I'm finished with the Blue Ridge Christian Writers' Conference this year and the first thought in my head is...overwhelmed. For the hour and a half drive back over the fantastic mountains to my home in Tennessee, I contemplated the impossibility of my dream to write....

I'm attending the Blue Ridge Christian Writers' Conference this week in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Besides spending my days in the lovely Blue Ridge Mountains, I have the opportunity of listening to some fabulous presenters and meeting lots of other authors. As...

I was invited to speak at the hooding ceremony of some of my graduate students this past weekend. It was a nice experience, one I'd hadn't participated in since I was hooded ten years ago, and I'd forgotten the emotional intensity that can accompany such a moment....

David Kerisey has studied personalites for over 20 years. In his book Please Understand Me, he lists four basic temperments with four subgroups under each one. The four main temperments are: Guardian, Artisan, Rational, and Idealist.I'm currently using the techniques...

LOVE CAN COVER A MUTITUDE OF SINSWashed ashore on Fairweather Key, Ruby O’Shea and her three nieces─the offspring of the pirate Thomas Hawkins and Ruby’s late sister─have a chance for a new beginning as Ruby takes a job in a boardinghouse and the girls are passed off...

In Donald Maas book The Fire in Fiction, he discusses making one-dimensional versus three-dimensional characters. Perfect heroes make for boring characters. Also, to have reader-appeal, characters must have elements of humanity. This doesn't mean that they...