Blog Entries for: March, 2010

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Food Fight? by Guest Blogger Jill Baughan

It's Guest Blogger Day and today's guest is Jill Baughan, an author and speaker who helps people unleash the power of play in their lives. Jill was born in Bluffton, Indiana, where she learned to laugh and throw up at the same time while riding the Tilt-A-Whirl at the annual Bluffton Street Fair!

Jill is no stranger to painful experiences, such as the sudden death of her father when she was ten, and a long battle with infertility as an adult. But even though the challenges of life have changed her, her innate wildness remains unshaken. "Though there are times when part of me mourns what's lost, sighs at what's here and trembles a bit at what's to come," she says, "I still want to hop onto a Harley, swing like Tarzan from a vine, and toilet paper somebody's house." (Jill sounds like my kind of girl!)

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March 30, 2010 | 5 Comments | View or add comments

Author Interview and Book Give Away with Kathy Howard

What a privilege to introduce my friend, Kathy Howard! Kathy is a Bible study author and speaker, and has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years. She's taught a wide range of topics to an even wider range of students - everything from basic Bible stories at a middle school to teacher training for church leaders. Kathy particularly enjoys speaking at women's events and retreats to encourage women in their faith. She has a Masters in Christian Education from the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary and serves on a church staff in West Texas.

Kathy and her husband have three children and one son-in-law. When the family gets together there are also four dogs in the mix! Kathy says she writes to have something to do while drinking coffee (but I know better than that :-). Find out about Kathy's Bible studies and speaking ministry and get discipleship and leader helps at her website, www.kathyhoward.org. Find out more about God's Truth Revealed at www.godstruthrevealed.org

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March 23, 2010 | 15 Comments | View or add comments

Questions About Agents and Publishing by Chip MacGregor

You have questions. Chip has answers.

He knows a whole lot more about the publishing industry than I'll ever know, so I'll be quiet and let him do the talking today! Be sure to check out his blog post about agents. You can find it here.

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March 16, 2010 | 4 Comments | View or add comments

Who are the Characters in YOUR LIfe?

The more I teach at writer's conferences, the more I realize how blessed we are as writers if we have home-grown, ready-made characters in our families. You know what I'm talking about...the eccentric grandpa who buys moonshine along with the eggs, the prim and proper aunt with the colorful past, the entrepreneurial dad with the can-do attitude and the can't-do bank account. Yes, I am blessed as a writer.

Most fiction writers admit that even though their characters are rarely exact duplicates of anyone, many are compilations with bits and pieces of various people, thrown together into a hash of the real and the imagined. And the results can be a quite entertaining.

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March 9, 2010 | 5 Comments | View or add comments

Touching the Hearts of Children

Whether you write for kids or not, whether you have children or not, you have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children.

This past weekend, I had the privilege of participating in the second annual Write2Ignite Conference for writers of children's literature. It was a glorious time of focusing on our calling as writers in the battle for kids' minds and hearts. As I prepared for my Friday night keynote, "Setting Children's Hearts Afire for Jesus," I recalled considering a similar thought when I was writing my book, Seeing Through the Lies: Unmasking the Myths Women Believe.

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March 2, 2010 | 7 Comments | View or add comments

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