Historical fiction author Jody Hedlund, who’s also a prolific blogger, announced some Writing News today that caught my eye. Jody is a great communicator and has built a fantastic platform with non-obtrusive marketing, practical advise, and a very active social media presence. Nevertheless, she’s making some changes to her blogging schedule and approach. She writes: [...]
So Sean Hannity lost half his audience after the 2012 election. Hopefully, it’s a sign of things to come. No. I have nothing against Mr. Hannity. I probably agree with him more than not. I’m simply coming to believe that… Winning elections is not about politics, but culture. In After the Crack-Up, Lee Habeeb placed the [...]
If the last Presidential Election did anything, it reinforced my growing apathy toward political involvement, my distrust of “delivery systems” for news, and my fatalistic views about the state of America and its people. It appears we are heading toward Western Europe’s secularized welfare state model at a rapid clip, and there’s no way, nor [...]
Sadly, I do not live anywhere near Happy Planet’s Happiest Countries in the World 2012. Which means I must find joy in curating oddball lists of the years’ esoteric and arcane. But what a joy it is! Being that the U.S. economy continues to tank, suppose we start with Wired Magazine’s 8 Craziest Job Openings [...]
You may have caught this when I posted it to Facebook. My apologies. It’s a review of my last novel, The Telling. It made my day. Maybe, my year! Bunny Cates is a reviewer. She won a copy of my novel on Goodreads. Bunny selected it as her favorite read of October, describing the book [...]
The “Religiously Unaffiliated” is one of the fastest growing demographics in America. And that might be a good thing. By consensus, one of the top religion stories of 2012 was the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey showing that “nones” — those who claim to have no religious affiliations — is the fastest-growing [...]
I read about 20 books in 2012. I say “about” because a couple I didn’t finish (Do you count books you didn’t finish as “read”?) and the year will end with a few still unfinished. One-third of the books I read were non-fiction. The rest were fiction of the Speculative variety. I’m a slow reader. [...]
Leave it to Christian publishing’s trailblazer Jeff Gerke (founder of Christian spec-fic imprint Marcher Lord Press) to begin another imprint. But this one is sure to twist a few knickers. From Christian Retailing’s Marcher Press Launches “More Mature” Christian Imprint: “The core MLP readership is conservative and Christian, but many who need Christ will never [...]
For the next three days, my latest short story anthology “Subterranea” will be available as a free Kindle download. If you like dark fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction with a spiritual twist, you might enjoy this nine story collection. Download your own copy HERE. And feel free to share the link with your Friends and [...]
The day after the Connecticut school shooting, I posted this on Facebook: There’s several reasons why I have NO faith in our culture’s ability to diagnose, treat, and significantly curtail such incidents. Perhaps the main reason is this: We have no agreed upon paradigm for diagnosis. If the secularization of culture has done anything, it’s [...]
