Author Archive

Bored Game

Okay. Kingsbury may write 8 novels a year, but Joel’s got a game. …can someone make sure we didn’t miss the rapture?

What Karen Kingsbury thinks readers are looking for

"You’re looking a lot of times for escape. That’s I think why Christian fiction initially wasn’t viewed as something valid to the Christian walk, because it was more of an escape. But when you can come into a story, the walls of your heart are down. We can use more storytelling, I think, on our journey to understanding faith."

Blogs about town…

Click over quickly and take a look at these. First, check out this nice collection of posts at Writer…Interrupted Also, Tina ran an interview with me the other day, in case you missed it. And finally, It-Girl Madison Richards is now posting over at Master’s Artist. This may stick with you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The desire for mystery

The movie opens on a pile of top hats in a forest. A man explains the 3 steps of a good magic trick. And the real story begins, the story that happened before all this. We meet the black box that duplicates anything. Top hats. Cats. People. You wonder: How can this possibly end well? And yet, the ending, ambiguous
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Formula

Form Structure is what we think of. How something is constructed. The formula is applied and the form is made. This is understood. This is quantifiable. This is a known, safe method to creation. But then there’s that other world. Mt. Hermon conference was great, as usual. If you allow it, things happen there that can change you. A brief
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