Everywhere I travel and speak, I meet people who are writing or wanting to write. I want to encourage you to go for it! There have never been as many tools and services available for writers as we have now. Professional editors, cover artists, formatters, and marketers are available to make sure the self-published author produces a quality book. And if you want to learn how to do everything yourself, there are tutorials everywhere.
I’ve also met so many helpful people along my writing journey who have taken time to answer my questions, inspire me, or point me in the right direction. If any of you have questions about writing, I’d be happy to do my best to answer them too.
An easy way to ask me what’s on your mind is by adding to the questions I’m already answering at:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/5813900.Jim_Baton/questions
Take a look there at what I’ve already said and add your own writing process queries.
[Please ask questions related to Christian-Muslim relations on my blog Q&A page.]
And if you’ve already written a book but can’t seem to get people to buy it, let me encourage you to not only keep learning about marketing, but to get to work on that second book! I recently read that Ted Dekker (one of my favorite authors) wrote 4 books that were never published before someone liked his 5th book and his career was launched.
I recognize that in the process of writing my first few books, I’m still learning the craft. Hopefully each book gets significantly better.
That’s one reason I’m so excited about my next book hopefully coming out before Christmas—A VIOLENT LIGHT—I think it’s the best written of my books yet. It will keep you on the edge of your seat, puzzling with the main character to figure out what is fear and what is real, with a nail-biting climax that could keep you up all night.
But more about my new book later. Today’s post is to motivate you to a) ask questions, and b) keep writing!
Jim Baton 
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