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Want to get published? I wrote a book called Book Publishing Instructions which will help you publish your book as a paperback and eBook. This guide started out as eight pages of instructions for my own publishing endeavors, but over the course of preparing a detailed guide to help you get your book published, those eight pages turned into 184 pages of screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

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The Publishing Gatekeepers are Defeated

By Jeremy Myers

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I have been hearing lots of complaints recently from traditional publishers, authors, and agents that some of the changes in the publishing world are ruining books forever. Their rants go something like this:

Now that everybody can publish a book, there’s going to be so much garbage out there! And it’s all so cheap! How can I charge $24.99 for a book if someone else is selling theirs for $2.99?!! How can I make a living?! We must stop all the independent publishers! We must tell the independent authors that their books are no good unless they get published through traditional publishing methods! We must tell the wannabe authors their ideas are no good! We must force Google, Amazon, and Apple to pay us more money!

I say that the eBook revolution will do for book publishing what the Gutenberg press did for book printing. And the sooner we embrace it, the better off we’ll be. There is publishing evolution going on, and those who fight it will become extinct.

The publishing gatekeepers with their secret handshakes and lofty glares remind me of the black knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the video.

King Arthur represents the legion of authors who have tried to get published through traditional means for scores of years, only to be told “None shall pass!” The King even invited the Black Knight to join his quest, but the Knight refused. When King Arthur tried to pass by without a quarrel, the Knight blocked his way. So they battle.

As the battle progresses, the Black Knight loses both arms and both legs, and through it all, he still thinks he is going to win. Even as King Arthur and “Patsy” trot off (yes, with their coconuts… if you don’t understand, you have to watch the whole movie), the Black Knight screams after them, “Come back here! … I’ll bite your legs off!” Even after King Arthur cuts the Black Knight’s arms and legs off, the Black Knight still thinks he controls the bridge.

This is the situation in the current publishing world. The gatekeepers think they still control the bridge, but Amazon, Google, Apple and a legion of self-published authors and independent publishers have hacked off the legs and arms of the traditional publishing methods. As we trot off into the publishing sunset, they yell after us, “Come back here! I didn’t give you permission to get published! You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what’s coming to ya!”

They think that opening up the publishing world so that anyone can get published will produce lots of published garbage? Well, of course it will! But have you checked the bookshelves of the typical bookstore recently? They’re filled with garbage!

They think that allowing eBooks to sell for $2.99 will hurt their ability to sell books for $24.99? Well, of course it will! …And that is a bad thing? Books have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to make money… and quick.

Some complain that the new publishing models will allow anybody to get published. I say, “It’s about time!”

What do you think about the changes currently taking place in the publishing world? Let me know below.

Oh… and do you want to get your book published in 2014? Stay tuned, because within the next two weeks I will tell you how… Hint: I am going to give you King Arthur’s sword…

How to Get Your Book Published

By Jeremy Myers

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If you subscribe to this blog through my email newsletter, you may have noticed that I am a bit past due on sending out my next free eBook. This is because I have been working hard to get something started to help you get your book published.

I am setting up a way to help you get your book published, but the process is taking much longer than I originally anticipated. So far, I have been working on this project for about a year.

Get Your Book Published

One small part to this project is the next free eBook I will be sending out. It is titled Book Publishing Instructions. Here is the cover:

I am near to being done with this book, but more importantly, am almost ready to launch the related project of actually helping you get your book published.

So if you are an author who wants to get your book published, or if you know an author who wants to get their book published, then keep your subscription to the email newsletter active. If you haven’t yet subscribed to the free Till He Comes email newsletter, what are you waiting for?!

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Get Your Name on this Book Cover

As I near publication of this book (which will be available as a paperback and an eBook) I want to give you the opportunity to get your name on the front cover.

See that green bar at the top of the book cover? If you inspect it carefully, right now all it says is:

Book endorsement here. Second line of book endorsement. -Book Endorsement Author and Blogger

That’s not much of an endorsement, right? That’s because I want to give YOU the opportunity to write an endorsement for that section.

I know you haven’t read this book yet, but if you have read some of my other books and want to write a line or two about these books and how they looked, I will include several of these endorsements on the inside of this book, and randomly pick one of them to go on the front cover.

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Just to give you a little heads up about this book, it is designed to provide step-by-step instructions to help you get your book published.

Originally, I wrote this guide for myself, so that I would remember all the steps involved to taking my book manuscripts from a Word documents, all the way through editing, typesetting, and design, to the ultimate goal of putting the books on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple iBooks.

Now I am making this guide to getting published available to you.

This book not only provides instructions on how to get your book published, but also provides screenshots from my computer and websites and tools which I have found helpful in my own process of getting my books published.

Note that this book is not a guide on how to get your book published by traditional book publishers. Instead, it is a guide on how to publish your book yourself. I also explain why self-publishing is a good route to follow for new and aspiring authors.

So if you want to get your book published, you will want to get a copy of this book.

Please note that the free eBook will be a one-time offer! After I send it out to email newsletter subscribers, the book will still be available, but by purchase only. So make sure you have subscribed to my free email newsletter, and that you keep your subscription active.

Also, invite any others you think might benefit from books like the ones I send out every few months. Thanks!

Goodbye to Google Reader

By Jeremy Myers

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For the last eight years, I have done most of my blog reading on Google Reader.

But now Google is pulling the plug on Google Reader!

Today is the last day of its existence.

Tomorrow will be the end of Google Reader.

In the words of my favorite Monty Python sketch,

Google Reader has passed on! Google Reader is no more! It has ceased to be! It is expired and gone to meet its maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It’s pushing up the daisies! It’s metabolic processes are now history! It’s off the twig! It’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleeding choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-FEED-READER!

If you use Google Reader, I hope you have found an alternative by now! If not, I have a few suggestions at the bottom of this post….

When I first found out Google was shuttering Google Reader, I was shocked, disappointed, and even a little upset. Of all the things for Google to shut down, why Google Reader? It couldn’t have been that expensive or difficult to maintain…

The reason I used Google Reader is because I read a lot blogs. I mean A LOT. Hundreds. This would be impossible to do without some sort of service like Google Reader which pulls all the blog posts together into one place and lets me know on one simple screen when new posts have been published from the various blogs I am interested in reading.

Of course, I don’t literally read every post from every blog I have subscribed to…. I treated my Google Reader page like my own personal newspaper. I decided which writers I wanted to write for my newspaper, and then subscribed to their blogs. When they wrote new articles, Google Reader would give me the title of their post (like a newspaper headline) and the opening line or two. I could quickly and easily scan through hundreds of articles and pick the 5-10 that sounded interested for me to read that day over a cup of coffee.

I not only read blogs about Scripture, church, and theology this way, but also obtained my world and local news, learned tips and tricks about blogging, gained insights into writing and publishing, and even subscribed to a few blogs which were purely for humor (you know, like the comic section of your newspaper).

So when Google announced they were closing Google Reader, it was like your favorite newspaper (if you still get one) announcing that they were going to stop publishing. How was I going to stay updated on all the blogs I read? How was I going to keep up with current events? How was I going to remember which blogs I was reading?

Anyway, I found two alternatives…. both of which you can use if you are a regular reader of this blog.

Get Email Updates

First, there are a few blogs which I read almost every time they post. For these, I went and subscribed to their blogs so that I would get regular daily email updates in my email inbox. The nice thing about doing this is that bloggers who offer email subscriptions often give “insider news” and special updates or offers to their newsletter subscribers. I often get free books this way and advance notices about special trainings or webinars that are helpful as an author and blogger.

If you would like to subscribe to my blog through email, I offer similar things to my newsletter subscribers. You can choose to get daily updates or a weekly summary of my blog posts. And just for signing up you get a FREE digital copy of Skeleton Church, and then every time I put out a new eBook, you get a free digital copy of that book as well.

In fact, I am only a couple of weeks away from putting out my next free eBook, so if you subscribe now, you will get two free eBooks in the span of a month or so.

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Christmas Redemption

By Jeremy Myers

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In Christmas Redemption, I admit that Christmas is a pagan holiday, and go into some of the history and origins of Christmas.

Christmas Redemption then looks at the date of Jesus’ birth and how Jesus fulfilled many of the biblical Jewish holidays in His birth, life, and ministry.

Following this, the book takes a brief look at one of the non-biblical Jewish holidays that Jesus also fulfilled, and ask the question that if Jesus could fulfill a non-biblical Jewish holiday, why can He not also fulfill any other non-biblical holiday?

I believe He can… and He does.

Christmas Redemption ends with looking at some of the symbolism and traditions of Christmas, including gifts, the Christmas tree, and even Santa Claus and showing how all of these can be celebrated and enjoyed by Christians as a true and accurate reflection of the Gospel.

Jesus is in the business of redemption, and just as Jesus has redeemed you and I, He redeems the cultural elements and traditions that surround us, including pagan holidays.

Jesus has redeemed Christmas.

To see how, get Christmas Redemption today.

“Hope” and “Love” Members of RedeemingGod.com will get this book for free a few weeks after signing up. Join now.

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Jesus has redeemed Christmas.

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