Christian Author
Young Adult Fiction
A book trailer! All the marketing gurus advised me of its merits to authors of young adult books: teens love visuals, they love YouTube, and they click on the buy links more often than after they read book summaries. I sighed and rolled up my sleeves. I’d created employee communications videos in a former job,…
Let’s celebrate! Today is World Book Day! Also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book, April 23 is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing and copyright. It was first celebrated in 1995. Vicente Clavel Andrés Clavel founded…
I love public libraries so much that I’m a member of two systems—Gwinnett County and Hall County—and serve on the fundraising arm for the latter. I’m a firm believer in keeping library services free to all. Today, libraries across our nation are asking for your donations to supplement what the government provides. According to an…
A spooky true story for the Halloween season: I saw a ghost when I was fifteen years old. Or, maybe it was someone pretending to be a ghost. I had begged my parents to let me accompany my English teacher and four other members of our school’s literary magazine staff to see Sylvia Plath’s “The…
On June 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed gaming disorder as a condition in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases. Yep, video game addition is now an official new mental health condition. Wow! According to WHO, the disorder “affects only a small proportion of people who engage in digital- or video-gaming…
I’m thrilled to announce that not one, not two, but THREE of my writing partners published books in the last month. It’s so exciting to see a book I critiqued make to it print. Julane Fisher, who lives on the other side of the lake from me (45 minutes by car), released Sour Lemon and Sweet…
All my life, I’ve written for someone else—grade school teachers, college professors, newspaper editors, magazine publishers, corporate managers and high-tech clients. I was established. Why would I want to give up a steady salary to wear out my keyboard in the risky book publishing industry? God. Yep, He nudged me. In fact, He all but…