Into the Fire
Passionate thoughts about the world of writing and the Power of God
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Okay. Here’s your chance to register your favorite (fiction) genres. Tell your reader/writer friends to take this little survey. Leave your favorite or list your favorites if there is more than one in the comments. I might miss some so feel free to add those. Ready? Go! 1.Action/Adventure 2.Bonnet Books (Amish/Mennonite/etc.) …
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I guess I’m hangin’ out with “the wrong crowd”. But I like them. Very much. We talk thrillers, mystery, suspense. We shudder together at Steven James’ evil characters. We examine the breathless pacing of Robert Liparulo. We love the smack talk of different investigators portrayed by Mark Mynheir and J. Mark Bertrand. We cheer…
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Words, the debut novel by Ginny Yttrup, published by B&H Fiction’s Pure Enjoyment line, is an important story for multiple reasons. For those females who’ve suffered at the hands of a sexual predator, Words is a must read. For women who are healing from brokenness caused by sexual abuse or drug abuse or the…
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"In your anger do not sin." Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27 (NIV)
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Excerpts from the ACLJ: The ACLJ is filing an amicus brief on behalf of 49 Members of Congress – including pro-life leaders Rep. Joe Pitts, Rep. Michele Bachmann, and Rep. Mike Pence – backing Virginia's ObamaCare lawsuit now before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. We are asking the court to uphold the lower…
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. . . for the sake of story? If you’re writing thrillers, mysteries, or suspense novels, you can get away with murder. Literally. But murder doesn’t often fit into the romance genre. Or women’s fiction. Doesn’t mean it can’t—especially in chick lit—just means it’s unlikely. It would have to be done very well to…
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Ever feel like your judgment is skewed? Like you're missing "it"? For a writer it's a weird place to be. It infringes on your sensibilities, pressing against your confidence, and pushes you into self-loathing. You read the books whose rave reports entice you, and you fail to catch the fever. Is my judgment skewed?…
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How many times have you heard the phrase in the title at church board meetings, committee meetings, the publishing industry? Change: “You know it don’t come easy.” The publishing industry is notorious for moving slowly. However, the challenges of e-publishing have engineered some movement urging the powers-that-be in the biz to get rid…
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Okay. I think I’ve admitted to you here how I scored a politically-incorrect “moron” rating on my SAT scores, many years ago when they still used that classification for identifying students who didn’t have a shot at experiencing any kind of success in a particular category, in the “Mechanical Reasoning” and “Spatial Relationships” designations…
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Greg Mitchell is the author of The Coming Evil Trilogy beginning with Book One entitled The Strange Man and published by Realms, a division of Strang Company. A contemporary supernatural suspense, grazing the cusp of horror, this speculative tale situates itself in the spiritually and physically dead-end town of Greensboro. Beginning with a…
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