Living with our choices
At writers’ conferences, I frequently meet people who waited until they retired to start writing. That really helps me get over the feeling that it’s taken forever to reach publication with my own book. But we all live with the results of our choices. Those older writers chose to focus on their careers. That’s a […]
Where is that Gentle Voice of Christ?
Guest Blogger: Ariel Benjamin When Paul said, “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them” (2 Corinthians 5:19), he spoke words of love to the Corinthians, revealing that God’s action through Christ relieved them of condemnation. But Christian responses to other Christians are starting to sound more like […]
Maybe God doesn’t care
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 […]
Putting a face to a character
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 […]
Five Tips for Self-Publishing
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 […]
How to make a meme
Most people use “meme” to describe those pictures you see on Facebook and elsewhere. Like this: Really, “meme” describes the idea, not the image. A “meme” can also be a behavior. But for purposes of this discussion, I’ll go ahead and use meme in its graphical sense. Memes seem to get passed around more than […]
When to stop editing and just ship it
When this comic made the rounds on Facebook, the resonance it generated was astounding, though perhaps it shouldn’t have been. It just happened to show up in my feed right after I sent my manuscript to my publisher. And yes, letting go was hard, especially after I found a typo in what was supposed to […]
Words of wisdom from Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman may be one of the best speculative fiction writers around. Well, one of the best writers, period. So when he speaks, I listen. First, a talk about books and e-books: Next, and pardon me if you’ve heard this one before, a talk about writing and art:
