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Aspiring Writer: The Writing Contest

Talk about scary! Enter a writing contest along with so many excellent writers? Yet I was pretty sure this was the next step I was to take on my writing journey. So I prepared to enter ... The Writing Contest I was clueless. Only the Lord knew the wonderful surprise he had for me at the 2014 Write-to-Publish Conference. Years of effort had taught me to do my best with each writing project and take… Read More

Aspiring Writer: Finding the Agent

Oh, if only we had a good agent. That would make all the difference! But what if after following all the advice and doing our best, it still doesn’t happen. Does that mean we’ll never get an agent? Not necessarily … The Agent Wow, Lord! Really? It felt like some incredible dream. I couldn’t have been more surprised. My left wrist still recovering from being crushed, I stared at the cast that had replaced the… Read More

Aspiring Writer – The Snag

In this fascinating world of writing, doubts assail. Especially when our beloved book manuscripts receive one rejection after another. The Snag Lord, have I waited too long? I finished my novel, this time without the niggling feeling that insisted something still needed fixing. I sent it to a published novelist who had offered to read it, and she declare it ready for publication. I then set out to find an agent ...  ... only to… Read More

Aspiring Writer – The Unexpected

As unpublished novelists writing our stories with no contract in sight, we sometimes wonder. Will all this dreaming and effort take us to the land of published books? And then, along comes ... The Unexpected Am I getting close, Lord? That Spring, I decided to find out and entered my novel in the American Christian Fiction Writers' Genesis Contest for unpublished novelists. Weeks later, the scores from three judges arrived. What would one day become… Read More