Between my day job and speaking at writing conferences, it’s the rare month that I’m not on the road somewhere. This time, it’s Texas, for the day job. Travel doesn’t hold the same wide-eyed appeal for me that it did when I was nineteen and headed for Minneapolis for the first time in my life.… Continue reading Of Travel and Being Prepared
The Weight
I’ve lost close to a hundred pounds twice in my life. Both times, when I was tantalizingly near the goal… five or ten pounds away… I eased up. I quit monitoring my eating habits. And in both cases, the pounds came back on a lot faster than they’d gone off. There can be a temptation… Continue reading The Weight
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