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Sunday Reflection 2: The Vine and the Branches
I always say that John 15 is my favorite chapter in all of Scripture, if I had to pick one. I just love the verse when Jesus says, “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me, you can do nothing.”…
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When empathy and creative writing collide
Has empathy ever made creative writing difficult for you? I had an interesting experience this afternoon, regarding revising a tough scene in book two. I was kind of dreading doing it. I’ve had two scenes make me cry revising them, one in book one of my trilogy (just released in a second edition) and one…
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Character Spotlight: Bennie the Faithful
I had originally thought to end the character spotlights with launch day on 6/15, but I realized that I hadn’t had an opportunity to spotlight one of my most “favoritest” of characters in my entire trilogy: Bendelof (BEN-deh-loff) Esper, or Bennie. Bennie is a farm girl from the region of Granharson, though the name of…
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IT’S PUB DAY! Why I went indie
People have asked me why I went indie, or tried to encourage me to seek a more traditional route to publication. Given that “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” just launched on Amazon and is on sale for 99 cents (the ebook version), I figured this is a great time to briefly explore that…
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My favorite street marker in Madrid
I’m a bit of a world traveler in my way, back from my days in graduate school, mostly. I almost got a PhD in Spanish literature, so I’ve spent a lot of time in Madrid. I actually finished my first draft of The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope there the summer after graduating with…
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On hope: why it’s worth fighting for
I find it intriguing that, as I work toward re-releasing my fantasy trilogy (and then a prequel), the publisher I’m working with suggested “The Fight for Hope” as a subtitle for the first installment. They suggested a few other subtitles, none of which I liked at all. “The Fight for Hope” grabbed at me, and…
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Thoughts on things coming full circle (my second edition and 9th anniversary of my conversion)
As I write this, it is Ascension Thursday on the liturgical calendar. That means tomorrow is the 9th liturgical calendar anniversary of my conversion experience–day one of the Pentecost Novena for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. May 30, 2014 upended my entire life. It made me see that I’d been putting my writing–my fantasy…
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On trust
I watched “The Italian Job” last night. I hadn’t watched it in about 12 years or so, and had only seen it once before. Something that struck me is a saying of the main character’s father, which she repeats: “I trust everyone. It’s the devil inside them I don’t trust.” That’s an intriguing line. I’d…
Creative Writing with the Crimson League 