By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted It’s hard when you go against the grain – when your writing style isn’t what is trending at the time. I’ve always been a “write outside the box” sorta gal. The thing is, conference teachers loved my style but publishers were afraid. I’m a born and…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin After working with hundreds of authors on their books for decades as well as writing more than 60 nonfiction books for traditional publishers, I understand every book (of any type) has challenges to complete. The challenges are on multiple levels whether your book is for young…

By James Hannibal @jamesrhannibal Raise your hand if you love purple. I raised both my hands. I love purple.  Purple is the color of joint ops in the U.S. military. That’s when the Army, Air Force, etc. pretend to play nice together. Purple is also the color of the dragon…

By the Two Lindas of Personality @LindaGilden @LindaGoldfarb Recently a friend called. “How do you do this?” she demanded. “Do what?” I asked. “How do you sit there all day and write? Don’t you get bored? Are you tired of being by yourself?” I gave her a quick explanation of why…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 It’s beautifully disguised—my little pitfall in the backyard. The fun project? Planting flowers of every season in our back shrub bed. The problem? We took out too much dirt.  In our zeal for this new project, my family removed weeds and clumps of stubborn grass from…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Hey, suspense writer, have you ever been asked why anyone would read Christian suspense? Isn’t suspense a taste of reality, gritty, and violence runs through page after page? How can you manage the genre expectations in a Christian book? If that question hasn’t been posed to…