by Mike Klassen | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
Do You Believe This?? How do you keep your readers engaged in your writing? You can have something to say, but if you fail to engage your readers, you’re going to drive them away—which, in the end, defeats the purpose of writing. Today, I’m going to clue you in on an... 
by Mike Klassen | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
What do you see? My favorite book in high school—by far—was The Agony and the Ecstasy, the biographical novel by Irving Stone. I’ve always been a fan of history and classical art. Irving brought the two together as he recounted the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. The... 
by Mike Klassen | Jul 29, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
We were seated at The Tattered Cover bookstore, here in the Denver area. Kristen Krueger, a Columbine High School shooting survivor, was hosting a book launch party for her Illumify release, Healing the Invisible Wounds of Trauma. In it, she tells her story of... 
by Mike Klassen | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog
“What do I do now?” Authors ask me this question all the time (and that’s not an exaggeration). They ask me this question after their manuscript goes to copyediting, when it goes into typesetting, and after we release their traditional-quality book. My answer, at... 
by Mike Klassen | Jul 15, 2021 | Blog
Imagine yourself sitting on a NASA strategic planning team. Your group is tasked with organizing the launch of the next spacecraft. Then the subject turns to how the module will be powered into orbit. “Okay,” the voice at the head of the table begins. “This probably... 
by Mike Klassen | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog
Don’t Overlook the Hook So the other day, I was talking to a friend who told me that when he was in his early twenties, he got into a fight with his girlfriend. In the heat of the moment, she stormed out of the apartment and killed herself. My friend wept as he...
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