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This morning, I couldn’t believe the subject line of an email from Publisher’s Weekly. “THE BEST FIRST CHAPTER YOU’LL EVER READ.” All caps and everything. Come on, I thought, what a stunt. I had not opened a PW email in some time, but I felt had to open this one just to prove the falseness [...]
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In preparing a story for submission this morning, I was sorting through my old stories. In that process, I stumbled onto these old posts from two years ago (before I started dumping hours and hours into a neverending zombie novel).
Comments on God’s Blog
What would happen if God got a blog or some other kind of [...]
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First, Road Trips
Yup. We’re off. We borrowed a van, scrimped for gas, and headed out for a tour of the south with stops in Galveston Island (aunt and uncle), Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Starkville (grandma), Mississippi; and Ruston (brother), Louisiana.
High gas prices, you say? Pshaw.
No piddly increase in the cost of gas can stop the [...]
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Yesterday after we had our new pastor over for an old-fashioned pot roast lunch, complete with my wife’s to-die-for homemade chocolate pie, I found myself weeping while I did the dishes.
The pie really was that good, but it didn’t make me weep. And the pastor wasn’t picking on me. Or at least, he didn’t make [...]
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I’ve been emailing Austin Boyd back and forth a bit this week about his blog tour, trying to get his impression of its value. He gave me permission to post his comments here on my blog.
To set the context, Austin Boyd’s book The Return was featured on the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour [...]
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Yesterday, I wrote my thoughts on The Return‘s front cover, back cover, endorsements, and stuff.
Today, I’d like to do a quick community review of page one. As Camy Tang said recently, most readers give a book a page or two to hook the reader. She figures that’s about 20 seconds.
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To be fair, I should judge The Return by a little more than its cover, right? But we do need to start at the beginning with…
1) The cover
As a science fiction fan, this cover gets my attention. I recognize that photo from NASA’s archives. Looks like a genuine Rover shot, but I’m not really sure.
My [...]
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It seems things got pretty serious around here last week. And that’s a good reminder for writers. The business of writing can be a serious business at times.
But all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And Jill’s not much fun either. Pretty soon all they do is fetch water and [...]
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My poetry collection Barbies at Communion is on sale now from Amazon.com.
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