I have a delightful interview in store for you today with author Elizabeth Noyes. Bookmark this page because you’re going to want to come back to her advice at all stages of your writing journey. Imperfect Wings, published by Write Integrity Press and released August 1, 2014, is Elizabeth’s first full novel. She is a…
I’m blogging over at the Palmetto Christian Writers Network today. Come join me for 5 Steps to Capture and Keep the Editor’s Interest.
The first thing we as writers must accomplish with our story is to hook our reader. But if we merely hook them, the reader can get away. So we must also then compel them to read on to the middle and then right through to the end of our story. We spur our reader to the…
Here are today’s markets. Read the writer’s guidelines thoroughly and study at least one sample issue before submitting. Prism Magazine, a publication of Evangelicals for Social Action, http://prismmagazine.org/writers-guidelines/ The Lookout is designed to provide Christian adults with true-to-the-Bible teaching about current topics to help them mature as believers and live in the world as faithful witnesses…
What was the big bad wolf’s goal in the story of the 3 little pigs? To have dinner. He needed to eat and the 3 pigs met the bill. The wolf was doing what came naturally to him. There was nothing evil about eating the pigs, but of course to the pigs, who stood to…
The historical romance Seeking Sophie takes place on Eagle Head Island, Maine, with Sophie Stalz and her new husband, lighthouse keeper Jackson Scott. So what better place for a booksigning than at a lighthouse. And that’s exactly where author Melody Balthaser launched her debut novel Seeking Sophie. Launched in September, the book has received nothing…
You want to write a best seller. What writer doesn’t? First you’ve got to come up with a good story idea. Then you’ve got to get that idea from Point A to Point Z and figure out everything in between. (That’s my hardest struggle — plotting.) You’ve got to hook your reader — and keep…
It’s done. I hit the send key last Friday. After two years of fighting with myself and the manuscript — and spiritual forces of darkness — the revised second edition of my book, titled Carried by Grace, is now with the publisher ready for her to work her layout magic. Help! My Husband Has Sexually…