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		<title>Refresh! Interview With Author Joyce Tepfer</title>
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Joyce Tepfer, one of the most amazing teachers and story-tellers I know, has recently published Refresh! Teacher Devotions and Training Tips. It is an inspiring book full of ideas and inspiration for ministry teachers and anyone needing a daily dose of motivation.  
Joyce has raised two of her own children as well as served as a Children’s Director for 14 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1404</link>
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		<title>Profiting from Reader Feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I worked night after night to finish two sample chapters for a publisher interested in my book proposal. Faithfully, I toiled away—writing, crafting, rewriting, revising, writing, and rewriting some more.
I was done. What I mean is that I had taken the writing as far as I could. I read what I had written—several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1369</link>
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		<title>Helper, Missionary, Prophet, Teacher: Write to Serve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, I sat with a manuscript in my trembling hands before a panel of successful CBA authors. One by one they told their testimonies of how God began to open doors for their writing. One realized that there were no books for teen girls available that glorified God, so she filled the niche. Another identified the assault on belief in intelligent design which occurs in most secular universities, so he drew on his background in law to make a case for creationism. A third wrote one of the most inspiring children’s books I’ve ever read. Her motivation was simply to teach children about Jesus. So, here I was, with a manuscript primarily drawn from my own life, with no clear ministry intention or audience. I had not viewed these talents as God’s and had not written this so much as to help others, but myself....]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1310</link>
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		<title>A Lesson in Book Contract Negotiations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the following guest post, Laurie A. Gray shares the lessons she learned negotiating her first book contract. Because writers on their way to publication often forget or ignore the business side of writing, it is helpful when someone like Laurie can share her experience:

My first publishing contract!  I remember holding it in my hands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1294</link>
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		<title>WORDS&#8230;</title>
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&#8220;Words: They are more than tools used in the transfer of simple information from mind to mind&#8230;. I was attempting to use them as paint, spreading them on a canvas rather than paper. I wanted to write to the body and to the senses as well as the mind.  Did I? It&#8217;s a tricky goal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marriage Code &amp; the Life of a Servant Writer/Speaker Couple</title>
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Bill and Pam Farrel are best-selling authors and international speakers.  With 30 book to their credit, inlcuding Men Are Like Waffeles and Women Are Like Spagetti, they are still fired up about helping marriages thrive. What I most appreaciate about this Servant Writer/Speaker couple is their passion to help build strong marriages and guide up-and-coming writers whom they mentor.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1261</link>
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		<title>A Different Dream for My Child: Jolene Philo Shares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jolene Philo has written a much needed book to encourage parents and family members of chronically ill children.  A Different Dream for My Child exemplifies the call of 2 Corinthians 1:3-4:
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1245</link>
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		<title>Interview with Fiction Writer, Melanie Dobson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was talking with some college students about their summer fiction reading.  &#8221;I often wonder how the book was born,&#8221; said one of them.  I&#8217;ve often asked that question myself.  In this interview, we get the chance to find out how a special work of fiction was born from the author herself, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1212</link>
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		<title>Book Beginnings: A Different Dream for My Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents of Critically or Chronically Ill Children is Jolene Philo's first book.  In this Book Beginnings preview, Jonlene gives us a taste of what promises to be an inspirational and perspective-changing look at this difficult jouney.  What do you hope to find find in this book? It is scheduled for release in September 2009.]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1148</link>
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		<title>The Most Important Question We Will Ever Ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why?&#8221;
Yes, the most important question we will ever ask is &#8220;why?&#8221;  Or better yet, &#8220;Can you help me understand?&#8221;
If you read my recent book review of The Noticer by Andy Andrews, and the subsequent update I added yesterday, you&#8217;ll discover that today&#8217;s post echoes the central theme of the book: &#8220;Sometimes, all a person needs is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingtoserve.net/?p=1181</link>
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