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Category Archives: Self-Published

Avoiding cancel culture issues

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on June 16, 2024 by David BergslandJune 18, 2024

Avoiding cancel culture issues is becoming an increasing problem for all of us. For us as authors, I’ve been coming to realize we have a relatively simple solution to that hassle. I’m in the process of making a radical revision … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Christian Design, Creative, Self-Published, Writing Last Days | Tagged author, christian author, discipleship, Holy Spirit, niche publishing, no cancel, sell direct, writing

Finding my place in the church

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on October 29, 2023 by David BergslandAugust 8, 2024

Finding my place in the church has been a sixty-year-long search. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what that place was, it was all the stuff I needed to know before it could take place. But now I’m there and … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Christian Design, Christian fiction, Creative, Discipleship, God's Call, Self-Published, Spiritual Warfare | Tagged christian author, Christian fantasy, christian fiction, creationism, demons, discipleship, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, joy, spiritual warfare, worship

Book 3 Peace in Santa Fe is now book three in the Meeting Jesus Saga

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on January 29, 2021 by David BergslandJanuary 27, 2024

Book 3 Peace in Santa Fe is published. This time we visit the world-renowned art center of Canyon Road in Santa Fe. What’s the Lord doing with those weirdos? Actually, this book is past history, radically changed into book 3 … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Ascended Light, Discipleship, Fiction: David's, Miraculous Reality, New Release, Self-Published, spirit Filled Fiction, Spirit-filled Fiction, Spiritual Warfare, UrbanFantasy | Tagged christian, christian author, Christian fantasy, demons, discipleship, Faith, Holy Spirit, knowing Jesus, spiritual warfare

Book Two Peace on the Res is now Meeting Navajo

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on December 18, 2020 by David BergslandJanuary 27, 2024

Book Two Peace on the Res is now changed to Meeting Navajo, and I’m really pleased with it. It went in an entirely new direction that is wonderful. You can read about it on the books 1-4 in the new Meeting … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Author, Book Reviews, Christian fiction, Fantasy, Fiction: David's, New Release, Self-Published, Spiritual Warfare, UrbanFantasy | Tagged christian, christian author, Christian fantasy, christian fiction, Faith, fantasy, Holy Spirit, Jesus, knowing Jesus, Lord, spiritual warfare

A Lady in Defiance by Heather Blanton

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on August 17, 2016 by Iola GoultonAugust 14, 2016

A Lady in Defiance is not your typical Christian fiction. It sounds as though it might be—three ladies settle in a lawless Colorado mining town. But this isn’t the genteel mining towns most Christian authors write about, where basically everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Redemptive Romance, Romance, Self-Published | Tagged A Lady in Defiance, book review, Heather Blanton, Historical romance, Iola Goulton

Book Review: Hidden by Vanetta Chapman

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling avatarPosted on March 3, 2016 by Iola GoultonMarch 2, 2016

[yasr_overall_rating] Hidden is Vanetta Chapman’s first self-published novel, and first romantic suspense novel. Her previous novels have either been Amish romance (the only romance sub-genre I don’t read) or Amish mysteries (I’ve read one and it was very good, except … Continue reading →

Posted in Redemptive Fiction, Romance, Self-Published | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Amish, Hidden, Iola Goulton, Romantic Suspense, Vanetta Chapman

Pre-release announcement: The Wife of Jesus

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on January 27, 2016 by David BergslandJanuary 27, 2016

I’ve been sloppily letting slip that I have a new book coming out. While I wait for it to populate the various retailers, I thought I mention that I have ARCs for those who might want to peruse and review. … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Author, Christian Marketing, Self-Published | Tagged ARC, Bible Study, christian author, christian non-fiction, free review copy, topical

For those wondering where I’ve been..

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on January 15, 2016 by David BergslandJanuary 15, 2016

I’ve been swamped with my new book release, Practical Font Design With FontLab 5, and my new 15-font, 4-family release of book design fonts, the Librum Book Design Group. I’ve got a backlog of three series (10 books), plus a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Author, Self-Published | Tagged mea culpa, new fonts, new release, overwhelmed, self publish, very busy

Book marketing: how to make it work

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on January 21, 2015 by David BergslandJanuary 21, 2015

There’s an excellent article today on Site Pro News about online marketing of your Website, called How to Create Shareable, Likeable and Organic Content. The two typos in the headline worry me a bit. However, Julia tells us the truth about marketing that we, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Author, Christian Marketing, God's Call, Self-Published | Tagged called by god, christian, Christian marketing, Facebook, finding readers, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Marketing, Pinterest, reader communication, social media, Twitter

David

David Bergsland’s Reality Calling Posted on December 13, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 29, 2017

Typographer, author, font designer This blog contains the musings of a long-time artist, writer, & believer who’s been around far too long and knows less than he did forty years ago when he was sure he knew everything. He believes … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Author, Discipleship, God's Call, Self-Published | Tagged author, book designer, Christian book reviewer, font designer, graphic designer, typographer, writer

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