If you’re an author or an avid reader you are expected to support and champion local bookstores. Which makes me, sort of, a pariah. Confession: I probably purchase 90% of my books through Amazon.com. Not only that, I don’t feel obligated to support local indie bookstores. When Borders went out of business, there was much [...]
I love great cover art, and today over at Novel Rocket I’ve posted my choices for The 10 Best Christian Fiction Covers of 2011. Love to know what you think.
From our clan to yours, here’s wishing you a blessed Christmas and a New Year over-flowing with health, prosperity, and ingenuity!
That’s the working title for my third full-length novel. With The Telling scheduled for release in May 2012, I’ve been hard at work on another project. It’s a little different direction than some of my other stuff, a straight-up Urban Fantasy full of pulp, romance, ghouls, and metaphysical wrangling. ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY: A paranormal investigator [...]
Earlier this year, Guardian writer Damien G. Walter asked readers to select their favorite sci-fi novels. More than 500 titles were suggested. However, after a bit of number-crunching on the stats, Seattle-based author Nicola Griffith suggested the list revealed an overwhelming bias towards male authors. This isn’t the first time sexism has been blamed for [...]
Last Monday evening, my son called us, his voice cracking with emotion. He had to pass the phone to his wife who informed us that one of the elders of our church had been shot and killed in an attempted robbery in Honduras. I was just beginning to get to know Steve Holtrust, a gentle [...]
A recent article at Transpositions entitled C.S. Lewis’ Guidelines for a Christian Journal takes an interesting approach to the subject of Christian art. In it, the author Cole Matson quotes Lewis’ advice to Laurence Whistler about the creation of a Christian literary journal. His three guidelines for such a journal: ‘I think the Periodical ought [...]
I’ve been offered a chance to lead a workshop at a Christian writers conference, which I’m just thrilled about. Can’t say much more than that right now. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about possible workshop subjects and was wondering, if you were attending a writers conference, which of these possible topics would most interest you? WORKSHOP [...]
Somewhere along the way, equality of opportunity has been confused with equality of results. Democracy, in theory, creates equality of opportunity. A level playing field, a fair shake. However, democracy cannot guarantee equality of outcome. For instance, giving every citizen one million dollars would be no guarantee of equality of outcome. Thus… PERSON A invests [...]
