Faith in Publishing with Terry Whalin

In today's episode of the "Helping Families Be Happy" podcast, host Dr. Carla Marie Manly is going to talk to Terry Whalin. He will be talking with us about many things, including his new book proposals that sell.

Episode Highlights:

• 01:01: Terry loves books and loves publishing and that's something he started at a very young age. 
• 02:58: Terry shares how the book "Jesus Be A revolutionary" changed his whole view in life.
• 04:10: Terry shares how he joined Wycliffe Bible Translators out of college, and he spent 17 years with them.
• 04:33: Terry explains how he had a genuine love and relationship with God that he didn't have, and so that's why he needed to get a Bible and begin to sing those songs and go that direction in his life as well.
• 05:08: In Terry's publishing life. He has written biographies on people like Billy Graham and Chuck Colson and John Perkins and Luis Palau, and people like that.
• 05:24: Terry has co-authored books with more than a dozen people over the years, so books have really driven a lot of his life.
• 06:14: Terry had written about 50 books for traditional publishers, but he had never worked inside a publishing company before.
• 06:23: About 15-16 years ago, Terry was hired as the acquisition's editor at David C Cook in Colorado Springs and it gave him a look inside publishing that he had never seen before. 
• 07:31: Terry wrote book proposals that sold originally in 2004, just as a frustrated editor because he wasn't getting the kind of submissions from authors that he really needed then.
• 09:12: As far as who the audience is, what they are going to do to sell the book, all those kinds of things, you can't just write a book.
• 10:05: There are over 4500 new books that are published every day. A publishing plan will help you not to get lost in 4500 books per day. It will help you float to the top rather than sink to.
• 11:23: If you have a plan, execute your plan, then that's where you are going to find your readers out there and really help people with the stuff you are putting in your books.
• 12:12: Terry has published more than a dozen children's books, and he knows that that's a very important area to people as parents read those books.
• 14:04: Terry shares how he benefitted from reading books to his children.
• 15:48: Terry wants to encourage authors to envision where their book is in the bookstore.

3 Key Points:

1. Terry explains how to get a book launched or why their favorite book was launched.
2. Terry shares how publishing has changed a lot since 2004.
3. Terry's mission is to store enjoyment by helping authors be successful, and he is one of the reasons every book needs a book proposal out there.

 

Tweetable Quotes:

• "One of the things that really drives me day in, and day out is the fact that books can change people's lives." – Terry 
• "I can think of many times in my life when the right book came across my path and gave me sometimes, I wanted, sometimes I not so much wanted, i.e.; a wakeup call." - Terry
• "We go to the library or the bookstore and come back with a whole bunch of books and read them over and over to our kids." - Terry

Resources Mentioned

• Helping Families Be Happy Podcast Apple
• Familius.com
• Terry Whalin 
• Podcast Editing