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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
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The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants ...read more
"Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will ...read more
"I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and loveseats. I have never seen one of them in ...read more
"No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or ...read more
"All morning I worked on the proof of one of my poems, and I took out a comma; in ...read more
"Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joyof an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly ...read more
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing ...read more
If you force yourself to think clearly you will write clearly. Its as simple as that. The hard part isnt the ...read more
Christian Publishers receive a combined total of about 250,000 manuscripts per year. All Christian publishers combined (slightly over 300) publish approximately 12,000 new tittles per year. This indicates that about 5% of manuscripts get ...read more
Scholastic plans a U.S. record 12 million copies first printing of the 7th Harry Potter book to ...read more
Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The average first printing of a book for a ...read more
Religious books were top choice among America’s most avid readers in '06. An AP-Ipsos poll found that 66% of U.S. adults read a religious book (including the Bible), the most-read category, followed by popular fiction, histories, bio-graphies, and mysteries. One in four did not read any book during ...read more
Audio Book Sales are estimated at $923 million for '06, a 6% jump from the previous year, reports the Audio Publishers Assoc. 69% of that was CD-format ...read more
Religious Book Sales rose 25.4% in August and 9.1% for the year to date, according to the Association of American Publishers. Overall U.S. book sales rose 9.8% for the ...read more
Nelson Publishers has 5 titles on the 10/21 New York Times’ best-sellers lists, a first in the company’s history. Included are David Jeremiah’s Signs of Life, #10 and Deborah Norville’s Thank You Power, #13 on the Hardcover Advice list. Robin McGraw’s Inside My Heart is #12, and John and Stasi ...read more
Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, started writing inspirational fiction in ’98 and now has 6 million books in print. While most novelists finish two manuscripts a year, Kingsbury hammers out 5, mostly in the 5 ...read more
58% of American adults will never read another book after high ...read more
Amazon.com has notified some print-on-demand publishers that if they wish to continue selling books directly through their site, they must use Amazon-owned BookSurge to print their books. Amazon currently places orders through the POD publishers’ distributors. But soon, publishers will be required ...read more
Numerous Christian Titles made Publishers Weekly’s 2007 list of top-selling books. 4 of the top 20 Hardcover Non-fiction books came from Christian publishers, including Become a Better You, Joel Osteen (Free Press); Quiet Strength, Tony Dungy (Tyndale); Reposition Yourself, T.D. Jakes (Atria ...read more
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