Coming Home

The publisher of When They Come Home: Ways to Welcome Returning Catholics, the book I coauthored with Anna LaNave, recently interviewed us for a podcast. You can check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjfRczhLqs. As we prepare for the beginning of Advent later this month, I thought I’d share the story of the day I mustered up

Writing Like the Wind

I’ve got what may be the best first chapter ever written for a coming-of-age novel, based loosely on the summer I turned nine. But that’s all I’ve got; with that particular manuscript, every time

Transparency

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