Greetings and my apologies. I don't know why this didn't publish in between the June and July posts. You are getting these out of order, but it is good to have your company on my writing journey. Speaking of company, Virginia birthed a new one last month: Tanninim...

Tanninim Publishing LLC awaits my beta reader. He has two stories of Fire Flight and Other Tanninim Tales yet to peruse. If I have no rewrites, the manuscript will fly in different directions: west to the printer and north to the graphic designer. You will see the...

Coming out this fall will be a MiniBük of 5 short stories. It will include a prequel to Shona's Dragons. What provoked the fight that opens chapter one? To help you read the excerpt from chapter 1, here is a pronunciation tip for you. The African tribal names that...

Do you like short stories? This summer I hope to compile 5-10 in a booklet. The final one is a prequel for Shona's Hope. I will have the stories available for the Hanover Writers Expo in November. Who knows? Maybe I'll finish in...

Why marry? Naomi tells Ruth, “…shall I not seek rest for thee?” Marry for rest? The Greek word means “to permit one to cease from labor in order to recover and collect strength.” Think of an unmarried woman. She works long days and has a house and yard to maintain....

Mark writes of a running man (Mark 15:36). Who is he? He lacks the dignity of a noble. No VIP would be caught running in public. And the running man is ignorant. He thought that Eloi was Elias and not Elohim. He was not the only one. And he is not a soldier. That did...

Returning to school brings emotional warfare. Unending feelings of exhaustion, defeat, and invisibility claim you. It is a spiritual fight. Fantasy author Sara Ella touches on that disease of the soul, depression. Now is a good time to read her book Coral before the...

Don’t do it. Once you know the meaning of the F Bomb word, please stop. In old England when someone committed a heinous crime, part of the stigma was that the act was called the perp’s name. What was the F Bomber’s crime? Rape. When you drop this bomb, you are...

Fantasy writer, Philip Wilder, challenges you to sacrifice your dreams for God’s dreams for you. Think about your hopes for the future. Will you resent God for the hopes He doesn’t fulfill? Or will you thank Him for giving you better dreams? As I look back on my life,...