Writing tips All art is cosmos in chaos Leonard Bernstein tells me more than the dictionary when he says that for him music is cosmos in chaos. That has the ring of truth in my ears and sparks…
Uncategorized No one enters the presence of God except by God’s grace The New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine has told a particular story so often that I can hardly get it wrong, but you need to know that she is Jewish in…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips What should you look for in a mentor? What should you look for in a mentor, a person to accompany you on your creative journey? Here are some ideas, but this is certainly not an exhaustive list. Someone…
Marketing tips BE LIKE BEZOS No industry is experiencing more calamitous disruption than retail. Specifically, Amazon is reinventing commerce, customer experience, and the rules of consumer engagement. At first glance, Amazon appears to be the…
Writing tips Who will teach me to write? Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, the eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as…
Marketing tips, Writing tips In every line We tell our clients the same thing my filmmaker friends told me when I was writing screenplays: anything that doesn’t serve the plot has to go. Just because a tagline…
Writing tips Inseparable All right. So it’s an impossible task. But thinking about it may open new questions , new insights. And as I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings…
Writing tips Our fundamental “groupishness” In his significant book “Not in God’s Name”, Jonathan Sacks reverses a popular trope. It is not our religion that makes us violent, he says. Instead, it is our penchant…
Marketing tips Proudly Unreachable Let’s go back to the soap story for a moment. What does it reveal about the inevitable next rebellions? Here are five clues: My young friend built an emotional attachment…
Writing tips How Do You Find a Community for Creativity? Where do you find people who are good for you, who enhance your growth as an artist and who increase your confidence to keep up the work? For some people,…
Writing tips The work is not the vision Here is a fairly sober version of what happens in the small room between the writer and the work itself. It is similar to what happens between a painter and…
Marketing tips What the heck is going on here? I was visiting some young friends in my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, enjoying a lovely summer evening with steaming food and cold refreshments. When I visited their bathroom, I noticed…
Marketing tips Why Social Media Matters for Spiritual Writers As an author or author-to-be, social media is VERY important to you for many great reasons: First and most importantly, that is where your audience is! Jesse James was famously…
Publishing tips An Interview with Acquiring Editors – Part 2 - byAngela Scheff This week we’re going to discuss what they specifically look for in proposals. How many proposals do you review on average in a month? What…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The Three Crucial Questions So how do we make the story our company is telling clear? Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise. At no…
Writing tips Reassert your mastery I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for…
Uncategorized Creativity: More Possibilities Because God is in all things, every moment of your life contains more possibilities than you can perceive. Because God is creative and has made you creative, you can count…
Uncategorized The Power of Making Friends at Writing Conferences by Jackie Holness I was blessed to attend the inaugural Publishing in Color (PIC) conference in 2018 at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey. I loved that…
Writing tips Stimulating Creativity Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way offers a lot of good ideas for stimulating creativity. One of the most helpful for me is the artist’s date: once a week doing something…
