by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 Did you know that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world? Over one billion hours of videos are watched on YouTube every day.1 Why aren’t more authors on this site? For over a year, I was afraid of putting my face on the…

@KatyKauffman28 After my second book, I ran into several dead ends. I thought maybe God wanted me to write about the book of Nehemiah. I have learned so much from Nehemiah’s story, but no, I wasn’t suppose to write about that. Then the Gospel of Mark—another book I love and…

@KatyKauffman28 I thought of them as I wrote my first book—my best friend who has four children, another good friend who has survived trial after trial, and the women in a Sunday school I once belonged to. I wanted to remember their everyday struggles and concerns. I didn’t want to…

@KatyKauffman28 One of your greatest marketing tools as an author is the first five pages of your book. Once a potential buyer looks at your title, cover, back cover copy, and Table of Contents, they’re likely to look at your first five pages. If the first paragraph wows them, they’ll…

@KatyKauffman28 Five days after returning home from Blue Ridge this year, I still needed sleep. My body was used to six hours of rest, and I kept waking up much sooner than I wanted to. Adjusting to life post-conference can be a feat. Not just in terms of physical rest,…

@KatyKauffman28 Cindy laughed with the other writers around the table. At least I’m not the only one, she thought. Many of them were also newbies—anxious newbies—at the Blue Ridge conference. She looked at her phone to check the time and noticed that she hadn’t heard her alarm above the roar…