All posts tagged Christian fiction

The Education of One White Woman

By Deborah Heal I consider my book Every Hill and Mountain as sort of like an assignment for a “continuing education program.” You know, that life-long one about becoming more sanctified. As slow as I’m learning things, I figure God may decide to keep me in school another hundred years or so before […]

Share Button

Staying Relevant (but keeping violence in YA fiction under control)

by Deborah Heal A Dangerous Trend I don’t believe fiction, especially Christian fiction for young people, needs gratuitous violence to make the plot exciting. I was happy to discover Wall Street Journal book reviewer Meghan Cox Gurdon and her Imprimus article, “The Case for Good Taste in Children’s Books.” In it she gives examples of […]

Share Button

Love Me Sane Book Signing

Hello Everyone, I had my first book signing for Love Me Sane on 8/31/2013 at the Barnes and Noble on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was elated by the amount of support I received from family and friends. This was also my birthday so I felt like a spiritual rebirth occurred. […]

Share Button

A Giveaway Featuring Unclaimed Legacy by Deborah Heal

A Giveaway Featuring Unclaimed Legacy by Deborah Heal   Here and now are the perfect place and time to get your copy of Unclaimed Legacy. Now? Because it’s only 99 cents for Kindle (for the month of September only). Here? Because buying it enters you in a giveaway of the complete Time and Again trilogy (personally signed by the author) AND a […]

Share Button

A Striking Observation for Writers

by Mary C. Findley Ecclesiastes 12: 11-12 The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd. But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the […]

Share Button

Show them “The Most Excellent Way”

R. M. Strong   Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. […]

Share Button

CrossReads Book Blast: Found Adrift by Pauline Creeden

Send to Kindle Found Adrift By Pauline Creeden About the Book Welcome fellow drifter. I don’t know about you, but I’m easily distracted. If God set me in a rowboat on the water and told me to pay attention and not let myself drift too far from the shoreline, I’m sure I’d be in the […]

Share Button

How Do You Revise or Edit Your Book?

By Susette Williams One thing I have come to realize is that not all indie authors have sought traditional publishing or gone the route of the traditional author in joining critique groups. Perhaps they didn’t realize that organized critique groups existed. Some have relied on friends, family members or on occasion they came […]

Share Button

Authors Share Their Funniest Stories P.2

By Beverly Nault This is part II of a post I started last week talking shop and having fun with published authors about their process. I know you’ll find their answers as interesting as I did. And when you’re finished, check out their books and blogs, especially if these excellent authors are new […]

Share Button

Reliving the Days of our Youth

By Suzanne D Williams Set aside your adult mindset for a moment and return with me to the days of your youth, to that time of life when all the little trivial things mattered – that your friends might see you wearing that awful shirt your grandmother bought you, that your hair has […]

Share Button