Jack Zulu and the Girl with Golden Wings has officially released! This second book in the Jack Zulu series is now available at the Story Warren Store, Amazon, or Audible. Watch authors S. D. Smith & J. C. Smith talk about the book in the launch party replay here. Around the Web The Wild Glory of an ‘Ordinary’ Life Jon…
I’m hanging out in the Canadian Rockies this week with dear friends I haven’t seen in five years. My soul is being filled with friendship and with beauty and with cool temperatures (while friends and family bake in a heat dome). I head back to “real life” soon, but this moment is no less real…
I’m to write a blog post on something bookish or writerly this week and—while I’ve started one—I haven’t actually decided yet what I’m writing about. It’s a funny thing, this kind of process, where you start with a general direction, but you don’t know quite what it’s about until you finish. I’ve started writing about my jump…
I filled the six feet of bookshelves last week, pulling some of my lovely old series like the We Were There Books and the Signature biographies from shelves in back rooms forward into the living room where they can show off their coordinated spines better. And in those back rooms, there’s now almost an entire…
I brought home a bookshelf that I had at the office because it was not being used there and piles of books have been forming at my house. I just added it to my wall of bookshelves. Things are now slightly off center, but I’m okay with that—or I will be as soon as I…
My cat has moved to “summer mode”: in which he sits near me, but rarely on me. I appreciate that I still see his affection for me, but I’ll be delighted when we get back to cooler days when he’ll become a lap cat again. Around the Web Animal Picture Books by Sy Montgomery Janie at Redeemed Reader share…
April was poetry month, but that doesn’t mean you need to stop reading poetry now that the rain has brought the flowers. I’ve been enjoying re-reading some favorites like Eliot’s Four Quartets lately, and I’ve got a little bit of a poetry theme in the articles below. What poetry is on your shelf? Around the Web Non-Boring…
We’re excited to announce a NEW BOOK from Story Warren! Best Medicine Books, a Story Warren Imprint, is publishing Team Burger Shed by Tavin Dillard. If you love clean comedy with hysterical storytelling, this is for you. Check it out and order today to get a free signed baseball card from Tavin. Around the Web The Start of Something…
This year, April in North Carolina hasn’t felt like early summer, and for that I’m grateful. I love to revel in the beauty of the flowering trees and plants all around me. The pollen is high and the heat is coming, but for now, I will look out the window and rejoice at the beauty….
As we walk through these days of Eastertide, we celebrate the joy of the resurrection. I’m coming up on one year since the death of a dear friend, and the resurrection feels absolutely necessary to me this year. For if my friend’s beauty can be gone—forever gone—then what hope is there? But if her beauty…
I’ve just gotten home from a Service of Darkness, walking through the upper room and the crucifixion story from the Gospel of John. We finished the night with a quiet singing of “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” together, a powerful moment of voices mixing together to remind each other that the darkness…
I had to take all my meetings from home this week, while I hacked and sneezed. I don’t love meeting online, especially when I’m the only one online, calling into a roomful of my coworkers. I feel a remarkable amount of FOMO, despite the fact that I can hear most everything and see most everyone….
