through the amazing animals he created as our life companions. You'll be comforted and encouraged by these forty true stories of how God used his animals to help his people in trouble. If you love animals, you'll love this book!
Guideposts Books
208 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles and Animals
Miracles and Mysterious Visitors
True Stories of God's Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
Do you believe in angels? If so, you will relish the true stories in this book about how God uses strangers in our lives to touch us with his grace and healing hand. If you're not sure whether you believe in angels, you may find your thinking challenged and changed by these first-person accounts. The Bible cautions us to welcome strangers because "you may be entertaining angels unaware."This book will help you see how.
Guideposts Books
208 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles and Mysterious Visitors
Miracles Every Day
True Stories of God's Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
God draws near to us all the time--he is never far away. He is speaking to us. Touching us. Helping us. And if we pay attention, we can see his miracles happening all around us every day. In this book you will read forty true, first-person stories of God at work in the lives of his people. And you will learn to celebrate his Almighty presence!
Guideposts Books
208 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles Every Day
Christmas Miracles
True Stories of Joy and Wonder
When Miracles Happen Series
Rediscover the Mystery and Hope of Christmas. In this moving collection of true-life stories you'll find accounts of events that defy human explanation and allow you to step into the true spirit of Christmas. You'll be reminded that you are securely wrapped in the grace and truth of God's love.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Christmas Miracles
Miracles of Hope
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
Do you ever give yourself permission to hope for a miracle? Miracles of Hope will help you rediscover and reaffirm your faith in God's power to intervene in your life. These true stories offer moving accounts of holding on to hope, regardless of circumstances, and God's personal touch on life's situations.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles of Hope
Miracles and Amazing Messages
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
In the remarkable true stories collected in this book you will find convincing evidence that no matter where you are, God is beside you, wanting to send you hope, guidance, forgiveness and joy. He is there waiting for you to receive him.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$14.99
Miracles and Amazing Messages
Miracles of Forgiveness
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
Our greatest commandment after loving God is to love one another, and perhaps the first step in heeding that rule is to forgive. In this book you'll discover the remarkable ways God leads us toward love and renewal through forgiveness . . . sometimes miraculous forgiveness!
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$15.99
Miracles and Amazing Messages
Miracles of Forgiveness
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
In Miracles of Love you'll find stories about the many kinds of love--from the romantic to the charitable and, of course, God's love, from which all love flows. Let the stories in this volume help you discover love's true depth and breadth . . . and see the real miracle of God's love.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$15.99
Miracles of Love
Miracles of Forgiveness
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
In Miracles of Renewal you'll read stories of women and men whose hearts are radically renewed by events almost too unbelievable to explain, where divine intervention is at work, bringing unforgettable messages of hope.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$15.99
Miracles of Renewal
Miracles of Forgiveness
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
Miracles and Children takes you on a journey through true stories that show God at work in the lives of children, and anyone willing to be childlike. You'll find touching moments when children are visited by angels, tales of genuine courage, and hope-filled accounts of childhood faith.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$15.99
Miracles of Renewal
Miracles of Forgiveness
True Stories of God’s Divine Touch
When Miracles Happen Series
In Miracles of Healing you'll read about everyday men and women who, in the midst of their afflictions, turn to God for hope and healing. In their struggle they find remarkable ways to overcome and discover new strength often by surrendering to something much greater and more powerful than themselves.
Guideposts Books
240 pp/Hardcover
$15.99
Miracles of Healing