Branding 110 Publishing Your Own Books | Reformation Designs guest appearance

09/12/18 • 77 min

I got to be interviewed by Ryan J. Rhoades, founder of Reformation Designs this past weekend. He does a weekly FB live interview series on the subject of branding. We talked about writing and publishing books, of course. This is the raw file, unedited, so there were a few glitches, and you hear me say um and uh a lot more than normal as a result.

We covered a lot, but if you’re ready to soak in some information like a sponge or writing a book is something you’ve been wanting to do then this video should help get you off to a good start.

Ryan and I have been in conversation for some time now and we’ve finally joined forces and are providing a comprehensive package for authors and writers wanting to create an excellent, professional and high quality book.

Ryan will be doing all the visual branding (covers, social media images, website artwork if needed, etc...) for our authors, while I’ll continue coaching writers and helping craft their content.

If you’re not an author yourself but know someone who could use our help, we offer a 5% referral fee. If you refer someone to us and they become a paying client of ours, we’ll award you 5% of what we earn on that project.

Creating a book is a huge endevor, and since we value and appreciate that someone is coming to us and trusting us with bringing their “baby” into the world, we want to thank you for recommending us to them with a paid referral.

If you would like to work with us on your book, or need help creating it, get in touch and book a call with me below and we’ll see if we’d make a good team together. After booking you will be re-directed to an application form which will help us know more about your project before the call.

My booking calendar: http://meetme.so/SteveBremner

Also check out Ryan's new podcast, The Creative Revolution Podcast

We covered a lot, but if you’re ready to soak in some information like a sponge or writing a book is something you’ve been wanting to do then this video should help get you off to a good start.

Ryan will be doing all the visual branding (covers, social media images, website artwork if needed, etc...) for our authors, while I’ll continue coaching writers and helping craft their content.

My booking calendar: http://meetme.so/SteveBremner

Also check out Ryan's new podcast, The Creative Revolution Podcast

Previous Episode

A Year of Living Homeless | Derek Snook

Derek Snook, self-described son of a Baptist minister and entrepeneur joins me to discuss his recent book, The Definition of Success: What Living Homeless Can Teach You. He tells me what was intended as a one-night experiment lasted a year, and years later he has decided to publish a book about how this experience had an impact on him and what he learned from it, including a well-paying temp agency he started and recently sold.

Definitely a different take on "loving your neighbor as yourself" if I ever heard one!

A few interesting points that came up in our discussion:

While Derek could have quit this experiment at any given momenty and gone back home, most homeless and less fortunate don't have that option
How living in bubbles in our culture is destructive to indviduals and groups, including the toll isolation is taking on mental health in general
The intriguing way a city's layout is actually important to society
What can we do to erase the barrier between wealthy and poor churches, as well as the racial divide, even in the church, between black and white congregations

Relevant Links:

Derek's website at dereksnook.net

Follow Derek on Instagram.

Get a copy of his book from Amazon.

Check out Derek's 2015 TedX talk at this link: https://youtu.be/haoTlVcg0PE

Next Episode

Are You Really A Missionary?

I tackle a couple of world events. I say a “couple”, though it’s true, but I spend more time disproportionately focused on the situation of John Allen Chau, the missionary who was killed by The Sentinelese tribe on the North Sentinel Island off the coast of India. I felt like I needed to say something and offer my perspective, hoping that my slant is unique not just because I’m also a missionary — plenty of missionaries are chiming in on social media. Not just because I have a platform to do so, and not just because I have any opinions. But I feel like this is one of those gray areas and the rightness or foolishness of his actions which led to him being killed are not as black and white as people taking sides about this would insist it is. I respect and agree with my brothers and sisters in Christ who feel Chau counted the cost and will receive a martyr’s reward, while I ALSO have reservations and feelings that the perspective he went about this the way he did was also a bit misguided. But after that I have difficult with the oversimplifying of this that people on both sides are doing. Since the topic is multi-faceted, I decided to turn on the mic and share my thoughts verbally, for those of you who would want them, so there’s less confusion about what I’m saying if you can hear me out instead of just reading me out. And hopefully not adding to the noise. I’ve also thought of many other things I could have said and thoughts I could have included in this recording that I didn’t, but there are a lot of misconceptions about what a missionary is as it is that perhaps I’ll explore in another episode or find a suitable guest to have a discussion with about these things. But suffice it to say, I hope you get some value out of these thoughts today. Blessings to you! My Relevant Blog Links: Missionary or Glorified Tourist? When Mission Isn't Sexy Do You Know What Your Missionaries Are Actually Doing? Things Your Missionary Will Never Tell You External Links: John Chau, Missions, and Fools - Ed Stetzer, Christianity Today John Allen Chau: Do missionaries help or harm? - By Toby Luckhurst BBC News