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5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 3

Posted on: 04/2/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee

Whenever I bring up the events at Columbine, young people become immediately engaged.

Each day in my blog this week I’ve been giving you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. (Already posted two- click here for Monday’s or Tuesday’s.) My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. I’m giving you one each day:

Conversation Springboard No. 3:

A videotape was discovered of the two Columbine killers—the two high school boys in Colorado who killed thirteen people on April 19, 1999. The two angry boys turned on the camera a month before their shooting spree and started bragging about their plans to kill everyone and how their parents didn’t have a clue Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 3”

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5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 1

Posted on: 03/31/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee

Each day in my blog this week I’m going to give you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. I’ll give you one each day this week:

Conversation Springboard No. 1:
A nationwide survey asked people about the appropriate use of cell phones in social settings such as mealtimes, meetings, and in classrooms. The answers varied considerably by the respondent’s age. The younger the person, the more they perceived texting as permissible in social settings. For example Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 1”

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Want to review either of Jonathan’s two brand new books?

Posted on: 03/17/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee

In just a few weeks you’ll see two brand new books from me on the shelves: Get Your Teenagers Talking, and The Guys Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. (THE GUY’S GUIDE is now available on Kindle)

Would you like to review one of these titles and get a free signed copy? If you would… keep reading.

Here’s the skinny. Both of these titles are hitting the shelves in April (although we are offering pre-orders of each on our site right now, and I’m signing all pre-orders). In order to boost Amazon sales, we need readers to post Amazon reviews. Here’s how this works Continue reading “Want to review either of Jonathan’s two brand new books?”

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Scared of e-Readers?

Posted on: 02/6/14 3:01 AM | by Jonathan McKee

This week someone asked me, “Has the shift towards Kindle and iBooks hurt your book sales as an author?”

For me the answer was easy. “Not at all. I think it’s helped it.”

Yes, it’s a fact e-readers are growing in popularity. According to a new PewResearchCenter report last month, “the percentage of adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen to 28%, up from 23% at the end of 2012.” But this same report reveals most people who read e-books, also read print books, with only 4% of readers being e-book only.

Why am I not concerned? Probably because most Continue reading “Scared of e-Readers?”

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The Perfect Gift

Posted on: 12/2/13 9:16 AM | by Jonathan McKee

Sure, a book is a nice gift… but how about a personally autographed book?

Better yet… how about a book personally autographed “to” someone by name?

Yes, I’m already experiencing writer’s cramp this month because this December I’m taking the time to personally autograph every book you order that you’d like to me sign “to” somebody.

It’s easy:

Buy any of my books HERE, already ON SALE 10% to 40% OFF!
Email me at [email protected] the moment you buy them and tell me who to sign them to. Send me a list- I’ll personally sign each book to each person Continue reading “The Perfect Gift”

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Guys, Girls… and Zombies

Posted on: 11/7/13 3:11 AM | by Jonathan McKee

Kid-reading-Zombie-book I’m still scratching my head a little bit about this The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide for Teenagers we put on the shelves just two month ago. It was difficult to get a Christian publisher to print anything with the word Zombie, but once we did… it’s now our top selling book on my site, the Youth Cartel site, and on Amazon.

Youth worker Josh from Kansas just emailed me today about his guys’ small group:

I’ve started my high school guys small group on your The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide for Teenagers. They are ecstatic about it. I had given them several options for resources for us to go through and they unanimously and rather vocally all wanted “The Zombie Book” as they call it Continue reading “Guys, Girls… and Zombies”

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