By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Happy 2026 everyone, Debb here. Everywhere I look, people are disagreeing about something. In the arts, be they culinary, visual, musical, performance based or writing, we have guidelines that are sort of universal, (show don’t tell, don’t serve raw poultry etc.), but there’s also a lot…

by Edwina Perkins @EdwinaPerkins The Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference is at the end of May, and I know what you're thinking. I've got time. Let me stop you right there. The writers who walk away from conference week transformed, are the ones who started preparing months before they…

by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted One. Two. Three, four…five. Yep, Five. And that’s just the ones I’ve written three chapters of. You’ve heard it said to keep a notepad by your bed. This way, when you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for a story, you…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Have you ever found yourself with looming writing deadlines and nary a paragraph completed on a page? Whether those deadlines are self-imposed or set by someone else, they seem to nag and agitate you until you get that piece done. Or worse, you panic and freeze.…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin As writers and others involved in publishing, I believe we live in one of the greatest times in human history. A couple of years ago, Markus Dohle, the former CEO of Penguin Random House, said books are now enjoying their biggest renaissance since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing…

by Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes, Ed.D. @khutch0767 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4 (NIV) Recently,…