I didn’t know what a big deal Cec Murphey was when I met him back in the fall of 2002 at the Glorieta Christian Writers’ Conference. I didn’t know he was the author or ghostwriter of a zillion books… and that was before his success as coauthor of Ninety Minutes in Heaven. I didn’t know… Continue reading Transparency
Author: Melanie
Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
Come, Holy Spirit
Has there ever been a comfortable time to be a Catholic? You have to wonder. The Inquisition. The Reformation. Today’s pedophile scandals. Strange investigations into women religious. Bishops weighing in on political issues, seemingly at odds with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops‘ guidance. My column today at Your Daily Tripod speaks a bit to… Continue reading Come, Holy Spirit
Let’s Talk
Here’s the thing. I hate to talk on the phone. I don’t text in my real life (yes, I carry a Blackberry for work, and I use it, but that’s different). E-mail me, and you’ll get an answer, usually fairly quickly. Phone me… not so much. About the only people’s calls I’m 100 percent guaranteed… Continue reading Let’s Talk
Jesus in the Holy Water
In January 2003, some of the friends I’d made at the Green Lake Christian Writers’ Conference–we’d dubbed ourselves the BAGS, Bad-xxxxed Girls–came to see me in Cincinnati. A lot had changed for me since the previous summer. I was getting a new boss; the old friend who had brought me to the company in November 1998 was leaving. It… Continue reading Jesus in the Holy Water