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!
Category: Writing
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
Have Some Fun with It!
I did a creativity presentation this week for Capital Christian Writers in the Virginia suburbs. I think CCW was the second group I spoke to after becoming editor of Writer’s Digest magazine in November 1998, so it was a real treat when I moved to this area to be able to become a member.
Holy Spirit Moments
It was about this time five years ago that I came up with the nerve to e-mail Anna LaNave. I’d been going to Mass at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Arlington, seven blocks from my apartment, for about a month, and had seen a bulletin announcement about Landings, a program for those considering a return… Continue reading Holy Spirit Moments