Kathy and Michele team up to interview Kathleen Kerr, Senior Editor at Harvest House Publishing. The question about whether or not you need to have an outline before you start writing your book is the main focus of today’s podcast.
Kathleen says, “At some point you’re going to have to put the puzzle pieces in order.” She goes on to talk about how it doesn’t necessarily matter when you outline but that you go back to the beginning and make sense of what you’ve written. She suggests sitting down with a friend and asking them to look over what you’ve written and having someone to be able to talk out loud to.
Kathleen Kerr is an acquisitions editor at Harvest House Publishers. She has a passion for finding new voices and helping writers craft the unique message God has laid on their hearts.
Meet Your Hosts
Kathi Lipp
Author, Speaker, Communicator Academy Creator and CEO
Communicator Academy founder, Leverage: The Speaker Conference creator and master instructor Kathi Lipp, is a national speaker and author of 16 books including “Clutter Free,” “The Get Yourself Organized Project,” and “The Husband Project.”
She is a frequent guest on radio and TV, and has been named Focus on the Family radio’s “Best of Broadcast.”
She is the host of the popular podcast “Clutter Free Academy with Kathi Lipp.”
Over the past 10 years, Kathi has helped hundreds of people increase their platform through teaching and coaching. She is a frequent teacher at writer’ s conferences and has helped countless authors and speakers find their audiences.
Kathi’s desire to help fellow speakers and authors avoid the mistakes she made, increase their confidence and be the person God made them to be, inspired her creation of Communicator Academy. The podcast as an extension of Communicator Academy is just another way Kathi wants to serve her audience.
Michele Cushatt
Author, Speaker, Mastermind Coach
As an experiened keynote speaker and emcee, Michele Cushatt’s speaking experience includes Women of Faith, Compassion International, and various retreats, conferences and events held across the country. She has also led radio, video and audio recording projects.
She co-hosted with Michael Hyatt on the popular This Is Your Life podcast. In addition, Michele serves as part of the Dynamic Communicators International leadership team, led by best-selling author and sought-after speaker Ken Davis.
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I recently interviewed Diane Dokko Kim about her experience as a first-time author and throughout the interview, she refereneced Communicator Academy. She said any time she had a question about the process or a problem to figure out, she’d find the answer here. She was right. This episode, in particular, is exactly what I need right now.