Merry Christmas! It’s Fiction Friday
It’s fiction Friday on the blog! In the spirit of the season, today’s fiction comes from Mary of Nazareth’s story.
It’s fiction Friday on the blog! In the spirit of the season, today’s fiction comes from Mary of Nazareth’s story.
Celebrate Christmas by traveling back in time and seeing the first Christmas through Mary’s eyes.
Authors do all sorts of crazy things to interest readers in their books. At a time when it feels a bit like the world had gone crazy, I thought it would be fun to apply one of these techniques to a blog post. It begins with a question that only your fictional characters can answer. …
Tomorrow is my birthday. Let’s celebrate by ME giving YOU another free peek inside my latest book. A Pondering Heart is the first in a series of biblical fiction that stretched both my faith and my writing ability. But you don’t care about that. You’ve read chapter one and chapter two, and now you’re ready …
This comes to you from chapter six of REFLECTIONS: A PONDERING HEART, the story of Jesus Christ from the journal of his mother, Mary. Is there a better way to spend Christmas than with the Christ? The sun’s last rays kissed the walls of Bethlehem as our group straggled within view of the city. Rather …
Write. Write some more. Right now I’m writing the first draft of the first two novellas in my new REFLECTIONS series. This isn’t the smooth and easy writing of fiction. Because I’m writing a fictionalization. Fiction? Fictionalization? Sounds the same to the average non-author type. Except fiction is something completely formed in my muse’s imagination. …
Eight stories that span the imagination, recreating Biblical events into dark tales featuring young adult heroes. Month9Books released their charity anthology on October 25, 2016. All the authors cite the “inspiration” for their retelling of common and obscure Bible stories. Two of the stories are more allegorical as opposed to straight retellings. With the exception …
May 5th and Reflections from a Pondering Heart is being released into the wide world of readers. Today, I’m offering readers of my blog a chance to win a copy of the book. I will give one eBook copy and one print copy (signed, of course) to randomly drawn commenters on today’s post. Now, for …
The release date of May 5, 2015 marks my calendar. On that day, the novella Reflections from a Pondering Heart wings its way to readers. As a first-time publisher of an independent title, I’m doing what even traditional authors do – seeking help from my readers. If you follow my blog, I expect that means you think …