{"id":264,"date":"2009-01-21T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/01\/collide-promotion-and-other-thoughts.html"},"modified":"2009-01-21T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T07:18:00","slug":"collide-promotion-and-other-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/01\/collide-promotion-and-other-thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"Collide Promotion and Other Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/articles\/archive\/3\/images\/current_magazine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 187px;height: 231px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/articles\/archive\/3\/images\/current_magazine.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span>A couple of days ago<\/span> I linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/article\/161\/the-prodigal-fun\">an article<\/a> I wrote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Collide Magazine<\/span><\/a>, an excellent and growing publication about the collision of religion and media. I think <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Collide<\/span> is doing a lot of things right. It&#8217;s well-designed, it&#8217;s thoughtful, it&#8217;s aiming at a solid demographic, and &#8212; this is important to me but probably seems selfish to some &#8212; it treats its writers very well.<\/p>\n<p>To put succinctly, I like <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Collide<\/span> a lot and am impressed with the magazine. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m happy to announce that they&#8217;ve just introduced a new promotion involving <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jasonboyett.com\/2008\/05\/nine-thousand-fifty-three.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Pocket Guide to the Bible<\/span><\/a>. For a limited time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/blog\/index.php\/585\/while-supplies-last\">if you subscribe now, you&#8217;ll receive a free, signed copy of my last book<\/a>. A one-year print subscription is $14.95, which is a very reasonable price considering you&#8217;ll get six issues of the magazine and an fun, entertaining book (if I do say so myself&#8230;and I do) signed with scrawling penmanship by yours truly. Also you&#8217;ll get to read occasional stuff I write for the magazine.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/index.cfm?event=subscriber.add\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 440px;height: 110px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/collideblog-boyettad.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my pitch. If you haven&#8217;t bought my book yet from me, get it from <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Collide<\/span> with your paid subscription. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collidemagazine.com\/index.cfm?event=subscriber.add\">Here&#8217;s where you can sign up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span>Now, for other some thoughts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">1.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Battlestar Galactica<\/span><\/a> returned last weekend for its final half-season. Do any of you nerds watch it? Because I do. I wear the BSG Nerd label proudly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">2.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/lost\/index?pn=index\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lost<\/span><\/a> returns tonight. With BSG and yesterday&#8217;s Inauguration and now <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lost<\/span>, this week is like a perfect storm for pop culture nerds. What do you expect this season? Any clues?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">3.<\/span> Have you heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandreefjob.com\/\">Australia&#8217;s &#8220;Best Job In the World&#8221; promotion<\/a>? It involves, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090113\/od_afp\/lifestyleaustraliatourismoffbeat_20090113032028\">lots of hanging out at the beach and blogging<\/a>. And a real, live salary to do so. Anyone planning to apply? I seriously thought about it, and definitely would have were I single. Not so sure it would work with a family, though. If you haven&#8217;t yet applied, get after it. Applications close in a month.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Happy Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I linked to an article I wrote for Collide Magazine, an excellent and growing publication about the collision of religion and media. I think Collide is doing a lot of things right. 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