Write Life Changing Words Now

Have you ever talked about writing your stories, or dreamed about sharing your ideas or interests in a book? Now is the time to stop talking and dreaming and get it done.

I'm a book coach and life change consultant. I teach people how to write and publish biographies and Christian books. I help people transform their experiences into real life stories. Get ready to amaze yourself with your accomplishments. Let us start today and write well together.


My target audience: Potential Christian authors or others who have a burning desire to share a meaningful, insightful idea, interest or experience with others.

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As a book coach I plan to help people write compelling life-changing Christian-oriented non-fiction books and biographies.

1) Help authors move past writer’s blocks and procrastination by setting definite goals and assignments.

2) Help authors tap into their experiences and life stories to formulate powerful,

dynamic and engaging books that help others.

3) Help authors write compelling biographies about people others would want

to know intimately.

4) Help authors to promote their businesses or advance their point of view by establishing themselves as experts in their field.

5) Help authors use social networking and an attractive website to promote and market their books.

6) Help authors build streams of income through sales of their books through an interactive media presence.

7) Help authors turn their pain or passion into profits.

Here is how I plan to help:


· I help people find the drama, the core of their story and how to build a framework around it.

· I use a mapping strategy when necessary to pull out the drama, the background, the salient details, and the unique aspects of the story they need to tell.

· In the Washington area, I will have weekly coaching sessions where I can inspire and motivate and give clients hands on help. As things progress I would like to have a motivational book camp bringing in other Christian authors as well to keep my authors fired up.

· I will help my authors write major books by setting trends, creative naming and branding and hooking their wagons to hot topics and controversial issues.

· I will help my authors use research, data and interviews with experts where necessary to add credibility to their work.

· I will help my authors write words that entertain, equip and empower.

· I will help authors stay motivated and build the confidence and skills necessary to make it to the finish line.

· I will help authors write convincing book proposals that gleam with good ideas and page-turning insight.

· I will help writers find their voice on paper.

· I will help writers expand their marketing opportunities for their books through social networking

Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds
Book Coach & Life Change Consultant
Author, Columnist, Speaker
www.ReynoldsWorldNews.com
reynew@aol.com
301-899-1341

Top Ten Quiz - Is Book Coaching For You?

I firmly believe everyone should publish their story. Need help? Contact me, I am a book coach and life change consultant.

Athletes get top dollars because they use coaches. So can you who want to write a book to get the good word out to help others, to illustrate you are the savvy expert in your field, and to create ongoing monthly income that boosts your speaking or coaching business.

Number 1-10 on a separate piece of paper. On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being high rate each of the following statements:

Not applicable 5

Don't agree 1 - 2 - 3

Somewhat agree or 5 for not applicable 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8

Totally agree 9 - 10

Score 1 to 10 on each point below. Then add them up to see if you are ready for Book coaching.

__1. I will learn the latest from a book coach professional on self-publishing that frees me from assuming it's too much time or money.

__2. I want to short cut my problems and blocks by creating a savvy coach partnership.

__3. I am willing to let go of my self-limited beliefs about the book.

__4. I am willing to take action and finish--to add at least one high level activity (HLA) per day toward finishing this project. (10 hours a week)

__5. I will show up to my committed coaching times via the phone and email.

__6. I will finish and email the "field work" assigned by my coach before our next session.

__7. I am willing to learn more about the business side of books.

__8. I will listen to feedback and improve the book to sell well.

__9. I will have fun with the project and know it's easier than I thought.

__10. I know I'll benefit from someone helping me stay on track.

Check out Your Score:

--Under 30--

Book Coaching is not for you right now.

--31 to 60--

Remember that book building takes time although through mini steps, you do finish. You may want to look at what you need to let go of to make your book dream a reality. You can only work so many hours a week. However, if you decide to work with a book coach now, you should decide and commit that you will do the high level activities necessary to finish and reap the benefits.

--Over 60--

Congratulations! You are ready for a Book Coach! You are willing to put your book dream near the top of your priorities and do whatever it takes to finish it.

Remember any journey is easier with a partner--and much faster to the finish line, too.

Book and Internet Marketing Coach Judy Cullins helps businesses build clients and sell books. Author of "How to Write your Book Fast" and "The Fast and Cheap Way to Explode Targeted Web Traffic," Judy offers free eBook "Book Writing and Marketing Tips" with monthly ezines at http://www.bookcoaching.com judycullins@cox.net

The Real Coretta Scott King

The Washington Post

By Barbara A. Reynolds

Saturday, February 4, 2006

It was, of course, accurate to label Coretta Scott King the wife or widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But in her own eyes, the label obscured who she really was.

Before she met her husband, she had traveled internationally, crusading for world peace, arriving at that juncture before Dr. King did. During the marriage, she saw herself as a partner, not as an afterthought or an appendage. After her husband's death, she was a warrior figure pushing aside male-dominated leadership to perpetuate Dr. King's legacy by building the King Center and achieving a national holiday honoring him.

In taped interviews over a two-year period, Mrs. King poured out a much different version of her life than the public one of a grieving widow living in the shadow of a heroic husband. As I worked on her yet-unpublished memoirs, she talked candidly, struggling to eject herself from a context that has long been misunderstood.

The interviews grew out of a long-standing relationship that started 30 years ago, when I was assigned to write a magazine cover story about her for the Chicago Tribune. I was there when she was poring over blueprints representing her vision for a King Center, even as some male counterparts condemned her for pursuing such an effort. I was there in the basement of their home when a teary-eyed Martin Luther King III showed me the bike his father bought him but never lived to see him ride. Recently I traveled with Mrs. King, a strict vegan, to a weight-loss center in Florida, where, for a week, we ate nothing but raw vegetables. For years she never forgot to send me a birthday card. I received my last in August.

So you see, she was not only my mentor but my friend, and I know that she wanted to set the record straight.

"Before I was a King, I was a Scott," she said. "We were landowners and independent thinkers. If I had been a weak, fearful woman, Martin would have been forced to pull back or curtail some of his campaigns, but I brought to the marriage a spirit of not only my mother's discernment but my father's strength.

"I was a partner in the movement. When whites bombed our home in Montgomery, Alabama, I was in the home with my infant daughter. We could have been killed, but I refused to give in to fear, because I had a wonderful role model, my father, Obadiah, who, like Martin, was one of the most fearless men I ever met."

Mrs. King was no stranger to terrorism. In 1942, as a child, she had seen her home on the outskirts of Marion, Ala., burned to the ground by whites on Thanksgiving Eve.

"Through it all my father never hated those who did that terrible thing," she said. "He just picked himself up and fearlessly started over again. My burned-out home prepared me for the fires next time in Montgomery. My father, like his father before him, served as the preacher's steward and chairman of the trustee board of our African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. His example of forgiveness deepened my understanding of the commitment needed to face and eventually triumph with love over hate.

"I had no problem being the wife of Martin, but I was never just a wife. In the 1950s, as a concert singer, I performed 'freedom concerts' raising funds for the movement. I ran my household, raised my children, and spoke out on world issues. Maybe people didn't know that I was always an activist because the media wasn't watching. I once told Martin that although I loved being his wife and a mother, if that was all I did I would have gone crazy. I felt a calling on my life from an early age. I knew I had something to contribute to the world. The movement and building the King Center, speaking out on important causes, that is what God called me to do. I was married to the man whom I loved, but I was also married to the movement. . . . I've had the honor of working alongside America's greatest spiritual and moral leader. I never saw my own life as personal, outside of the collective good. I never separated my love of family, church and community."

Coretta King behaved with the dignity of royalty, a quality also often misunderstood. "I carried myself in the ladylike fashion that I had learned from my mother, who always behaved with great dignity. In the South, since black women were so disrespected by whites, our response was to push our shoulders back, keep our head high and walk with dignity and look as if we had oil wells in our backyard. As a budding concert singer, poise and decorum were simply tools of the art, which unfortunately can be mistaken for stiffness or for trying to be a prima donna. However, as someone from the rural South without many cultural advantages, who picked cotton as a child, I have never had any problems identifying with my own heritage. I knew for certain that no matter how far I would climb, I could never forget my origins or look down upon the kind of people who were my own."

As we celebrate the life of Coretta Scott King, let us celebrate her as she saw herself: a woman of substance, a partner in "the dream," a freedom fighter in her own right who helped institutionalize the memory of Dr. King for all people for generations to come.

The writer is an ordained minister, an adjunct professor at the Howard University School of Divinity and author of several books, including, "No I Won't Shut Up," with a foreword by Mrs. King.