I so enjoyed getting together with my editor friends and colleagues earlier this month at the Hotel Preston in Nashville for the sixth annual PENCON editors conference. On the last night of the conference, we announced the finalists in the 2019 Excellence in Editing Awards. This award celebrates newly released books that are superbly written, […]
Interested in screenwriting? Fiction? Nonfiction? Publishing? Marketing? Want to meet on-on-one with professionals in those areas? The SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference has it all. And it’s coming up next month! This year’s faculty includes keynoters Mesu Andrews and Pam Farrel, four literary agents, representatives from seventeen traditional publishing houses, two magazine publishers, five screenwriting professionals, […]
I’m thrilled to feature Carol Alwood on my blog today. Carol is one of the skilled authors on faculty for the 2019 SoCal Christian Writers Conference. I hope you enjoy her post as much as I have! — Lately I’ve been caught up in the rules of writing fiction. “Rules?” You may say, “There are no […]
“Why doesn’t somebody do something?” Ever ask that question? A few weeks before Easter in 1971, I began to wonder why no one had published an article on evidences for Jesus’ resurrection in our university newspaper, the Duke Chronicle. I was in my final year at Duke and had been following God for about three years. Our […]
If you’re like me, you’ve recently discovered that when you use your Wi-Fi hotspot, the data usage on your cell phone plan skyrockets. Concerned about overage charges, you added a couple of gigs to your plan. But it’s not enough. You’ve considered upgrading to unlimited data so you won’t have to worry about going over […]
Did you know that March 4 is National Grammar Day? For people like me, this is a major event! Please comment below about your pet grammar peeves, the funniest grammar mistakes you’ve seen, or the most embarrassing grammar mistakes you’ve made. My personal pet grammar peeve is the dictionary having two definitions for literallythat are diametric […]
The third annual SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference (www.SoCalCWC.com) will be held June 20-22, at Hope International University in Fullerton, California. Attend one day for $255, two days for $340, or all three days for $425. Inexpensive dorm lodging is available. Instructional options include continuing morning sessions on fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, memoir writing, platform, and editing. […]
My awesome friend Kelly Harrel has written a new book. Check it out! I fell in love with Danny Morton when I first heard his voice at two am. His biting remarks made me laugh and cringe at the same time. They also made me jump up to take notes. Maybe because once upon a […]
