MindStir Media Reviews (Video) - Paula Wiseman, Bestselling Author

“No matter where you are in your creative process, MindStir Media’s ready to partner with you to meet your publishing goals. Here’s what you get when you partner with MindStir Media: First of all, you get quality. Your editing will be thorough, your interior design will enhance the readability of your text, and your cover will be attractively designed and will capture the essence of your story in a way that will persuade potential readers to give it a second look. Second of all, you get value. MindStir offers a wide variety of publishing packages and will work with you to ensure you get all the services you need and none that you don’t — all at a price that puts full-service publishing well within reach. Finally, you get control. From start to finish, you call all the shots and you retain all the rights to your work. When you couple that quality, value and artistic control with the experience MindStir has gained in this ever-changing landscape — and solid advice on building your audience — you can’t go wrong. I’m a writer and by partnering with MindStir Media, I can entrust my book’s production to their professionals with confidence and get back to delivering the best story I can. And I’m sure they can help you too. Give them a call. Your book is waiting.”

MindStir Media Facebook Reaches Over 9 Million in 2013

As the president and founder of book publisher MindStir Media, I have access to Facebook Insights for the MindStir Media Facebook page. It’s been a lot of fun watching the page grow throughout the years. I’m so incredibly pleased to announce — both here and on Facebook (as a milestone) — that the page saw a ‘total reach’ of over 9 million Facebook users in 2013.

The original article was published at the MindStir Media blog.

MindStir Media Partners With #1 Christian Writers Site FaithWriters.com to Publish Christian Inspirational Book

In case you don't know, FaithWriters.com is the #1 website for Christian writers, with over 64,000 members worldwide and growing. It's been helping Christian writers and spreading the Gospel for around a decade. It's known as an "encouraging community of Christian writers ... A great place to learn and grow in a safe, caring environment..."

Christian book publisher MindStir Media recently teamed up with Faithwriters.com to create an inspirational book, Trials and Triumphs: Hope Beyond Circumstances: 40 Life-Changing Testimonials, through which Faithwriters intends to share the hope of Jesus. The stories included in the book come from the winners of a recent contest hosted at Faithwriters.com. The top 40 stories were chosen for inclusion in the book. Christian book publishing is MindStir's specialty, so this publishing partnership is a perfect fit. Trials and Triumphs is scheduled to be released by the end of January 2014. It'll be available at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and other fine retailers worldwide.

Update: The book is now available. See the MindStir Media press release here.

MindStir Media Reviews Directory

Updated 2/4/2015

Here's a long, yet non-exhaustive directory of self publishing reviews from MindStir Media authors. Most of the reviews were published at the MindStir Media website. Recently, MindStir has had the pleasure of receiving some fantastic video reviews, through which MindStir authors praised MindStir. Those video reviews -- the links -- are included below, along with the regular text-based reviews...

• Paula Wiseman - Amazon.com bestselling author of six MindStir published books
• Paula Wiseman (updated VIDEO review, January 20, 2014)
• Gloria Cortina - Amazon.com bestselling author of Veronica's Castle
• Will Montgomery - MindStir Media Christian Author
• Donna Raye - Award-Winning Author
• Donald Kitain - MindStir Media Author
• Suneel Dhand M.D. - MindStir Media Author (Expert in Health & Wellness)
• Clyde Heath - MindStir Media Children's Book Author (Video Review)
• Scott Ferguson - MindStir Media Children's Book Author
• Dr. Marina Kostina - Amazon.com Bestselling Author & Online Distance Learning Expert
• Yvonne Augustin - MindStir Media Children's Book Author
• Linda Reihs - MindStir Media Children's Book Author & National Board Certified Teacher
• Mari McEowen - MindStir Media Children's Book Author & Respiratory Therapist
• Libbye Morris - Professional Freelance Writer & Editor
• Casey Harrison - MindStir Media Children's Book Author
• Cheryl Bloser - Amazon.com bestselling author
• Acacia Oak - MindStir Media Author
• Edna C. Hunter - MindStir Media Author
• Amanda Moll - MindStir Media Children's Book Author
• Rose Mula - MindStir Media Author
• Rosebud Turner - MindStir Media Children's Book Author
• William May - MindStir Media Author & Retired Police Chief / PTSD Expert
• Toni Tuso Faber - MindStir Media Author
• Joy Stinson - MindStir Media Author, Appeared On "Destination America" TV
• Cameron Conaway - Award-Winning Poet, Executive Editor at The Good Men Project
• Kelly Lindsay - MindStir Media Author (Video Review)
• Chere Harris - MindStir Media Christian Author
• Sheila Bittick - MindStir children's book author
• Dionne Bell - MindStir Media novelist
• Elizabeth Furman Eckel - children's book author
• M. Robert Neuman - He's authored three books with MindStir Media
• Volker Fremuth - MindStir Media author
• Gladys Dufua - MindStir Media author
• Jerri Busick - MindStir Media children's book author
• Normaline Grimshaw - children's book author
• Vanessa Lagera - MindStir Media author
• Mimi Groome - children's book author
• Lynn Rosenblatt - MindStir Media children's book author

Author Selma Curtis Reviews MindStir Media Book Publishers

MindStir Media author Selma Curtis offers a (video) review describing her positive experience with MindStir Media book publishers.

Ebook Publishing - MindStir Media

Proud to announce here at MindStir Media that we offer ebook publishing via our ebook publishing package. The ebook package includes ebook conversion for Kindle, Nook, iPad etc. as well as an ISBN, worldwide distribution, 100% royalties and more! (Follow MindStir Media on Google+)

Top 50 Writing Quotes

I put together a list of 50 quotes on writing and posted them on the How to Publish Books blog.  People -- other writers, especially -- seem to love the list. Here's an excerpt....

As a writer, I've always been interested in quotes about writing. They help to remind me that I'm not alone in writing. The writing journey is, for the most part, a solitary trek, so many of these quotes have really offered me comfort and some laughs throughout the years. I've even shared some of these quotes with my authors at MindStir Media book publishers. Here are the top 50 quotes on writing (in my opinion). While they are technically in "no particular order," I believe they all belong somewhere on this list. Enjoy!

1. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typwriter and bleed.” –Ernest Hemingway
2. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” –Maya Angelou
3. “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” –Madeleine L’Engle
4. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” –Stephen King
5. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” –Stephen King
6. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” –Toni Morrison
7. “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” –Lloyd Alexander
8. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” –Robert Frost
9. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” –Isaac Asimov
10. “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” –Neil Gaiman

Read the remaining 40 writing quotes....