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
Category: Friendship
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
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