Going Fishing for Readers

So you’ve written a novel–say 75,000 words or more. Trust me, it feels like a major accomplishment just to string that many individual letters together into something that–maybe–makes sense. What do you need to do next? Write a synopsis. Yup,...

Going Where Jesus Is

I’m fortunate to live near the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove in Asheville, NC. Early each year Kendra Graham (wife of Will Graham, Billy’s grandson) leads a ladies’ Bible study. And it’s free! So a group of us from church go and get...

Banished Words for 2013

I’m so glad someone thought to do this. There are simply some words we need to STOP using. They’re overused, ineptly used, and to paraphrase Inigo Montoya, sometimes they just don’t mean what people think they mean. So here you go, the list of...