By Carolyn Miller It’s fun to get to the end of the year and look back at what’s gone before. And even though there might be another 16 days of this month, I think it’s good to pause and remind ourselves what has been accomplished, especially when life can be pretty hectic. So here, in …
Category Archives: Writers Life
Writers Life | Closet Meringue
By Louise Crossley At first glance, this middle-aged mother-of-three divorcee may seem a little ordinary. But like the humble onion, I can make your eyes water when I peel the layers away. Don’t be alarmed though, dear writers, my intention is not to horrify. It’s merely to make you teary-eyed with satisfaction for being exactly, …
Writers Life | Learning Through Imagination
By Meredith Resce I read an interesting meme on Face Book this morning, originally posted by Jennifer Powell. Fiction is fake!? How often have you heard that, or something like it? “I only read true stories.” “Fiction stories are lies.” “I don’t read fiction, I only read the Bible.” I’ve heard all of these at …
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Wednesday Writing Wins
Members of the Beyond the Borders zone of American Christian Fiction Writers have been busy writing and publishing over the last few months … Contest Winners Calor by JJ Fischer won Best Fantasy and Book of the Year at the 2023 Realm Awards. Amy Bryant won The Oxford / Pushkin Children’s Fantasy Prize, for her …
Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Publishing
My first two non-fiction books were published by traditional publishers: one a smaller Scottish press, and another, a mid-range US publisher. Since those first two books, I’ve self-published eight novels across two series, and two more non-fiction. Why did I switch to self-published? The initial reason was that it was becoming harder and harder to …
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Devotional | Resolute Resolve
By Wendy Parker Apart from being knee-deep in essays over the past few weeks and in the throes of writing my next book, I have been geeking out on the book of Nehemiah. The evidence in my Bible of this obsession is found in my multicoloured highlighter graffitied doodles and inked scribbling over every single …
A Nonfiction Reading Binge
Do you ever go through stages where you read several books in the same genre in a row? I do. It won’t surprise anyone to know I often read a lot of Christian romances in a row. But I’ve recently been working my way through some nonfiction titles that have been on my want-to-read pile …
DEVOTIONS: Still
Still. Something God has been working on teaching me is around the word, still. It has long been a word that I have associated with being still before God; sitting at his feet and waiting on him to speak or move. Being still and trusting that He will do something in the current season. But …
Short Story Fun
By Carolyn Miller Earlier this year I read a collection of short stories based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Now I’m not normally a short story gal, but reading these different stories by different authors all paying homage to a beloved fictional heroine, proved to be the perfect amount of reading before I dropped off …
What is Success? (as shared at the 2023 Omega Writers Retreat)
What is success? It’s a question we often ask ourselves as Christians, as writers, and as Christian writers. As with many important questions, there is no easy answer.