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Monthly Archives: August 2013
My Quandary
So it’s like this. A few months ago I decided to self-publish my original historical series as eBooks. I began the process by scanning the print books into files. These I knew I would have to “edit.” Scanning isn’t perfect, … Continue reading
Writing Lessons Learned from Football by Julie Arduini
One thing I learned rather quickly when I moved to Ohio was come fall, it’s about football. More than once I’d have a Friday evening meeting to learn it was cancelled because there was a high school game nearby. When … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, championships, fall sports, football, high school football, Julie Arduini, Ohio, the writing process
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You Want Real Romance? by Hannah Alexander
I’ve been writing romantic suspense novels, women’s fiction, historical romance and romantic medical thrillers for nearly thirty years. I’ve also made hideous romance choices in my own life and had to live with them for … Continue reading
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Tagged Real romance, romance novels, true romance
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Musings from the Evergreen State by Kathi Macias
As I write this I’m looking out the picture window at gray Washington skies, blanketing green trees, green ferns, green grass…well, you get the idea. Washington is known as the Evergreen State for a reason, right? And that fact has … Continue reading
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Tagged Christians Read, Kathi Macias, Musings from the Evergreen State
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Where Do We Get Ideas? by Elizabeth Goddard
Novelists often get ideas from what intrigues us. We’re all different, so what intrigues me will be different than what catches your interest. As a novelist, I hope I find an audience—a group of people with whom my stories resonate—preferably … Continue reading
Death by a Thousand Cuts by Maureen Lang
Okay, the title of this blog post may be a slight (no, huge) exaggeration to describe my last couple of weeks, but hey, being a writer I’m drawn to the dramatic. It all started with my family vacation to Nashville. … Continue reading
New Releases–Because You Asked
Hi, everyone. At your request, we’re adding a new feature at Christians Read. You asked to be notified when one of the Christians Read Authors has a new book being released, so we’re going to add that to our program. … Continue reading
Unpublished Barbara Cartland Novels Released
Emails have been on several loops recently about the release of Barbara Cartland’s 160 unpublished manuscripts that will be released in paperback and as e-books. This is the paragraph most quoted by emailers: “Cartland was one of the most … Continue reading
Technology by Tara Randel
Does anyone have a love/hate relationship with technology like I do? Sure, technology gives us information at our fingertips in lightning fast fashion. We can send texts, pictures, emails from our phone. Writing a book on a computer is so … Continue reading
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Tagged devices, smartphone, social media, Tara Randel, technology
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But I Hate Marketing by Julie Arduini
When I talk with friends who don’t write for a living, their vision is that authors sit in cushy offices, munch on gourmet chocolates, write one draft of what will become a bestseller, and the book sells just like that. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adirondacks, authors, beach, Charlie Johns, Julie Arduini, marketing, nature, photo contest, Speculator, summer, writing
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Catching a Shy Man (aka Taming a Feral Cat) by Hannah Alexander
The Shy Man Being lazy by nature, I typically choose to blog about subjects of my novels. Lately, my blogs have been about small-town settings and the benefits of community. I’ve been reminded, however, … Continue reading
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The Horror of Human Oppression
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere” (Wiesel 119). This statement rings so true to my ears. Although it is a statement found in Elie Wiesel’s acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, I first read it … Continue reading
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Tagged complacency, concentration camps, Elie Wiesel, good books, human oppression, survivor testimony, warning signs
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Conflict . . . only better! by Maureen Lang
Certain genres expect to use a certain kind of conflict. Romance novels aren’t so much about the happy ending (which everyone knows will happen) as the vehicle the author uses to keep the hero and heroine apart until that happy … Continue reading
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Tagged Moral dilemma, review of The Light Between Oceans
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