Whew, that’s a long post title! And looking back over my blogging journey, I’ve written a LOT of posts. This is post 2,500. My first post went live on October 5, 2004 when my blog was called Relevantblog and I was Relevantgirl. I initiated it on the soil of southern France. Here’s a paragraph from [...]

I’ve been to a lot of writers conferences, both as an attendee and a speaker. This last year, I had the privilege of speaking at the inaugural Re:Write conference. It was a huge, valuable time. The other speakers were amazing, over the top. I learned extremely valuable information about branding, self publishing, and marketing, and [...]

I came to Pinterest as a newbie, knowing very little about it. In fact, I had a few boards up with my book covers, which (not surprisingly) had very little interaction and certainly no benefit to MaryDeMuth.com’s statistics. I’d read about Pinterest and its crazy-wild potential, so I started experimenting in December with it. Soon [...]

I asked via Twitter and Facebook this question: How do you balance blessing the Kingdom of God with marketing your wares? Is there such a thing? Here are the responses: 1. A constant and careful balancing act. 2. The question implies you can’t do both at the same time; I’d check that assumption. It’s more [...]

If you’re a blogger like me, you make a lot of mistakes. I’ve been making them on this blog since 2004. Even today I got feedback on a post I wrote April 18, 2012 where I made a typo/spelling error. Can you find it? Second to last paragraph. (Five gold stars to the first who [...]

If you want to get published, start small. I certainly embraced starting small. I’d written in journals for years, recording silly things like which boy I liked in seventh grade. When I became a Christian at fifteen, my journal became a place where I could pray, lament, and ponder spiritual questions. Because I’d always been [...]

I’d like to introduce you to my friend Sarah Bessey. We went to Haiti together, and we shared a room. (She doesn’t snore!) I learned a lot from her, and I’m so grateful we’ve had the chance to break and share bread, particularly poignant surrounded by poverty. That’s a rare experience, and Sarah is a [...]

Here’s a story that proves the adage, You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover (or spine for that matter). So I ordered a book. It’s one I’d had on my Kindle, but loved it so much, I wanted in my hot little hands because she teaches how to make cheese, and I love cheese. [...]

This might not be popular. It might not be what marketers are after. But it’s true. It’s the power of small. I’m writing this from an author’s perspective, but the principles apply to anyone in business who has to market something. As authors, we don’t like those three words (power of small) too much. We’d [...]

I had the privilege of speaking at the first-ever Re:write conference, inaugurated by my agent, Esther (and her amazing assistants and friends) last September 2012. Wow. One of the cool things was asking how many writers had attended the conference because I wrote about it. Quite a few raised their hands. Very fun! (Hey, social media [...]