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Whispers in the Pews: An Interview with Chris Morris (Part 2)

October 25, 2018 Comments Off

Editing the stories brought tears to my eyes so many times. Sometimes the tears were joyful, as I read of communities gathering around wounded people to bring hope, love, belonging, and a future. […]

Building a Fiction World through Your Blog

December 8, 2016 8

Novelists strive to draw readers into their characters’ worlds, tirelessly crafting scenes to develop realistic settings within the limits of one novel or a series […]

You Don’t Know What You Have Until It’s Not There

March 28, 2019 2

Inspire’s web site was down recently, for somewhere between 24-36 hours. As Inspire’s webmaster, I was only too aware of how significant the web site […]

How to Convert Your Manuscript from Word to Kindle Format in 5 Easy Steps (Part 2)

February 15, 2018 1

In the first part of this series, we looked at some initial considerations when preparing a manuscript for Kindle. Today, we’ll be covering Steps 1-3 […]

10 Ways to Strengthen Our Characters

March 3, 2012 Comments Off

Readers want strong main characters. No one wants to read a story with a weak one. I knew that. Really I did. Why, then, did […]

Becoming Known Part 4: Guest Blogging

September 11, 2015 6

If Jesus is your Senior Editor, He expects you to get your writing to the people who need to hear the message He’s leading you […]

What’s the Story about Late Responses?

August 3, 2017 6

I often get feedback from new writers who lament the long response time (or no response at all) to their requested queries/proposals/fulls to agents and […]