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Jill Elizabeth Nelson here, ready to launch you on a voyage of peril and discovery! An epic journey. . . All right, I’ll lay off the melodrama. This is a project, okay? And it’s going to have its hair pulling moments, guaranteed, but I found the pain worth the gain. At a recent mini-retreat with…
Learning from Loss
Imagine losing everything. It’s bad enough worrying about losing all my WIPs to a computer crash, but after this past Monday, such anxieties seem pretty small scale. You see, this past Monday, my husband’s sister and her family lost everything in a house fire. Everything but each other. These things happen and we all wonder…
The Final Countdown
Does anyone remember the eighties hair band, Europe? Today their song “The Final Countdown” has been playing over and over in my head. It sounds silly, but now that the countdown to Ruby Among Us is less than two months away, I’m really starting to get excited. “The Final Countdown” just seems so fitting. There are…
The Publishing Route For Some
By W. Terry Whalin With a glance at my background, you can see that I’ve always been committed to traditional publishing. It’s an ongoing part of my work to continue training authors to successfully craft their book ideas for the biggest possible publisher. It’s why I love writers and have been continuing to answer their…
Writer Interrupted…to research
Help! I need to find out what a dead body looks like after being in the water for 24 hours (a bayou to be exact). Or, I need to describe how an alligator sounds. These are just a few things I had to stop writing on my current story and dig around until I found…
Raising Ragpickers
The savior in Og Mandino’s “The Greatest Miracle in the World” is a mysterious old man with an affinity for what he calls human rags. In the story Og is the rag-an ambitious, successful magazine publisher who is burning out faster than a single-shot firecracker. The irony is that his magazine is about Success, but…
What Lies Within
I got my first exposure to Karen Ball at the 2005 ACFW conference. It was my first writing conference, and she was the keynoter. She did an amazing job of blending humor, heart-wrenching honesty, and spiritual depth in her talks. What Lies Within is the first of her books that I have read all the…
When I Am Weak
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9 I don’t like to feel like a weak person. I’m sure it stems from my childhood. Growing up, I remember my dad screaming and yelling all the time. It was either that, or he wouldn’t speak to anyone…
Michelle Sutton’s review of The Betrayed by Lisa T. Bergren
About the book: A religious thriller. An epic historical. An award-winning author with one million books in print. Second in the breathtaking trilogy. The first book in Lisa T. Bergren’s Gifted trilogy, The Begotten, was hailed by Library Journal as “a full-bodied, absorbing tale that combines authentic historical detail with a universally appealing and gripping…
GROWING GRAMMAR: Where were you on National Grammar Day?
In case you neglected to mark this on your calendar, and since Hallmark has not yet officially designated it a greeting-card holiday, you may have missed: In the name of educational fun (and, no, that’s not an oxymoron), and to exercise your pointer finger, I’m providing the following links for your clicking: The Society for…