I’ve been reading about book trailers lately. Many reviewers claim that they don’t help promote a book. Their reasoning is that on sites like YouTube the clips are not categorized by theme. So if a reader is looking for Sci-Fi, there isn’t one spot where all the Sci-Fi clips can be found. Thus, to find you, the reader generally has to know about you already and search for your name. (I beg to differ a little bit here, because if you search YouTube for ‘Christian Romance’ you will get several clips returned to you that fit in that genre.)
But…
What if such a place DID exist where you could go and peruse a category that interested you? That would be cool, right?
I have good news! There are two new sites I’ve found that are attempting to do just that. Check them out, and post your video. I hope they will benefit you!
Christian Book Videos
Book Screening
My sister is a registered nurse.
I have a main character in peril - tied up in the bottom of a deep dark cavern with a dislocated shoulder. And I’m wondering how to ‘relocate’ her shoulder (or whatever the correct terminology is for that procedure) once she is rescued.
So… I call my sister. “I need to know how to reset an anterior dislocation of the shoulder joint,” I say.
Alarm tinges the edges of her voice. “Who’s shoulder is dislocated?”
(She jumps right to the conclusion that one of my kids has a dislocated shoulder???? Hmmmm… I wonder why??)
This picture to the right is not a shoulder. (Quite obviously.) But it is an elbow that was dislocated in our hallway when one of our boys was climbing the walls (literally) and his brother thought it would be neat to pull him down. That said, and since my sister knows her nephews quite well, perhaps she has a passable excuse for her spur of the moment question.
But really?? Am I going to be calling her while my child is (presumably) rolling on the floor in pain to ask, “Hey, what’s the current protocol for relocating a shoulder joint?”
Ummm, no. But hey, she works in the medical field. I’m sure she’s seen some pretty crazy people. And after all… She’s known me all my life.
Oh, and by the way, my character is now out of peril, with her shoulder nicely back in place, just in case you were worried about her.
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I am a member of the Northwest Christian Writers Association. Last night I attended our monthly meeting and our speaker was a lady named Peggy King Anderson. She used fishing analogies to teach about writing and her talk was very good. At one point she read the story of the boy who gave his bread and loaves to Jesus and reminded all of us that as we are faithful to give God what we have available, He will be faithful to multiply it as He needs. I really felt blessed by that thought.
Anyhow, all the talk about fishing last night reminded me of an incident that happened a few years ago when my youngest son was seven. At night we allow our kids to lay awake for awhile and listen to the radio or an audio Bible. He had been listening to the Bible for several nights in a row and we were in the car together, just he and I, on our way home from a doctor’s appointment.
He piped up from the backseat and asked, “Mom, did Jesus really tell Peter that he would make him a fisher of men instead of a fisher of fish?”
I nodded my head. “Yes. Being a fisher of men means that we tell other people about Jesus and how much he loves them.” I went on to explain the analogy for a few minutes.
When I stopped talking he was silent for quite awhile and I thought the conversation was over. But after a long pause he said, “So, Peter wasn’t hookin’ scuba divers or anything like that?”
