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Happy Easter!
I hope everyone is having a great Easter weekend. We’re having quite the snowfall today, several inches and still falling. Weird! But hey, it’s Colorado so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’m writing this on my Blackberry so this is actually just a test post. Back tomorrow!
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By His Wounds We Are Healed
No regular post today in honor of Good Friday. Have a Happy Easter and I’ll see you on Monday. He was despised and rejected by men,a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.Like one from whom men hide their faceshe was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmitiesand carried our…
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Off to Seattle
Today I’m flying from Dallas to Seattle, where I’ll be this whole week. For the next five days, I’m posting previously written columns you may have missed. Most of the week we’ll be talking about platform. Hope you find this helpful!
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Special Sunday Post: Did You Know?
Take five minutes to watch this… I think you’ll be fascinated.
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Let’s Lighten Things Up!
A writer died and was given the option of going to heaven or hell. She decided to check out each place first. As the writer descended into the fiery pits, she saw row upon row of writers chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they were repeatedly whipped with thorny lashes.…
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Happy Presidents Day!
Did you know that the official designation of today’s holiday is Washington’s Birthday? (Not Presidents Day.) Read a long and involved explanation here. Whatever! Here are some presidential quotes for you today. In honor of all our Presidents. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like…
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Two New Releases on Marriage
One thing I want to do more on the blog this year is let you know about new releases from WordServe clients. It’s more than just self-promotion and kudos to the author (although admittedly, that’s part of it). I also hope that by telling you a little about each book’s journey to publication, I can…
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Contest Finalists… and Holiday Schedule
Good morning and happy Hanukkah! We have contest finalists today… and we’re VOTING. A big thank-you to everyone who scribbled down the first thing that came to mind worked long and hard to compose your beauiful haiku for the 17 Syllables Contest. Here are the five I’ve chosen as finalists. VOTE IN THE SIDEBAR. One…
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We Have a Winner
THANKS to everyone for your jokes! They were SOOOO funny and I had lots of LOL moments, as I’m sure all the readers did. Thank you for contributing! (If you haven’t read the jokes, click here for Friday’s post and read the comments section. It’s hilarious!) It was *hard* picking a favorite, but I did.…
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Contest Final!
Congratulations to Christy for winning the contest! (Please contact me via email.) Kudos to all of you in the top six – great job. Thanks to EVERYONE who entered, commented and voted. I hope this was a little bit helpful and instructive. (Scroll down for today’s actual post.)
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Vote for Contest Winner!
Thanks to all of you who entered the Show vs. Tell contest! I was impressed with the entries and can see everyone really working on “showing” in their writing. If you want to tell us about your experience with this exercise, leave a comment here. Was it harder than you thought it would be? Did…
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Straight from the Source
I had a conversation with Sue Brower, Senior Acquisitions Editor for fiction at Zondervan, about the Mt. Hermon contest, and she had some clarifications for us. First, there was a question from a blog commenter about ChristianManuscriptSubmission.com, a service that Zondervan sometimes uses to find fiction. Sue says, “the writer still has a better chance…
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