Today, I’m offering my true confessions as a shopaholic (unreformed). You see, shopping is all about feeling like you got a good deal. That’s right! Regardless of what you might believe, shopping does not go hand in hand with spending. At least, not for me. In fact, I only spend when I think I’m getting something of value from the …
ACFW Conferece: Is it here yet? Cara Putman
We are 105 days away from the ACFW conference. Don’t believe me? Just check the countdown running on the side of my blog. 105 days. Wow! Why do I get so excited about conference? At the conference I’ve met each of the editors I’ve worked with. At the conference I’ve gotten to know them, and hopefully they’ve gotten to know …
Totally Worth It, Roseanna White
Totally Worth It As conference season warms up, I’m tickled to be a stop on the official ACFW Conference Blog Tour. This is the only conference I’ve had the pleasure of attending thus far, so I can’t really compare it to any others out there. But I can share my excitement and some of what I’ve taken away the two …
Setting the Spiritual Tone, Cynthia Ruchti
One of my favorite passages of Scripture is Colossians 3. Yes, the whole chapter. It’s one of those pages in my Bible that is heavily marked—brackets, underlining, asterisks, arrows to a repeated thought, boxes drawn around key points like “Christ is all and in all,” exclamation points in the margins. You may not appreciate the idea of marking up your …
Is it here? Melissa Tagg
Okay, let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: I’m a little weird. (Some might want to change that to “a lot” weird – like, friends who don’t understand my love for flannel sheets – but that’s an argument for another day.) I’m a little weird because I’d rather sit around and talk storycrafting than scrapbooking (yeah, not so …
Birthing a Book in Less than 9 Months, Deb Raney
Recently a writer friend compared birthing a book to birthing a baby. Indeed, when I first started writing, it would take me at least nine months to write a book from “once upon a time” to “happily ever after,” not counting some major rewriting after my editors got hold of it. So I was shocked the first time I realized …