Sneak Peek – The Me Project Video Trailer

by kathilipp | Sep 12, 2010 | Uncategorized | 9 comments

Take a look at video trailer for my new book, THE ME PROJECT (coming out February 1st, 2011.)  I mean, come on – how cute is this?!?

The Me Project by Kathi Lipp

Winners and Prayers

by kathilipp | Sep 9, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Really quick –

The winners from this week of giveaways are Amberly and Pam. Please send your mailing addresses to asst@kathilipp.com and we will get those books out to you!

Also – if you are the praying sort (and I know that many of you are :)) I would love your prayers this weekend.

First – Friday night and Saturday during the day, I will be in Monterey CA speaking at the Monterey Bay Resort (I know, I’m sufferin’ for Jesus) speaking to the women of Cornerstone Church of Dublin. I’m doing a retreat called Woman Interrupted – all about understanding the interruptions that God brings into our lives and how we respond.

Then, the amazing Roger is driving me straight to Antioch CA where I will be doing a Night of Comedy for the women of First Family Church. I will be featuring The Husband Project in a talk called Understanding Men and other Modern Day Miracles.

It is going to be a crazy weekend with lots of speaking, lots of driving, and lots of ministry. I would love your prayers. I will give you a mini-update on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

Author Feature and Book Giveaway – Susy Flory So Long Status Quo

by kathilipp | Sep 7, 2010 | Uncategorized | 5 comments

I love behind the scenes stuff in people’s lives (some people would call me nosy, but since I’m a writer, so it’s research…) So I have asked some of my favorite authors to tell me some of that behind the curtain stuff. Plus, being extra pushy, asked them to give away my favorite one of their books to one of my readers.

I start off the series with Susy Flory.

Kathi: When and why did you begin writing?

Susy: I always wanted to be a writer but because books and words were so important to me, I felt inadequate and intimidated and didn’t dare to give voice to my dream. I grew up not ever knowing a real living writer and so I felt intimidated, that writers were an elevated, highly evolved race that I could never be a part of. That changed in my late thirties when I went to my first writers conference at Mount Hermon. I will never forget my very first meal at the conference; I sat with an editor of a major Christian magazine and he was wearing a teeshirt and jeans. Moreover, his hair was messy and he seemed completely normal in every way. I was terrified but he chatted us all up and was very warm and friendly. He wasn’t that different from us after all. At that conference, as I came across more friendly editors, literary agents, and working writers, the idea of becoming a writer finally seemed doable. I could finally voice my dream.

Kathi: When did you first consider yourself a writer?

When I began to see that my words, sentences, and paragraphs touched people. Just recently, I visited a local group that was using So Long Status Quo as a group study. One woman came up to me before the study and told me a story; she had been reading chapter 1, where I wrote about being inspired by Harriet Tubman’s life of sacrifice and service and deciding to sell my jewelry and use the money to fund village water wells in Africa. This woman shared that she loved to travel and everywhere she went she bought a ring as a souvenir. After reading this particular chapter, she had counted her rings and found that she had accumulated 105! “I only have 10 fingers,” she told me. “I don’t need 105 rings.” She started selling her rings, and some other things, on eBay and so far she’s accumulated over $500 for well projects. When your words begin to make a difference in people’s lives, it’s time to trust yourself.

Kathi:Tell us about what you are working on now.

Susy: I’m collaborating with a blind 9-11 survivor named Michael Hingson on his book THUNDER DOG: A Blind Man, A Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero. It’s an amazing and inspirational story and will be released next fall by Thomas Nelson. I also have a book of true dog miracles called DOG TALES out next June with Harvest House. It’s all dogs for me right now and I don’t mind a bit!

Susy’s newest book is So Long Status Quo: What I Learned From Women Who Changed the World (Beacon Hill, 2009). So Long Status Quo chronicles Susy’s journey when, inspired by nine amazing women such as Mother Teresa, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mary Magdalene, she decided to get up off her comfy couch and try to change the world, starting in her own backyard.  Adventure and self-discovery ensued, ranging from a secret humanitarian mission to Cuba to learning how to weld, and from going on a fast to trading her jewelry for water.www.susyflory.com

To enter to win Susy’s book, just comment below by Thursday at Midnight and we will announce the winner next week.

How to Get Out of a Slump Part 2: Change Things Up

by kathilipp | Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

It was just a few short years ago that Roger and I were shopping at Ikea for bunk beds so that all our kids had a place to, well, sleep.

Now that 2/3s of the chickees have flown the coop, (one moved out the day I married Roger – nothing personal – Amamda at 18 didn’t want to share a room with a  13 year-old,)  Roger and I were back at Ikea with all the other parents who have shipped kids off to college, this time to buy a futon.

You see, Roger has his own room now. (Don’t worry, our marriage is still good.) Now that he is working full time from home, he desperately needed his own office. Both of us working from the desk in our bedroom was, let’s just say, less than marriage enhancing…

So Justen moved into Kimberly’s old room, Roger moved into the boy’s old room, and I have an office to myself.

It was a lot of work, clearing out closets, building new furniture, and clearing out old bunk beds. (BTW, if anyone in the San Jose area needs a wonderful metal bunk bed set, leave me a note in the comments. Free to a good home…)

It was a lot of work, but I also noticed something else. It was pretty inspiring.

There is just something about moving things around, getting out of your rut, that makes you be more creative.

Just as Roger and I were talking about what we wanted to get at Ikea, (an add on to a desk, a bookcase for Justen, a futon for Kimber so she would have a place to stay when she came back home…) I started to think of all sorts of ideas for my ministry. An idea for a new speaking topic. An idea for a series of booklets that I want to create, even an idea for a recipe that I want to try.

All from moving some books around.

If you are a stuck in a rut, here is a question: What could you move around?

I don’t mean on your calendar. I mean physically move around.

Seeing things in a new way will spark creativity in other areas of your life. Rearrange your laundry area – it could spark a thought for a new article, or a new bible study topic.

Could you rearrange your work space, rearrange your books, or rearrange your garden?

Tell me – what could you rearrange to spark your next great idea.