The new issue is available!
Craft Tips and Techniques from Today’s Blockbusters
P.S.. I Love You and the Art of Flashbacks
Plant clues to the past to raise your reader’s curiosity…
P.S.: I really, really love you!
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This month's Christian Fiction Online Article
…But instead of one of them, there’s a flock of look-alike dresses, all fitting (painfully) differently on each attendant…
What we can learn from 27 Dresses?
The problem with bridesmaids dresses is that they’re overcute. Especially the ones from the ’80s—you know what I’m talking about. Go to your closet,
How it all began…
Check out this fun interview I did with Gina Conroy from Writer, Interrupted during ICRS!
Taming Rafe in Wally World
It’s long been a dream of mine to walk into a Walmart somewhere in America and find one of my books on the shelf. Not in the bulk pile, but on the shelf next to my favorite authors like Karen Kingsbury and Ted Dekker….
And it happened yesterday. There I was, browsing the Palm Bay Wally World for suntan oil and WHALLA!
Oooh…girl! Look at you!
My Book Therapy got a face lift…
Check it out!
CFBA has a new on-line magazine. It ROCKS…chock full of HELPFUL and interesting articles. They really have done a wonderful job pulling from all facets of the Christian publishing industry. Way to go guys.
Oh…and I was lucky enough to be in the PREMIERE issue.
Craft Tips and Techniques from Today’s Blockbusters
If you haven’t seen August Rush,
Ask a Writer Anything: What Is A Happy Ending?
Melissa asked: Why does every book have to have a happy ending? Don’t get me wrong, I like the happy ending, but at the same time there are a few books that I have read that totally threw me by not having the expected happy ending, the guy didn’t get the girl, and they didn’t live happily ever after with 2.5 kids and a dog.
Ask a Writer Anything: What's Your Secret
Hannah asked: I always wondered how a author can write so many books and still have such good endings and plots etc. So what’s your secret to writing? Lol!
Oh, thank you for those kind words! I love to write, and I’m always on the hunt for a great story! I’m actually very dangerous to have around – just last week I was sitting in a restaurant and accidentally overheard a person talk on their cell phone (have you ever noticed how loud people are on their cell phones?).
Ask a Writer Anything: Getting Noticed
Tawni asked: How do you go about getting your story noticed by a publisher? My daughter is 15 and loves to write.
Getting noticed in today’s market – whether you’re published, or not, it always a challenge. There is always another great book out there, always a story that is similar to your own.
Ask a Writer Anything: Who Impacted Me Most
Sarah asked: The one author who has impacted me the most?
I know I’ve answered my favorite writers, (Dee Henderson, my buddy Rachel Hauck, and many others) but as for the one that impacted me the most, it must have been Francine Rivers. When I read her Mark of the Lion series,