Although that scenario is certainly still possible, it is becoming harder and more rare. This new reality came to my attention the other...

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...

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...

When my wife and I moved to our current residence, one of the first things that went on our “we-want-to-do-this-to-the-property-some-day”...

But that painting, “Snap the Whip,” was more than a sanity-maintainer for me. It reminded me of three special people: my grandfather, my...

(Sixth in a series) In the preceding five installments of this series, I’ve been answering the question of how one goes about getting a...

Signing a contract with a publisher for a new book fills an author with both exhilaration and apprehension. That’s precisely my mixed...

Ironically, I’m a doubter, especially about myself and my own abilities, so I have to constantly remind myself of the attitude expressed...

The message of today’s blog post is simple and straightforward. It is no more and no less than the title indicates: Merry Christmas...

As 2018 winds down to a close and the new year fast approaches, I’ve been doing some reflecting. Some of the reflections have been...

Things notoriously often move slowly in the publishing world. Quite some time ago, I queried an editor with an article idea I had. I was...

It never fails. Soon after one makes a commitment to do something, that commitment will be tested. How long one is able to remain...

“It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.” This goes back to what an earlier post said about the...

Jordan Rosenfeld, author of numerous books, including A Writer’s Guide to Persistence, offers the following good advice for writers who...

George didn’t have much at all going for him. He was born a slave to a slave mother in Missouri. The two of them were kidnapped when he...

By now, you know the point that I’ve been driving at in the previous four posts. Others overcame great obstacles and wrote in spite of...

The Bible tells us that the apostle Paul was arrested, tried, and punished multiple times for the sake of the gospel. He was whipped five...

At first, back in seventeenth-century England, Bunyan was just a tinker, an itinerant small businessman who sold and repaired metal...

Continuing our survey of some famous writers who refused to use their circumstances as an excuse not to write, today we consider another...

How often we writers find every possible excuse not to do what we want other people to think we do–write. We are too tired, too busy, too...