by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea List-maker, list-maker, make me a list. But wait, make it for someone else, not me. Because I already have eight thousand lists of my own, thanks. A family member told me the other day that my stacks upon stacks of lists make me look like an organized…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt On January 16, 2008, I submitted an article which told the events of the evening my 10-month-old son stopped breathing in the back of an ambulance. I believed the magazine I submitted to was a perfect fit. I received a nice rejection letter telling me…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Confession time. Sometimes when I’m driving and realize I’m lost, I automatically turn down the radio. It’s not so I can hear the GPS. I turn down the radio even when there’s no GPS. Why do I do it? Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe it’s so I…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Do writers have anything in common with King David? According to a keynote speaker at the North Texas Christian Writers Conference ten years ago, the answer is yes. And I would agree with her. In the summer of 2010 I attended one of my very…

By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted Let me begin by giving you this somewhat obscure statement. For others, we must. I recently worked with a writer who'd never written a novel before and as we worked through her critique, I could hear the discouragement in her voice. Sympathetically, I asked, "Do you want…

By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites “I don’t understand why they chose another book when three publishers at the conference said they liked mine.” I confided in my good friend Sharon. My heart broke and I felt overlooked. Do you feel that way when you work so hard on a project out…