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"Do you have a story or message you MUST tell ... but you don't feel confident you know how to write a book? In this brief, practical guide, decades-experienced writer and editor Carlene Hill Byron gives you the pro tips you need to write your book successfully. You'll learn writing and organizing tactics that will work for your specific learning style, instead of being presented a ""one size fits all"" approach that would constrain you. You'll discover secrets to creativity that you can apply in your writing projects and in everything you do that requires imagination. You'll learn a time-tested storytelling structure that will encourage others, even if your life with God has as many ""downs"" as ""ups."" The book you write will be a bridge that connects your own life and ideas with the readers who need to know about them. You can introduce them to valuable innovations, give them inspiration by your story of resilience, encourage their compassion and empathy for people facing challenges. Telling your story effectively will help them discover a companion for their own spiritual journey. It will establish your own legacy in print for all time, leaving an heritage to those who follow. Writing your book in your own voice will give you a powerful tool to use everywhere you serve in personal and professional leadership: family, community, church, and business. The experiences you share will become supports to others making similar journeys. Writing a book is an act of service that lets others learn from the vision your experiences have grown in you. If it's time to write your own book but you don't know where to start, this book will give you more help in fewer words than you'll find anywhere else!"

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Over a career spanning more than four decades, Carlene Hill Byron has helped people on five continents tell their stories so they reach just the right audiences. She has supported engineering and technology companies, fashion marketers, faith-based organizations, and health-focused enterprises, among many others. She has helped business executives write their inspirational memoirs, emerging novelists hone their manuscripts, and faith leaders write uplifting guides to Christian living. As a Spirit Media Angel Writer and editor, she supports people from all walks of life in achieving their publishing dreams.Byron has worked as a daily newspaper journalist, in marketing communications for a national engineering firm and a technology startup, as an SEO writer for a large online marketplace, and as development officer for disability and social services nonprofits. She is the former editor of New England Church Life and The New England Christian. In those roles, she was privileged to connect with Christians from more than 60 different denominations or associations across the six New England states. Her writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Charisma, Outreach Magazine, Evangelizing Today's Child and The War Cry (Salvation Army), as well as online at The Perennial Generation, Yahoo News, Mad in America, and The Canadian Mennonite.Her first book, Not Quite Fine: Mental Health, Faith, and Showing Up for One Another, was published in 2021. Her next books dive deep into the Old and New Testaments to uncover God's direct guidance for care of our environment and daily living. She is active in care ministries at her local church, enjoys learning to square dance, and is an avid amateur baker who has made 21 wedding cakes and annually produces more than 30 dozen Christmas cookies.

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