I find myself in a particularly busy season of life. This is due, in large part, to an abundance of blessings. Three of those blessings are ages six, three, and five months. The other blessings are writing (for pay!) deadlines and a new home. This week is crazy. We are […]
Amazing Grace
I look at the pattern on the top of a pine cone and am fascinated by its rhythmically increasing woody scales. I notice the fiddleheads of the ferns and their identical unfurling symmetry. A few steps away, I take a closer look at the sweet woodruff and its whorled, leaves […]
CWG Prayer Chain Post: May 16, 2011
The CWG Prayer Chain Post is a weekly post for members to include their special intentions by adding a comment. This is a very busy time of the year for most people. Graduations, end of school year events, yard work, activities, spring cleaning, etc., etc. and ETC. Take the time […]
Books in Heaven
There are books in heaven. Well, figuratively. First, there’s the scroll written on both sides with the 7 seals described in Revelation 5, with the 4 horses and riders of doom. Then there’s a ‘little book’ that John is told to eat in chapter 10. Then, in chapter 20, there […]
CWG NEWS
Hail and Praises to… Ann Margaret Lewis’ Gold Medal IPPY award for Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes. Ann Lewis’ Murder in the Vatican tied for first place in the Religious Fiction Category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Some 2,000 authors and publishers engaged in the […]
Blogger’s Block
I’ve been mulling over Karina‘s excellent discussions about the lie of writer’s block and busting it when I realized that I have a secret weapon. Blogging. Admittedly, I’m a little crazy. (I blame the baby. You should, too.) Even so, for me, blogging lets me stretch my writing muscles before […]
Zigzagging through Time
Last week we talked about the importance of accurate order within a sentence or paragraph. Today we’re looking at the same type of problem, but when it occurs on a much larger scale: Zigzagging through time as we move from scene to scene within a story. Watch out for this […]
CWG Prayer Chain Post: May 9, 2011
The CWG Prayer Chain Post is a weekly post for members to include their special intentions by adding a comment. …that your faith and hope should be in God -1Peter: 21 The May intention prayer, to remind us of the basic principals handed down to us from those early days, […]
A Self-Published Author’s Best Friends
Nowadays, because it is so easy to publish your own book, first-time self-publishers often don’t realize that many people are involved in the production of a good quality book: editors, cover designers, proofreaders, copy-editors. Writing a book is only one step in a long process. It’s important for self-published authors […]
The Story Before the Story
I’m beginning the third mystery/thriller in the series that began with BLEEDER and continues in VIPER. At this stage there are all sorts of thoughts swimming in one’s head, and one of them is ‘what happened long before this story began’? What has happened in my characters’ families, education, careers […]