(from Combat! Spiritual Lessons from Military History, available at Amazon, http://ow.ly/ZXQ350xX9mx) #writing #Christianeducation...

That quotation came to mind the other day as I read a short article by Stephen Clay McGehee titled “Words Have Meaning” at The Southern...

“The transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next, Sun Tzu taught, was the key to long-term military success. . . . [The...

FIRST, A REMINDER: Southern Writers magazine is featuring the first of a two-part article about my book Combat! Spiritual Lessons from...

Be sure to check out Part 1 of the featured article about this book on Southern Writers magazine’s Suite T blog this Friday at...

Before getting into the subject of this week’s blog post . . . A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! In my previous blog post, I discussed the danger...

No doubt, you’ve heard the adage “a jack of all trades, a master of none,” referring to someone who can do a lot of different things but...

Yesterday’s cache of e-mails brought one from my publisher, TouchPoint Press. That in itself is not surprising, given the soon release of...

John Donne wrote, “No man is an island Entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.” This statement is...

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the wheels of the publishing machine sometimes move slowly. But, like a railroad locomotive, once...

To paraphrase a familiar adage, “A writer’s gotta do what a writer’s gotta do.” So I’m doing it. Because it has to be done sometime. No...

That said, I was reading for pleasure a few nights ago (an historical novel, no less!) when my editorial alarm went off like an air-raid...

Mathis, Jim. The Fourth Quarter (Overland Park, Kan.: Mathis Books, 2018). Paper, 102 pages. Available https://jim-mathis-writerjimmathis...

Often, we cannot truly appreciate someone or what they have experienced or done until we’ve walked the proverbial mile in their shoes. In...

To fully appreciate what I’m saying, one must understand the backstory, realizing the change that took place in DMV over the years....

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

“Write what you know.” “Your writing becomes like what you read.” Since I began writing for publication back in the late 1970s/early...

I suspect, however, that for many attendees a better name might be Ignite2Write, because they often leave the conference inspired to...

I’ll soon be leaving the safety and security of my writer’s cocoon and venturing well beyond my comfort zone. And for an introvert like...

Lately, I’ve been mulling what I should title one of the books on which I’ve been working. Now that the manuscript is finished and ready...