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Conference Confidence: Know Your Editors
Here’s a short but sweet assignment. Print out the entire ACFW (or other conference) editor and agent list. Then study them! Visit their websites. Read their guidelines. Highlight the people who are accepting your genre and forget those publishing houses that are not looking for what you write. Know what your editor wants before you…
Interview With Mary DeMuth on Authentic Parenting
In one sentence, what is Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture about? It’s about learning how to parent our kids in a winsome, authentic way, so that our kids are well-prepared to face life when they leave home. The title sounds a bit intimidating and intellectual for me, a homeschooling mom of four who can…
Free Blog Header or Watercolor
The amazing and talented Heather @ Graced by Christ is giving away a free blog header or water color to one lucky person! So hurry over and enter! The contest ends tomorrow. (Sorry, I didn’t announce it sooner!)
Friendless?
Do you remember that I LOVE LUCY episode where Lucy feels like she hasn’t a friend in the world? I can’t remember what caused her to feel this way, probably a spat with Ethel, but I can see it so cleary. Lucy slumped on a park bench, feeling sorry for herself. Then someone comes a…
Not Such a Bad Idea!
I just started reading Todd and Jedd Hafer’s book Bad Idea, and I’ve got to say when I read the back cover about a guy on a cross country trip, it didn’t appeal to me. Then the buzz started. “This book is hilarious,” someone said. “It blew me away,” said another. So when I had…
Pitching & One Sheets
Follow up from last pitches: Thanks everyone for you help with my pitch. I’m still tweaking it, but here is the latest. Feel free to add your two cents in the comment section. Mari Duggins, an ambitious archeology professor, longs for the approval she believes her dream job as co-host of the local morning show…
Return to Me by Robin Lee Hatcher
This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducing RETURN TO ME byRobin Lee HatcherABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robin is the author of over fifty novels, including Catching Katie, named one of the Best Books of 2004 by Library Journal. Winner of the Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction, two RITA Awards for Best Inspirational Romance, and…
GROWING GRAMMAR: Modifiers…do you know where yours are?
Modifiers are like teenagers: they fall in love with whatever they’re next to. Make sure they’re next to something they ought to modify! (from The Guide to Grammar and Writing sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation) Unlike luxury cars, modifiers are not equipped with navigation systems. They get lost, they dangle, they confuse. Hmmm…starting…
Prayer Needed!
UPDATE: Chris went to the clinic where the doctor thinks it was a combination of injesting river water (nausea), dehyration, sinus drainage (sore throat and nausea) but I’m still thinking there’s a chance of strep since Grace had it 2 weeks ago, so we’ll probably take him into our doctor tomorrow. Right now he’s sacked…
A Camping They Have Gone…
I can remember the first time Chris went to sleep away camp. I was a nervous wreck! There was sooo much to worry about. That was about 4 years ago. Chris and Joey left for camp earlier this week and while I had my initial motherly worries, there was no fear. Of course we’ve prayed…