I am “recovering” this week from a great week last week in Nashville where I got to visit with my mom and sister and also do a few fun things with a couple of my books plus meet with some of our Wives of Faith board members!
Last Tuesday I did a webcast with LifeWay Women Live, their monthly training resource live webcast they do to equip women’s ministry leaders in churches all over the country and other parts of the world. We had a good chat about military families and the challenges we deal with and how churches and congregations can help serve. The web archive for that should be available in another week or so, and I will do my best to remember to come back and post the link here.
Wednesday I got the special unexpected treat of recording a podcast with LifeWay News about Tour of Duty and military families and deployment in general. This was with my old office I used to work for when I worked in corporate communications there several years ago, and it was fun to reconnect with old friends and co-workers as well as meet some new. Jon Wilke serves as their media manager now, and being former military himself, he has a huge passion for supporting our military and asked some great questions in the interview. The link isn’t up yet but I will let you know when it is.
That afternoon I ran home for my first marketing meeting/conference call with Harvest House to discuss promotion for my new book, My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife . Marketing meetings are always fun because, of course, this is the creative fun part where we get to plan and dream and think of fun things to do for my readers! And I loved the team at Harvest House! Lots of great ideas and I’m excited to be working with them. They actually surprised me when they told me they see this book as a “crossover” – meaning they are going to be pitching it not just to the Christian media outlets and stores (in fact, look who’s already got it on their website) but also to mainstream media – like the major morning shows and cable news networks. Oh boy! I also didn’t realize until they sent me a few pictures afterwards, that the book was featured at this year’s ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) which is where publishers and retailers come together to discuss books, the newest books and getting those books into the hands of readers.
Expect lots of giveaways in the coming weeks and months and if you haven’t yet done so, follow on Facebook (facebook.com/myproverbs31life) and Twitter (twitter.com/myprov31life) because we’ve already had one giveaway for the book this past weekend and will be doing another soon!
I had another meeting last week finalizing something very special I’ve been working on with another division at LifeWay but I can’t announce it until our Wives of Faith retreat in September. But it will be the start of a dream I’ve had for awhile and I can’t wait to tell you about it!
I know this What’s New Wednesday update seemed more like What Happened Last Wednesday, but I do have some “new” news I just found out yesterday. Focus on the Family is re-airing my interview I did with them last year, “God’s Hope and Strength for Military Families” August 1st (this coming Monday). Check your local listings if you’d like to listen or visit their website to listen live there (and they will have it up in their archives afterwards).
Don’t know about you, but we are winding down summer and gearing up for school! Monday is Caleb’s 5th grade orientation and August is the month my husband comes home!! He’s been away since October and we are very excited that the days and weeks are counting down quickly!!
Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful rest of the week!
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I hope it's the dream we talked about in Dallas….that would be AMAZING!!!!!