I couldn’t resist posting this oldie but goodie. Silent Monks singing!
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Fun Fridays – Dec. 18, 2015
A beautiful song. Perfect for the season. Turn up your volume, close your eyes, and be transported. HT: Kim Moore
The Little Things
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? If you do, you may already be thinking about them, at least a little. I don’t tend to make strict ones but throughout the year, I do try to improve. I notice it’s the little things that kill. Take the preparation and display of Thanksgiving cranberry sauce. A few years ago, as a small part of my contribution to dinner, I brought jellied cranberry sauce. Of …
Practice Makes…More Practice
Before musicians perform, they practice, and then practice some more. The best musicians might practice eight hours a day, every day, for many years. Then maybe, just maybe they get paid to perform, which rarely makes up for the thousands of hours they practiced for free. Before an artist paints or sculpts or creates anything, they practice and practice some more and throw away many of the things …
Joy to the World?
The angel said, “I bring you good tidings of great joy!” We really need some of that these days. With Paris and San Bernardino still in the news cycle we are reminded of the evil among us. And then this past week I received a series of bad news from industry friends. A publishing friend lost his home to a fire. A client called to say they’ve been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma which is a cancer …
Fun Fridays – Dec. 11, 2015
This could be this year’s most popular Christmas story video. Enjoy! HT: Kim Moore
The Gift of Christian Fiction
If you’re looking for the most original idea ever expressed on a Christian Publishing blog, this isn’t it. But this thought is worth repeating at this time of year, and that is, consider giving the gift of Christian fiction as you shop for your Christmas gifts. Why? The stories are written and edited well. They are entertaining and uplifting. You can find a book for almost any interest. Romance, …
A Writers’ Advent: Week Two
In this second week of advent, let’s take a look at both the second and third candles: the Angel and the Shepherd candle. As I thought about these two groups, I realized they played two very specific roles in the birth of the Savior: the angels proclaimed God’s glory, and the shepherds bore witness to what God did. All through Scripture, angels bring us messages. They speak God’s truth so that we …
The Year of a Bad Book
As much as freedom-loving people recognize government censorship of media is generally a bad thing, sometimes censorship is a good thing for society. One such extreme case will rear its head next year as a previously-banned book will exit copyright protection. In 2015, we had “new’ books by Harper Lee and Dr. Suess. In 2016, Meine Kampf by Adolf Hitler enters the Public Domain. It has been …
Five Things that Changed the Publishing World
Over the past twenty-five years ago there have been five things that changed the landscape of the publishing industry forever (the first three below happened in 1995). Amazon.com Dan Balow wrote an excellent piece on this earlier this year. It still is quite astounding when you think about it. In 20 years this little online startup (founded 1995) became the most dominant online retailer in the …