Most of you know by now that I had a little personal revolution recently that took me away for a while. Tonight I want to share with you what I learned. It began with a word. A friend was confronted by a number of writers who had begun to tune out my strong opinions about the current Christian fiction market,
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My favorite Ginny Owens song has it right: “I have no words to offer. They only get in the way. When I try to explain You, there’s nothing sacred left to say.” Maybe it’s that the fuel I used before is gone now. Maybe it’s that I’m less concerned with convincing, and more with simply accepting and living what I
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Welcome and thanks for stopping by for day 2 of our riveting, no-holds-barred, take-out, pull-down cage match with the notorious, miraculous diva of “Seatbelt Suspense,” Brandilyn Collins. For those of you coming in from Chi Libris, ACFW, and other Christian writers sites, the primary goal here (among others) is encouraging writers of Christian fiction. We’ve got room for you even
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In my time away, one writer in particular helped encourage me toward deeper understanding in some of my assumptions about Christian fiction. I asked her if she’d be willing to share some of that with you here and she agreed. So today, I hope you’ll join me in welcoming Brandilyn Collins, best-selling novelist writing “Seatbelt Suspense” for Karen Ball at
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Guess what? I’m prejudiced. Don’t worry about keeping the secret. It’s pretty obvious. Actually, if you want to know the truth, you are too. I hope you’re not proud of that. That would be foolish indeed. But I don’t know what else to tell you. We’re all created naturally prejudiced about some things, and we’ll all hold particular opinions that
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