Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
All right, I’m just going to put this right out there. Anyone who has a blog or personal website or whatever and just ignores the 29th of February is crazy. How can you do that? You won’t get another chance to post on the 29th of February until 2012! So, whatever mundane duties your life … Read More “Leap Year” »
Do you love it? Do you love writing? When you can’t, when time or life or whatever prevents you from accessing your pen & paper, your keyboard, your microsoft word file, do you hunger for the moment you’ll have the chance again? Is telling a story, crafting a sentence, communicating a thought, an idea, an … Read More “For the Love of It” »
As evidenced even by comments in the last few months on this blog, it looks like some people were upset that Joraiem died at the end of Beyond the Summerland. All right, so that’s a little tongue-in-cheek. The outrage over Joraiem’s death (or “Jory” as a friend of mine likes to refer to him when … Read More “The Joraiem Factor” »
There are all kinds of reasons to write a book, and all kinds of people at some point, contemplate writing a book, actually sit down and write a book, or even vigorously pursue publishing a book. No doubt, then, there’s some artificiality in all attempts to say what “writers” are or are not, since those … Read More “Writers & Storytellers” »
A definite perquisite of being a published writer, is that on occasion, you get a crack at reading a book that is on its way toward being published but is, as yet, not in print. I don’t know why it is quite so much fun to curl up with a book that isn’t yet available … Read More “Sneak Peaks & Creative Diversity” »
So, I wrote the first page of a new series today. I thought I’d post that little tidbit, since it was a big deal for me. I’m nowhere close to ready to actually write the series, but I’ve been planning and conceiving and envisioning so much lately, I just needed to write. I have no … Read More “A New Start” »
On my sidebar you’ll see a link under “Other Sites” to the artwork of my friend, Connell Byrne. I wanted to explain more about why it is there. Back in 2002, when I first signed my contract with P&R to write The Binding of the Blade, discussions about cover art and artists began. As those … Read More “The Cover That Wasn’t” »
So, I mentioned at the end of my last post that many times when people find out I’ve been finished with All My Holy Mountain since ’06, they ask me what I’ve been doing since then. This post is an update on my writing-life from mid-’06 to the end of ’07 for those who are … Read More ““Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…”” »
2008 is here. Finally. I say that, because the release of my first novel Beyond the Summerland in 2004, the knowledge that my publisher wanted to release the 4 additional books in that series at a pace of one a year, and a little basic math told me that 2008 would be the year that … Read More “All My Holy Mountain” »
For my first post on this blog about my fantasy series, The Binding of the Blade, I wanted to take a moment to explain the title. For those who haven’t read any of the books, I’ll try not to give too much away. For those who have, this is probably stating the obvious, but I … Read More “Binding of the Blade” »