Zeke Lam, author of Submission, is our special guest today. Thanks for sharing on my blog today. Tell readers more about yourself. I am 27 years old and have been married to my beautiful wife, Kathleen, for 6 years. We have three children (4, 2, and 2 months) that we love very much. I have [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Review of The Devil in Pew Number Seven
Few books have touched me like this one. If I had to summarize it in two words, it would be ‘Forgiveness personified.’ The book begins by Rebecca telling her story. In a short time her life went from being a daughter of a happy country preacher, to a living hell when a power hungry man [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Beta readers – a goldmine of valuable feedback
In a previous article we talked about strategies, advantages, and pitfalls in critiquing. We all need the eyes of others to look over our work, but once the critiquing process is complete, the manuscript isn’t yet ready. It is my opinion that every manuscript should be read by non-writers. We as writers have a different [...]
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A reader’s response to I Called Him Dancer This storyline is about much more than dancing. The plot and characters carry the reader through a variety of life experiences, from failure and loss to love and redemption. I loved how he was able to develop the characters from young people to adults and weave their [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Book Launch for ‘I Called Him Dancer’!
Congratulations to Sherry Cunningham! Sherry is the winner of the Kindle 3. Congratulation to Dee Bradley! Dee is the winner of the $25 Amazon gift card. Congratulations to Suzanne Hartmann! She’s the winner of the book drawing. Thanks to everyone for making the launch week of I Called Him Dancer a big success! The contest [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Polishing your gems – 5 editing strategies (Part 3 of 3)
Using discernment in critique groups Critiques are often filled with both good and bad advice. For a writer, this can be confusing. Fellow writers sometimes attempt to impose their voice onto your work. Critiquing is not intended to cause writers to adopt a specific style of writing, but to identify problems that keep their voice [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Polishing your gems – 5 editing strategies (Part 2 of 3)
3. Helpful Tools There are a few helpful tools that assist writers in catching a large portion of mistakes. These tools will help you catch many errors, but the work is far from complete from our self-editing. Keep in mind, this is course grit polishing. These help smooth out the rough edges and find obvious [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Polishing your gems – 5 editing strategies (Part 1 of 3)
Once you finish writing your manuscript, the work of self-editing begins. Self-editing is the process of catching the obvious mistakes so you don’t waste critiquing time with the little stuff. A critique partner or an editor should only see your work after it’s polished as far as you can take it. With very few exceptions, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Author Inteview – Erin Rainwater
How long have you been writing? A girlfriend and I began co-authoring a book about twin girls and their horses when we were in grade school. We never finished it, and I have no idea what happened to it, although I’m pretty sure it ended up in the landfill. My next writing effort didn’t come [...]
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Christian Fiction - I Called Him Dancer officially launched April 12th.
