I know it seems like we've been pretty quiet lately, but we have been working to develop some new content and also to make our works available in more places. Here's what's new: We are working to create Visual Novels Here are some illustrations and video clips we are using to create visual novels, an …
Sunday Snowstorm Thankfulness
Accuweather snip from their website We in eastern Oklahoma are hunkering down for very cold temps and lots of snow. I am about to burst with thankfulness, though, and I want to say why. Graphic by Mary Findey Thankful for my hubby. He braves all kinds of conditions to drive his truck and earn a …
Confronting Cancel Culture
CC BY-SA 3.0 Gina Carano by Gage Skidmore Created: 11 July 2015 from Wikipedia For a long time I didn't really know how to begin to express my thoughts on this "new" phenomenon of Cancel Culture. So many of my believing friends have expressed outrage and intent to boycott over the latest example, that of …
“Gorilla Glue Girl” or Sad Bad World?
from an article: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/02/this-woman-used-gorilla-glue-instead-of-hair-spray-she-ended-up-in-the-hospital/ If you live under a rock and haven't heard about this, there is a woman who ran out of her hairspray, which is regrettably called "Got2B Glued," and grabbed a can of spray on Gorilla Glue. If I understand the story right, after a month she realized the glue was not …
Commentary on the Arc of the Scythe series
Photo of Neil Schusterman © 2013 Larry D. Moore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. I started reading Scythe by Neil Schusterman because I am a paraprofessional and the 9th grade English class I sit in on was to study it. I have to admit I got caught up in the …
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Not Another Black Friday Sale!
https://sale.perrykirkpatrick.com/ Oh, but wouldn't you like a sale where you don't have to leave the house, and you get new books? Yes, these are ebooks, but you can take a look or take a chance and not get out of your jammies. You don't have to stand in a line waiting for a store to …
Audiobook Adventures
Benny and the Bank Robber Audiobook cover From time to time I have shared our journey as we published new books and learned new things about publishing. Some people already know that I have been trying to record and release an audiobook of Benny and the Bank Robber. I have been working on it since …
The Real Social Distancing — Post by Mary C. Findley
Many issues have come up recently that I've wanted to write about, but life sort of became paralyzed around March 13 (our daughter's birthday and probably the most life-changing Friday the Thirteenth I have ever experienced (almost the last normal day I remember from this year). I've been treading water ever since, trying to do …
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Encouragement and Edification for Your Stay at Home
The text below was found on Facebook. Sorry that I do not know the source The reports are that the truckers are getting supplies to the stores. People are stocking the shelves all night and letting old people shop first. Carnival Cruise line told Trump “We can match those big Navy Hospital ships with some …
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A Women’s Event and a Blessing!
Paintings by Carlene Wallace (on the right is the landscape scene mentioned below). I've got my eye on the Prairie Chickens on the left. Aren't the colors beautiful? Over the weekend I gave a talk at a small church women’s event at Trinity Baptist Church, Tulsa, OK. The organizers invited three speakers. One is a …
Tonight on the Write Stuff — Beware of the Bustle with Sophronia Belle Lyon
This is an interview Sophronia did with Parker J. Cole. The post is reblogged from her The Write Stuff blog, and you can click the link at the bottom to listen. Fun See Tokiyo discovers the “paths between,” secret routes the slave empire must be using to transport slaves and spin its web of control. …
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We started a Podcast! Post by Mary C. Findley
If you’ve taken a look around the new website design, you’ve noticed a couple of tabs that don’t have any entries under them yet. One of those is “Podcast.” Most people know what a podcast is. When I started figuring that out, one thing I learned is that content and length vary a LOT. I …
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There’s Always Dust When You Move — And a New Release! Post by Mary C. Findley
dusty fingers snapping In the course of redesigning the blog, we chose to make do with less storage space. In the course of clearing out space to make way for new content and posts, some old images have been removed from blog posts written in the past. We hope you'll excuse the absence of some …
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A New Website for a New Year — Post by Mary C. Findley
We are praying for big changes this year for Findley Family Video Publications (FFVP). You can see right here one of them. Elk Jerky for the Soul still exists, but we've changed to a website format and tried to come closer to branding ourselves uniformly. Still, many people complimented us on that great name for …
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12 Days of Christmas — I’m on tomorrow!
Please join this annual event on facebook at any time, but, especially, stop by tomorrow morning from 7-11 AM Eastern time, because that's MY time! You will find lots of authors you may or may not know, all presenting a clean and uplifting wordview in all kinds of books! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1184333868259877/ is the place, in the …
Radiocarbon Equilibrium – Post by Michael J. Findley
Editor’s note: This post is a partial examination of the article cited below. One of the authors, Ken Wolgemuth, gave Findley a PDF copy of the article with a request for comment. The article is written from an Old Earth Creationist (OEC) point of view. Findley comments on the Old Earth 14C dating suppositions and …
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Awkward! But Maybe Better?
We hope soon to migrate to a new website on WordPress.org. In the meantime, I was trying to learn how to set up and manage the site elements. One of the things I wanted to do was experiment with a new theme, or layout, for the future site. But, to my great surprise, when my …
His Sign 2: The Ezra Solution — New Release!
December of 2018 I released a different kind of short novel called His Sign: The Wait Is Over. I created it as a modern allegory, fictional, but intending to convey spiritual truth. I was kind of getting tired with the popular Nephilim obsession. His Sign: The Wait Is Over But, in the interest of giving …
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Guest Post by Russell Sherrard: A Podcast Is Born!
I was first introduced to creating a podcast for various things. I listen/watch a tech show on the weekend and the host mentioned an app called Anchor.fm. I went to Anchor to check it out. A few of Anchor's best features: UNLIMITED FREE HOSTING → We don’t believe in charging creators to make or store their content. No …
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Beatitudes & Woes: A One-of-a-Kind Anthology — post by Mary C. Findley
From the Amazon book description -- "Explore the Beatitudes and Woes of the Bible through the stories of thirteen Christian authors in this uniquely powerful anthology. These science fiction and fantasy stories will bring you to the point of tears, make you laugh, surprise you, amaze you, and inspire you. " Contributions in this amazing …
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