By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin After working with hundreds of authors on their books for decades as well as writing more than 60 nonfiction books for traditional publishers, I understand every book (of any type) has challenges to complete. The challenges are on multiple levels whether your book is for young…

By the Two Lindas of Personality @LindaGilden @LindaGoldfarb Recently a friend called. “How do you do this?” she demanded. “Do what?” I asked. “How do you sit there all day and write? Don’t you get bored? Are you tired of being by yourself?” I gave her a quick explanation of why…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 It’s beautifully disguised—my little pitfall in the backyard. The fun project? Planting flowers of every season in our back shrub bed. The problem? We took out too much dirt.  In our zeal for this new project, my family removed weeds and clumps of stubborn grass from…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Hey, suspense writer, have you ever been asked why anyone would read Christian suspense? Isn’t suspense a taste of reality, gritty, and violence runs through page after page? How can you manage the genre expectations in a Christian book? If that question hasn’t been posed to…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin “As an acquisitions editor, you should not be blogging,” one of my long-term writer friends told me in 2008. I worked inside a well-known publisher and she believed a blog was a complete waste of my time.  I was an early adapter to the blogging trend. …

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 A new year means fifty-two new blog posts to plan. Fifty-two! Or less if you blog every other week. Regardless, that is a lot of posts. The excitement of a new year brings joy, especially with the hopes of a vaccine in this pandemic. But how…