Publicist Power: VideoLit

Bertice Berry's When Love Calls...

My new friend, Christian Marketing Guru, Pam Perry wrote a nice article,So Can You Afford Not To Promote Your Book If God Told You To Write It?

It’s really a disservice to the name of Jesus when I see authors who are in the book business and have not done their “homework.” They make a mockery out of the gospel by not doing things in an excellent manner. If the book that God told them to write is so important, then why don’t they do all that is humanly possible to make it appealing so people can buy it?

I agree. And boy, was I surprised today when I was doing a little market research of mine own that I came across an author that I really admire, Bertice Berry, and her new book. And most importantly, the way she is promoting it online--through vidlit.

Vidlit is service that takes an excerpt from your book and turns it into a little video with music and graphics and a voice. Better than audio book. So click on the title and check out the video. I want this book now.

Deanne Gist has a nice video of her book, Bride Most Begrudging. Want that one, too.

I think it's the video's hooking me. Something to think about as you plan your book promotion.

Why Fiction Matters: GT, Christian Gaming

Senator Clinton wants to launch a Federal Trade Commission investigation into video gaming.

A downloadable mod [for Grand Theft Auto named Hot Coffee] was put together by Dutch GTA fan Patrick Wildenborg and is said to unlock mini-games in the recently-released PC version of San Andreas that lets players make game characters have sex.

Can you imagine walking in your children playing this game?

"There is no doubting the fact that the widespread availability of sexually explicit and graphically violent video games makes the challenge of parenting much harder," said the senator[Hilary Clinton] in her missive to the FTC.

An Alternative. Christian video games?

Potter, Pope Benedict & Cute American Boy

- Thursday, 14 July, 2005, New York. From BBC News: A nine-year-old boy has returned the latest Harry Potter book to a shop which accidentally sold it to him.

In the same article is a quote from then Cardinal now Pope Bendict:

Pope Benedict wrote:

"It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly."

Hadn't read it, yet. But I plan to before someone passes it on to Selah. Or her school requires her to read it next year in first grade.

Dee

Deep POV: Confessions of a Christian Writer: More on Crouch's Speech at CBA

Pat Loomis coined a term "Christian Ghetto" that I am feening about over here(excuse my Jodeci's reference--a ghetto term, for wanting very much.)

Deep POV: Confessions of a Christian Writer: More on Crouch's Speech at CBA: "Yet, just as some Christians hang out in church on Sundays and Wednesdays, shop in Christian bookstores, visit Christian friends, drink cofee in Christian coffee shops, and generally never dip their toe into secular water, so we perpetuate that Christian ghetto by reading escapist Christian literature. Some of us never dream that we might find profound insight into the mind of Christ by reading something different. As if God is limited somehow as to how He might minister to us."

Faith in Fiction is also talking about this as well.

But I'm telling you read some novels written by African American Authors(Victoria Christopher Murray, Tia McCollors, plug plug) and you will see some real deal issues going on. I just reviewed Sacred Sons by Linda Hudson-Smith, girlfriend goes deep with the problems with young men today and how we, saved sisters condone it, Girl....:)

Writing to see what the end's gon' be,
Dee

I'm taking my own sermonic advice and rewriting the finished novel sitting in my closet needed a much needed second draft.