July 2026
Have you been to many author or book events in your author journey? They are wonderfully rich opportunities to learn. At Buoyancy, we focus on two during the year – and one of them starts this weekend. Today, the Buoyancy PR shop is closed as we are traveling with a carload of display booth material to the St. Louis area for the...
July 2026
Last week we spoke here about news releases, focusing on the need to include several types of information commonly referred to as the 5Ws and an H (who, what, when, where, how, and why).Those thoughts were part of our effort to provide a little practical help for any of you preparing press materials to use with connecting with the news...
July 2026
In the Buoyancy shop, we continue to be busy booking interviews for author clients, and also preparing for interviews at CPE, the Christian Product Expo, coming up August 2-4. We’ve decided for the next couple of weeks to try to be of service to any author readers of Buoyancy PR’s Week-ending Words who are also preparing to attend CPE next month to...
June 2026
You aren’t equals. Done any interviewing lately? Looking forward to doing some? In our shop, it continues to be a busy season of setting up interviews for multiple clients. Most of the authors with whom we are working right now are first time authors, so this interviewing seems a bit mysterious, perhaps a skosh nerve-wracking, but also exciting. There are things to know...
June 2026
Happy Juneteenth. Today is a holiday. I hope you are commemorating this day in some way, though I was a bit disappointed with myself to realize this isn’t a holiday I know very much about. The above image of the Juneteenth flag is new to me though I proudly share It with you here along with just a few bits of info...
May 2026
“Faith-based radio has a long history in America, dating back to the earliest broadcasts of Sunday services at the beginning of the 1920s. Today, there are more than 4,000 terrestrial religious radio stations in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center analysis from the Pew-Knight Initiative. That’s about a quarter of the roughly 17,000 AM and FM stations in...
May 2026
There’s new data out on Christian radio, and it’s surprisingly good--and interesting--news. According to a new national study published by the Pew Research Center, almost 98% of American adults live in range of one or more what they call “religious radio stations” primarily Christian radio. The statistics were recently presented in a members’ communication from NRB, the trade association for Christian...
February 2026
Last week about this time, NRB 2026 was wrapping up. The NRB 2026 International Christian Media Convention had been an exciting, whirlwind week. More than 5,700 Christian media professionals attended, most from the United States but also 272 international attendees representing 43 other countries, according to the data released by the NRB association. Described by its organizers, the National Religious Broadcasters...
January 2026
So off to a busy dive right in start to 2026? Thrilled at the pace and accomplishments so far? Or, like some of us, finding the new year to be a challenge in not the best way? We’ve all heard more advice than we want to hear about hitting the ground running in the brand-new year, working toward the goals for 2026...
November 2025
Can’t judge a book by its cover, goes the old adage. But of course we do, all the time. The adage of course primarily refers to things other than books, but today we are going to discuss a few things about book covers. Did you know there’s a competition a Christian publishers organization organizes to recognize excellence in cover design? Pictured above, are...
