Three beautiful gifts from heaven and the knowledge that another waits in heaven for us. I have been blessed with smart, beautiful, fun-loving children. Kids who push me, challenge me, love me — even when I have to spend time writing and on other projects. I can’t imagine my life without them and am so grateful that God has entrusted …
Life is sometimes a valley
Most of you know that I had a miscarriage almost two years ago. Last week I was blind-sided again by grief. It is amazing how life can be flowing — busy but so good — and then, wham! I’m back in that place. I suppose all grief is like that. I’m just pretty inexperienced at it. Last week two events …
Yet another reason I don’t watch the View
Homeschooled kids are demented. Hmm. That’s what I’ve been called often. You can watch the clip here. But don’t watch if you don’t want to be annoyed. Ugh. So narrow-minded — and they call conservatives narrow-minded. And skip the first 6 minutes of nothingness.
Christian fiction discussion continued
Karen Ball is continuing her series on Christian fiction and what it is. As she mentions and as your comments from last week reinforce, this is a hot topic. I remember the discussions she refers to — um, I think I helped instigate the one at ACFW with my check the box conversion scene comment while moderating the editor panels. …
Snapfish v. Shutterfly: Photobook wars :-)
This week, I’m going to deviate very slightly from a book review. I have lots of great books to tell you about, but Christmas is bearing down on us, so I wanted to talk about books you can make. I’m talking photobooks. I am an avid scrapbooker. But the reality of having a baby, three books release this year, writing …
This couldn’t wait to post :-)
Hot off the camera and real life. This is what big brothers are for 🙂 Fortunately, she enjoys the attention. And here’s a link to a great interview with Doc Hensley on writing more efficiently. If I wrote more non-fiction, I’d definitely adopt his approach. Wow! Talk about maximizing time and effort.
It’s a long ball game
Writing is a long ball game. You can’t go into it thinking you’ll have a contract in a year. It’s lots of days of methodical plodding along. Putting one foot in front of another. One more time sitting in your chair, fingers attached to the keyboard when there are dozens of other things that seem more appealing. Makes me think …
Congratulations!
To reborn butterfly and stonefox who won copies of Diamond Duo!
What Makes a Christian Book Christian?
Here’s a question that my friend Karen Ball posted on her blog: What makes a Christian book Christian? I look forward to reading what the editors discussed when she posts it later, but here are my thoughts. If you can’t tell, I’m kind of passionate about this: Some of my bias probably came through at ACFW. I don’t want a …
Great Reads this Week
I’m currently reading three books: Shade by John Olson: Not letting myself get deeply into this book yet, becuase I know once I do, I won’t be able to put this down. John’s editor, Karen Ball, believed so deeply in this book that she worked for close to ten years to find the right home for it. It’s the vampire …