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

Small Is Beautiful!

I’ve been asked again to judge a category in the Independent Book Publishers Association‘s Ben Franklin Awards.  If you’re not familiar with the IBPA, it’s an organization of smaller publishers… not necessarily self-publishers, though some members are self-publishers, but also of independent publishers with dozens of titles that aren’t part of multinational conglomerates. Judging the… Continue reading Small Is Beautiful!

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