Comments on: Making a Magazine and Finding a Publisher

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:58:22 +0000

Great info. I have a few questions. How do you bind the pages together if you want to print the magazine on your own printer? If you are a free-lance writer and have been previously publishes several times, why can’t you do all the articles yourself? I haven’t heard of one writer doing it all, but isn’t it possible?

By: Jeff Pollard

Jeff Pollard — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:14:04 +0000

Dear Tahlia and Lauren,

Thank you for your excellent work. Your writing is clear, your articles are informative, and your resources are very helpful. May the Lord Jesus wonderfully use your gifts to glorify Him and increase His kingdom!

May the Lord richly bless you in all your endeavors for Him.

By: Mike Bird

Mike Bird — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:47:10 +0000

Tahlia and Lauren,
Well done. You both write very well. I wish you every blessing in your future writing careers. Maybe one day, when your Dad is alot older, you can revize a second edition of his John commentary and fix up parts of his exegesis that you don’t like

Andreas, you are truly blessed to have two very gifted daughters.

By: Talking Out Of Turn › Girlz4Christ

Talking Out Of Turn › Girlz4Christ — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:55:10 +0000

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By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:29:03 +0000

I was a youth minister for over a decade and worked with thousands of youth, and I also taught fifth graders. Ladies, you’re writing is years ahead of your age! Impressive! When you publish your first book, be sure to send it my way (preferably autographed :):):):)!

By: David McKay

David McKay — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:11:05 +0000

Excellent advice, girls! But I would like to quibble with one comment, that writing the book is the easy part.

Successful Australian novelist Bryce Courtenay wrote a book which included advice about writing, and he said that writing the book was the hard part. [But based on your writing of these articles, that may not be the case for you!]

Courtenay says that many people tell him they are going to write a book one day. So he asks them what they will write about and they usually tell him they have no idea!

He then made the perceptive comment that if you think you are a budding writer, write an interesting ten page letter and send it to ten of your friends. He says, if you can’t do that, you aren’t going to be able to write a book.

I think his comments would make many of us realise that we haven’t got to square one in the book writing arena.