Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Summer officially begins in a little less than a month. Of course, we all know that with Memorial Day the season really begins, regardless of what the calendar says. We sense those things that mark the real …
Life
I Love This Job
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
When I opened Facebook this morning, the first entry in my newsfeed was a congratulatory anniversary message. Facebook remembered that this month marked my 11th year with Books & Such Literary Management. Eleven years! Where does the …
Safety Tips for Writers
Blogger: Rachel Kent
When your book is published, you are a public persona. You suddenly have fans, and people from all over contact you. Your publisher expects you to put yourself out there as much as possible on the Internet …
Coloring Inside the Lines
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Yesterday Janet Grant blogged about how we need to be willing to take risk in publishing. I’ve always admired risk-takers— those people who put it all on the line and succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Of course …
Holy Week Music
Blogger: Rachel Kent
This post is one I posted a couple years ago on Good Friday. I am very sick today, so I decided it was a good day to discuss our favorite hymns/songs again. I hope you enjoy reflecting …
Priorities
Blogger: Mary Keeley
I began to prepare what I hoped would be a helpful post for the writing life for today, but something didn’t seem right, a check in my spirit. You’ve probably experienced spiritual unease that stops you in …
Coming Alongside
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I first wrote this blog in 2009. What fun to see that seven years later it is still true. As I get ready to head off to Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference– my 20th straight year of …
Lifelong Learning
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’ve long been an enthusiastic proponent of lifelong learning. Our education should not stop at high school or college. And these days, the opportunities for education are more varied and more affordable than ever before.
I started …
Email Creates Mayhem in Your Brain
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
You know how some blog post titles overreach, over-promise, and smack of snake oil salesmanship? That would not be this post’s title. The real con is the lie that we are more efficient when we multitask …
Surprised by Joy and Hope
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Yes, the title of today’s post is a takeoff on C. S. Lewis’s and N.T. Wright’s books, Surprised by Joy and Surprised by Hope respectively. Not for the spiritual giants who wrote them, but for the …