The New Authors Fellowship

I recently taught at my church out of Cheri Cowell’s excellent book Direction: Discernment for the Decisions of Your Life. One of the most eye-opening key lessons from this book is its debunking of the idea that if the way is clear, that must be God’s will. To sum up Cowell’s point up in my […]

My husband and I just watched the season finale of Castle. As is often the case any more, the season ended on a cliffhanger. Without giving away any spoilers, the last scene left us at a pivotal moment that will change the course of the show, but we the viewers must wait the entire summer […]

The longer you’re in the writing world, the more advice you will receive about the writing craft and the more arguments you will hear disputing the advice given about the writing craft. One of those areas of dispute is where to start your story. Some say begin in the action to hook the reader, and […]

I recently finished Heir of Novron, the final two books of the Ryria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan. I can honestly say this is one of the best books I’ve read – particularly the final book. I won’t give any spoilers, but there’s only a few books that have tugged on my emotions at the […]

Mother’s come in all shapes and sizes–each one in different in their strengths and weaknesses. I am very grateful for the wonderful mother the Lord blessed me with. He knew that I would need a woman who was a good listener (after all, I am a born storyteller), patient, and a good example of a […]

Now that my manuscript is safely in the hands of my publisher, and the illustrator has finished the map (squee!), the next step in the publishing process is the cover design. Yoikes. After spending the better part of two days sifting through stock photos, I now despair of finding a girl who really looks like […]

I recently saw a link to an article someone posted on Facebook about a study that was done to see if people ate less when calories were posted next to the menu items. There were menus with just the food item, the food item with the calories listed, and menus with the food item, the […]

Guest Blogger: Karina Fabian Greater Treasures is my first foray into self-publishing. I chose to do so with this novel for a variety of reasons that I write about in other blogs, but the thing I’d like you to know is that it was not because I could not find a publisher for the book […]

  Will Ramirez: Author: Will Ramirez WIP: Sky Calling Target Word count: 100,000 Current Word count: 21,000 Goal date to finish: August 30, 2013 Draft/ editing version: 1st Draft Toughest challenge you’ve faced this month: Getting back into the swing of first draft writing after focusing so much on editing lately. Biggest Encouragements: Getting my […]