PW says Christian mystery–in the classic sense–is a tough sell. Can "Whodunits" Still Do It? Part 1 Maybe I’m missing the point, but there’s a lot of "modern" Christian mystery/suspense on the shelves. Pretty much every publisher who does fiction has some or has made a concerted go of it. Maybe there isn’t a lot of classic mystery, but is
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You know that moment before you sneeze? How the tickle gets worse by incremental degrees up to the point where you swear a static-charged horsefly is flitting against the walls of your nostril. You experience that last expectant moment of complete torture only to finally explode your face off, rocket out the microscopic irritant that couldn’t be borne any longer.
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God knows I’ve tormented my fellow editor and friend, Shannon Hill plenty over the past year. So for my first anniversary with WaterBrook, it’s nice I can set the record straight with Lauren Winner’s article in PW, The Series Still Rules. I mean, how much do we admire this? "This fall, WaterBrook is releasing When the Heart Cries, the first
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I can’t make this stuff up, folks. Just read this from my inbox. Maybe you saw it too. INDUSTRY NEWS [From Christian Retailing] “Tomorrow, 06-06-06, marks release of ‘The Rapture’ In one of the year’s biggest marketing tactics, tomorrow, June 6—or 06-06-06—a slew of products both Christian and secular will release. [Among them,] Tyndale House Publishers will release the third
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I think blogging is about 4 times removed from real life. Live is dimension 1. Writing about live is dimension 2. Typing on computer, bypassing hand to paper, is dimension 3. And typing into the little box to post on the web is probably somewhere down near 4 or 5. Even if we don’t just assume it loses a generation
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