When Your Book Acquires Personality

13 years ago

  Our daughter is a lovely, intelligent, spiritual, healthy, well-rounded young woman. It’s hard to believe that she had some…

How Deeply Satisfying. . .

13 years ago

How deeply satisfying it is, to have a teenager I've never met, who is touched by my book The Hinge…

Reason #171: An Open Letter to the Mormon Church

13 years ago

Dear Mormon Church: I don't know whether to slap you, or to thank you for launching my publishing career. Sincerely,…

The Roots of Creativity, Seen Through a Three-Inch Frame

13 years ago

A fellow author's challenge,  to write what you can see through a one-inch frame about your childhood, led me to…

To unplug or not?

13 years ago

Recently on Novelmatters I posted about how much I struggle with the presence and demands of social media. You can…

How a Library Helped Save Me

13 years ago

The Ernie Pyle Memorial Library Albuquerque, New Mexico A recently- discovered portrait of the famous WWII journalist Ernie Pyle is…

Reason #170: Guest Blogger on “Conditional Relationships”

13 years ago

By way of introduction, I don't really like labels but labeling myself for you is going to be the easiest…

Christmas Poem 2010

13 years ago

............ . .............Fullness . Two days ago was the coming of the great light The coming of herders The coming…

Windshield Wiper Forgiveness

13 years ago

In the time of the apostle John, people who became Christians after living under the laws of the Old Testament…

Call for Guest Bloggers

13 years ago

If you are an ex-Mormon and would like to add your reason to my "365 Reasons Why I Won't Return…