Finding Mommy Bliss

Guest post by amazing mommy friend GennyHeikka Life is busy and motherhood is busier. It can be easy to function on auto-pilot, missing the moments that make parenting rich. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed and isolated too. If you’re a mom, you know that parenting can be chaotic, stressful, and complicated. There are temper [...]

A Writer’s Roller Coaster Life: Are You Ready to Ride?

Being a writer is like strapping yourself into a straight jacket and then jumping on a Rockin’ Roller Coaster. Once strapped in, you can’t get off and you have to trust that the operator will bring you safely to the end. In the meantime, you’re helpless, torn between the terror and the excitement as you’re [...]

The Power in a Photograph to Tell a Story

Guest Post by Jeff Satterly It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think that saying a picture is “worth” any amount of words isn’t exactly true. Both images and written text have value for conveying information and providing insight and understanding into something, but some pictures, and photographs in [...]

Why You Can’t Live on the Mountaintop

Mountaintops are beautiful. It’s there you feel free as if you have the world at your fingertips. You have a front row seat to God’s majestic sunrise and at night, an unobstructed view of  the vast  universe. It’s a wonderful place to experience, but you can’t stay up there for ever. Though sometimes we wish [...]

When the Bomb Counts Down to Zero: Writing Honest Through the Pain

Guest Article by Shelly Beach and giveaway Over the past few weeks, a friend and I have been plowing our way through all six seasons of the television series Lost. If you’re not familiar with the show, it rose to the forefront American pop culture from 2004 to 2010, gaining critical acclaim and popular success. [...]

Dallas Writers University One Day Intensive with Agent Chip MacGregor

  So it’s Monday and I’m behind in blogging again. This week’s excuse? A successful run of The Little Mermaid. So instead of banging out a post, I’m passing on a great deal on an awesome One Day Intensive with my agent Chip MacGregor. It’s May 4th in Dallas and seating is limited to 30 [...]

When You Feel Like You’ve Been Left Behind in This Publishing Journey

So this post has been sitting in my draft folder for while, waiting for the right time, or maybe for me to truly feel that I’ve conquered the “left behind” feeling so I can adequately encourage others. The truth is I still feel like I’ve been left behind at times, so maybe it’s time to set these [...]

Novel Rocket Interviews Me!

Another Monday. Another missed blogging day… Thus goes my flexible interrupted life. But in case you doubt I’ve been busy, here’s an interview with me on Novel Rocket

Walk the Road Before You

Just something God has been teaching ME on my journey. I’m no where close, but here’s some food for thought!  

Breathe New Life into Your Dead Manuscript Through E-Publishing

So you’re manuscript has made the rounds at traditional publishing houses and has been rejected. You’re ready to give up, call it quits with this one, bury it in your hard drive never to see the light of day. It’s dead. What other choice do you have? You can breathe new life into your dead [...]

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