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Veteran journalist and publisher Kathryn E. Darden has been officially selected for inclusion in the international Influential Women directory under the Publishing & Journalism category. The platform serves as a global professional network honoring female media founders, executives, and authors whose work shapes industries and leaves a lasting impact across print and digital media. For Darden, the selection highlights a media career spanning more than three decades and follows hot on the heels of her recent inclusion in the prestigious 2026 edition of  Who’s Who  of America registry.   Since founding ChristianActivities.com in 1992, as well as starting a web presence in 1994, she has guided the outlet into one of the longest-running independent Christian news portals on the web. Beyond her flagship publication, her reporting and feature writing have appeared across a broad mix of regional and national outlets, including The Tennessean , The Westview , Barbie Baza...

It is like being back at square one again! Well, not really, but still.... I am still in the process of negotiating with a new publisher, but things are taking a bit longer than I anticipated, because I am having to reformat my text, side bars, and graphics in hopes of going with a slightly-smaller, less expensive book size. And since I am having to go back in to reformat, why, of course I am going back in to the text as well, adding, tweaking and updating! I am not making any big changes, but if I can save a little on the cost per book, and make some small improvements to the text, I might as well take advantage of it! Reformatting it myself saves me the cost of hiring someone else to do my layout. If I have done all this reformatting and decide NOT to go with the new publisher, I will be VERY ticked with myself. I am still not even sure I am going with them, because they need to see the book in its new, improved, tighter, reformatted state to tell me what the cost per book will be. I...

How to Promote Your Book on a Shoestring Budget started its life as the 8-page booklet "How to Promote Your Benefit Concert on a Shoestring Budget" way back in 1990. That's how long I have been organizing promotional, marketing and publicity tips along with event-planning ideas. I started work on this book in September of 2006, and even had a proof copy done at a local vanity press. However, I was very unhappy with the results and have spent the past two years refining the book, adding four new chapters plus a checklist, as well as workbook pages with every chapter. The book has been through the editing process, has been proof read, designed and laid out, and now I am just waiting for the final product to roll off the presses, hopefully by the end of August! If you order the book, I want you to know that's not all you get! I have just created a Yahoo group where my readers will have access to me and to other writers where you can give feedback, ask questions, and sh...