My sincere thanks to Kelly for pinch-hitting last week—I was representing Bandersnatch Books at Realm Makers, a conference for Christian writers of speculative fiction, which this year coordinated their expo hall with a conference for Christian game developers, and let me tell ya, that’s a combination of people to have in the same room! Next…
Someone told our lovely cool spring that summer had arrived and I would like a word with the management. This afternoon I spent an hour outdoors with a small team of people hanging vinyl banners on a construction fence—as one of our artists at church described it, we were “beautifying the construction process.” When you…
For our American and Canadian readers out there, happy respective holidays this week! I hope you enjoyed some fireworks (or avoided them successfully if that was your intent). For everyone else, I hope you had happy days not celebrating the establishment of your nation this week. That right there, my friends, is how you diplomatically…
It’s time for summer travel, which means time with family and adventures—those times can be a ton of fun, and they also can be full of stress. As you’re adventuring, remember that being together is just as important as the adventures at hand. Around the Web HALT-B: I don’t do all that well with tired…
The newspaper said that a “heat dome” is settling over our city this week, and that just sounds gross to me. In my book, domes should be made of blocks of ice, but maybe that’s just my years living in Alaska talking…. Around the Web *Wind Watchers by Micha Archer Betsy at Redeemed Reader shares…
We’ve been moving offices at my church job and this week the first set of signs came in. The new shared office spaces are named after streets in our city to tell them apart, and we needed signs for over the doorways. I landed on the idea of formatting them as street signs, and I…
I was sitting at an airport gate today when a gate attendant nearby came onto the loudspeaker. “Paging passengers Pieper? er, Pepper? and Peter Pecker.” The entire gate area erupted into laughter. I’m still wondering if there was anything pickled. Around the Web How to Really Not Waste Your One Life Ann Voskamp meditates on…
Thank you! With your help, we were able to meet and surpass our goal for the Green Ember: Helmer in the Dragon Tomb book and video game! Don’t worry—even if you didn’t back the project, you’ll get to enjoyt he products when they come. We can wait to get these into your hands. Around the Web 2025…
It’s baseball season, and a couple weeks ago I decided to dive in—watching a team’s games throughout a season is a big commitment. It’s a LONG season and while yes, I can edit manuscripts while the game goes in the background, it’s a conscious decision I have to make if I want to follow my…
Our friends over at The Young Writer’s Workshop are about to open their Crazy Editing Week again and would love to have your young writer join in! They describe it as, “A free online event to help writers in their teens and early twenties polish their manuscripts — and actually enjoy the process!” Check out all the details…
Have you heard? No, really, have you heard? There’s a new “big” Green Ember book on its way and it’s about Helmer. HELMER. Have you ever wondered more about his backstory? Now’s your chance. Oh, AND, there’s a video game. A GREEN EMBER VIDEO GAME—all about Helmer in the Dragon Tomb! You’ve got to get behind this project!…
We’re in the final weeks of April, which means its definitely time to start reciting “April showers bring May flowers…” In case you didn’t know, I wanted to be sure to tell you. We’ve got exciting news coming next week, but for now, enjoy these links from around the web and the Warren. Around the…
