Awesome is fhe Lord - anything is possible with God.

feeds@yuku.com (MsAmber) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:55:55 GMT

Merry Christmas, may the Lords peace and Gods love be with you always

All my life the Lord has always helped me. When I cried for help he answered me, he gave me reason when I felt there was none, when I was lost he found me, when I needed release from sin he released me, and when I needed definition in my life he defined me....

Jesus my salvaton in Gods richness and grace

feeds@yuku.com (MsAmber) — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:39:52 GMT

Do you believe some may know Jesus and never deny him and is his forever? I know this to be true for me, because that is the way I am.

Revelation 3:12 (Whole Chapter)

All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my God, and they will be citizens in the city of my God-the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven...

What Dave Sees a Lot of In Proposals (and Novels)

feeds@yuku.com (8Eyes4LeftFeet) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:56:39 GMT

I'm not sure whether this belongs here or over at the coffee shop, but Dave's post on Coffee-in-Fiction (C*I*F?), or maybe that's Christians-and-Fictional-Expressos (C*A*F*E), has been posted over at the blog for a month, and drawn 33 responses where it's harder on the eyes to read.

This trend Dave has noticed, however, seems to go back at least to the time of J. S. Bach ... here's a fun article.

Next Public Domain Acquisition for Bethany House

feeds@yuku.com (ctmikesell) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:15:33 GMT

With the front-page news of BH publishing Janie Austen's Pride and Prejudice, who should be next to be tapped from the public domain? Dante? Milton? Dostoevsky? Chesterton? Lovecraft? OK, maybe not Lovecraft.

Anybody else?

Who's your pick?

--der...

From POD to Legitimate Publishing

feeds@yuku.com (ByGrace) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:12:51 GMT

Question.

What if years ago you had a novel published through a pod. It turned out to be a bad experience. You got your rights back, have let the book sit while you write another. You had put your heart and soul into the pod book, and feel God wants you to get it out there. So, your goal is to revise and re-title.

How would you approach an agent or publisher about this. Do you tell them it was once with a pod, briefly, and that you have revised the novel under a new title. Or do...

Making the case for innovation...

feeds@yuku.com (mpsnyder) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:46:25 GMT

Oops, I posted my response in the wrong place. I deleted it here and put it up under the 'Self Negation' thread. Sorry folks...

Creative Self-Negation

feeds@yuku.com (seraphim98) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:20:02 GMT

A few years ago I read about someone who in a moment of joy danced as a way of negating himself.

Since then I have thought about self-negation and the arts in ways that I had not considered before. And what I think about makes me wonder if self-expression is not over done and over rated. The art of our time is in a perpetual lather to innovate, to break mold, rules, boundaries, often to the point of pointless ugliness, and "rule breaking" as the core value of "real...

Safe Fiction

feeds@yuku.com (Rommel777) — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:49:51 GMT

I think the main problem with Christian fiction is that it's too safe. When I say that, most of you think of safety in terms of content, which is true. Christian stories are too safe in terms of avoiding sex, violence, language, and also, as someone posted in the comments thread, an editor cutting out gross-out sickness (!!). But more importantly, and more tellingly to someone who has to read this genre fiction, there's way too much playing-it-safe in terms of style. Christian fiction, on the...

Color Me Confused

feeds@yuku.com (ZanesMilkMachine) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:00:49 GMT

First, a disclaimer to the authors of the two stories that have been put up so far, this is not about your ability to write, this is about my inability to understand what you've written.

I'd love some feedback from Mark and Dave (and the authors if they're here reading) because I'm trying to learn and understand what particular points about these stories made them honorable mentions. Again, it isn't about the craft, I think both stories were well written. Both had excellent description...

Speaking of covers

feeds@yuku.com (ranmort) — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:19:44 GMT

Saw these two fall '06 releases on display next to each other at Barnes & Noble:

Turow

Hey Dave

feeds@yuku.com (ZanesMilkMachine) — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:53:56 GMT

Didja turn off the comments on your blog?

I was going to say that the only thing I can comment about on your "Best Of 2006" post is MuteMath. I've seen them a couple times live and they are seriously good.

Christian Creative Nonfiction??

feeds@yuku.com (Jill Noel) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:42:20 GMT

Hi all. I found this site via Relief: A Christina Quarterly Expression. Finding writers who want to write Christ not Pollyanna is a real find! Coming across the Relief Journal and this blog are, what can I say, an answer to prayer!
Faith in Fiction is Almost where I want to be. Can anyone help me out here? I'm looking for something like "Faith in Creative Nonfiction." Does such a thing exist?
Jill Noel

Books readers want

feeds@yuku.com (colorbird) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:51:08 GMT

I just read the article here and hurried over to see what everyone thought. Guess I'll start the topic.

I was thinking: what do all those books have in common?

trying to find a soulmate and finding God along the way

feeds@yuku.com (sarah) — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:35:29 GMT

New book is creating all the buzz...chekc out more reviews!

The What-If Guy by Taylor G. Wilshire Paperback October 2006

In the novel Ryley McKenna is on the fast track to success. She has met the perfect guy, maybe her soul mate but realizes something is missing and that her ideas of success and love aren't enough. In search of fulfillment, she tries to find something to soften the edges of her stressful life. With guidance of a special book, A Course in Miracles, she finds...

Chick lit book with a spiritual twist

feeds@yuku.com (sarah) — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:29:57 GMT

The buzz is getting bigger and bigger on this book coming out in October of 2006l--over 100 publications have write-ups on it. Check out another great review, along with description of the book.

FICTION

The What-If Guy
by Taylor G. Wilshire
Nautilus Press
233 pages
Softcover $13.00
0-9778018-0-2

Ryley McKenna is climbing the corporate ladder on the fast track to success. She has just met the perfect guy, maybe even her soul mate. So why does she feel...

Sugar or Sewer

feeds@yuku.com (tsbeckett) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:58:48 GMT

O.k., here is one of my greatest pet peeves, intolerance. The latest being that if I write stories that are sweet and beautiful then I must not be a Christian, because every true Christian must see the world as awful and wade deep into the slough to rescue those poor unfortunates who are caught in this pit.

I say yes, if that is your calling write that, but please understand that God has not called us all to that. I firmly believe that some people will be better off by looking up...

Why Evangelicals Can't Write

feeds@yuku.com (Jim Boutilier) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:14:14 GMT

There is much to be commended in Petes article relating to the inability of evangelicals to produce great works of literature. But its hard for me to subscribe to his notion that it results from some sort of sacramental distortion. I would suggest that if its true we cant write, its because we dont read. But thats another story.

The centrality of his argument is that this presumed evangelical shortcoming stems from Zwinglis poetics with its lack of a potent sacramental...

A Review and a Question

feeds@yuku.com (8Eyes4LeftFeet) — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:17:47 GMT

(In many ways, what follows runs parallel to comments in the current thread begun as CBA--State your case, whatever it is. However, several times after my divergent-minded responses to other threads, someone else has come along and felt the need to turn the discussion back to the original question. Therefore, I will start this as a new thread, but note some overlap.)

Last week, I read The Best Christian Short Stories,...

CBA--State your case, whatever it is.

feeds@yuku.com (hopeofglory) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:47:21 GMT

Alright. C. Fisher didn't have time to start this thread, but I will quote him:
"I could be wrong, but I think it more likely that certain 'authors', their work rejected on basic questions of quality, misconstrued the rejections as religious or philosophical discrimination and therefore removed themselves [from the ABA], rather than change their work to make it more suitable to a wide audience. The result was the publishing 'counter-culture' we have in CBA today and which mirrors any...

faith*in*fiction Discussion