Happy holidays, everyone! Here’s a blog thought to go with your festive Christmas season. I was listening to Amy Grant sing the song, “Grown up Christmas List” earlier. Don’t ask. I mean, I like Amy Grant. She brings back some great memories and she’s still rocking after all these years. But there’s a line in that particular cover song (by
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Quick post tonight. Not much juice left in the tank after a long night trying to get Ellie to sleep. She’s going through this thing. Probably doesn’t help that she’s missing Uncle Jon who just left after a four-day visit. But it’s not like misbehaving or anything. She’s just got a certain number of things to do every day, words
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Sol Stein: “In commercial writing lack of precision is not the only carelessness…. The work of bringing words to the marketplace, is, alas, sloppy in its attempts to distinguish books of a certain quality from everyday product that is designed to sell. “The writer of commercial nonfiction is often an expert craftsman in a hurry to meet a deadline who
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The comment was made by a coworker today that for all the evidence her title indicates to the contrary, she spends very little time actually editing books. It was a sentiment I’ve heard countless times at conferences and lunches with other editors I know: most of our job is spent on things other than actually editing. I know why that
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I can’t believe I’ve been writing this long about the Christian Writing Revolution and what it entails and haven’t yet written anything about this important principle. I guess it’s not one you naturally think of. Some of you may argue with me that it’s even important, but I’m prepared to make my case. This to me is a central point
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