Jefferson Bethke, from his Facebook page Jefferson Bethke of Tacoma, WA posted a Youtube video on 1/10/2012 which has 10,886,714 views as of 1/15/2012 which is entitled "Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus." Because of some of the more outlandish comments people posted, he posted this on his facebook page on Friday 1/13/2012 "If … Continue reading Viral Video by Jefferson Bethke: “Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus.”
Elk Jerky for the Soul: It's tough, but you need it!
Some recent blog interviews for our books. Thank you! http://marjilaine.blogspot.com/2012/01/author-interview-with-mary-c-findley.html http://davidcleinman.com/writings/education/curiouser-and-curiouser-an-authors-adventures-in-twitterland/ http://nicolestorey.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/guest-post-by-mary-c-findley/ For the "I Want to Write Historical Fiction but I Don't Want to Research" Writer I write historical fiction, but I do not like a whole lot of detail in the books I read, nor do I really like to write it. Hope … Continue reading Author interviews and Historical Research for Hope and the Knight and the Black Lion
Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts, in full "Be Our Guest" mode, from the stage show of Beauty and the Beast at Walt Disney World. It was a great show!Our journey in self-publishing, or indie-publishing, or whatever it is that we do, has recently begun to include the concept of guest-posting. This is when another blogger, … Continue reading Guest-Posting
I belong to a Facebook page called Indie Writers Unite! As part of our "membership," we share blog space with the other writers in the group in something called "blog hops." Today Helmy Kusuma has the floor. Welcome, Helmy! I am Helmy Kusuma and a writer from Indonesia. I mostly write in English, though. My … Continue reading Guest Post by Helmy Kusuma
I set up a Twitter account awhile back because that was on my promotional "to-do" list. However, I did not really understand what it was for, so I did not use it much. I tweeted our blog posts, and that was pretty much it. My experience with Twitter was somewhat like Alice staring down the … Continue reading Curiouser and Curiouser … An Author’s Adventures in Twitterland
To those in states with Primaries, the entire Caucus system seems confusing. We stayed up until 2:00 AM to watch the media proclaim Mitt Romney the winner by 8 votes. But the popular vote is not what counts. What counts is the delegates sent to the national Republican convention. While nothing is certified at this … Continue reading Rick Santorum Won in Iowa! Or, How Much Difference Can Just One Delegate Make?
It seems like every day someone is asking me this. So I am finally writing this blog and from now on will just link to this if anyone online asks me. First, I will support the candidate who most closely supports the United States Constitution and has a chance of winning the general election. The … Continue reading So Which Republican Candidate Do You Support? And Why?
Also, please check out our cover redesigns and let us know what you think! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.351117068247836.100610.149992491693629&type=1 Every Star Trek the fan must admit that nothing exciting ever happens until someone does something incredibly stupid. By writing this story from the first person point of view of a 17-year-old girl, Mary Findley makes the opening chapters very … Continue reading Review of Hope and the Knight of the Black Lion by Michael Findley and Guest blog “Character Interview”for Vienta
I commented to a Mitt Romney supporter that he should be careful to be honest. He immediately wrote back that I was calling him a liar. No, I was just cautioning him. With the latest Ann Coulter column from TownHall.com, however, I believe a line was crossed. http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/12/28/only_one_candidate_is_right_on_the_two_most_important_issues/page/full/ There are two parts to this article. … Continue reading Is Mitt Romney Really Our Only Hope?
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … Continue reading 2011 in review
The writer in yesterday's post said to me, "using profanity is not a sin but being judgmental is." She says this like a doctrinal statement, like she knows it to be a fact. But I don't find a statement like that anywhere in the Scriptures. It sounds to me like a personal opinion. The Apostle … Continue reading How You, Too, Can Become Judgmental and Legalistic
Recently I offered to review a book for another author. She warned me that it contained some sex and language. I said I could objectively review a book that wasn't intended for Christians. But then she told me it was intended for Christians, so I wondered what I was getting myself into. I read the … Continue reading Judgmental Sinner … Yep, I Guess That’s Me
When a person begins work as a 3D animator, he has to keep in mind that he will be expected to work as part of a team and be productive. There are different methods of determining productivity, but usually he will be expected to come "up to speed" quickly. A military background, for example, should … Continue reading 3D Animation Work
The popular vote in 2008 was [Barack Obama] 69,456,897 to [John McCain] 59,934,814, respectively, according to Wikipedia. As we travel back and forth, up and down, we have talked to thousands who testify that they voted for Barack Obama in 2008 but will not vote for him again. This time around they just will not … Continue reading By the Numbers
South Tulsa Baptist Church We spent Christmas in Tulsa, Ok. We spent a lot of time with our daughter, and went to Chili's for lunch yesterday with her and my Aunt and Uncle. We went to my Aunt and Uncle's church, South Tulsa Baptist Church for communion last night. There were well over a thousand … Continue reading Christmas 2011
All of our e-books are now marked down for our After Christmas sale. Unillustrated books are now $2.99 and illustrated books are $6.99. (The Teachers Edition of Biblical Studies remains at 99 cents, however.) If you got an e-book reader for Christmas and haven't filled it up yet, follow the links on the right side … Continue reading After Christmas Sale!
Science Fiction can glorify God if the writer can keep his facts straight. It's a haven for uniformitarianism, the perfectibility of man, in short, secularism of all kinds. But since true Science is based in the Scriptures, true Science Fiction must be based in factual information and reasonable speculation based on what may happen. Man … Continue reading Writing and Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy
Our books don't quite pigeonhole easily into one genre, so we try to give them descriptions like the one above. The three books featured today are Send a White Rose, The Baron of Larcondale, and Vienta. In the spirit of romance, we include here some excerpts from these three books on the subject of true … Continue reading Put a Little Adult Historical Romantic Suspense on Your EReader
We all need heroes, and some of us even need to be heroes. The vigilante seeking justice is certainly not a new or original idea, but R.M. Strong has put, for me, a highly desirable twist on it with the story teenaged Tamara Weatherby. I'll talk about the twist shortly. Tamara's family and scores of … Continue reading Review of Karis by R.M. Strong
Writing fiction for and/or about children (roughly eight to fifteen years of age) is a tricky business. It is easy to appeal to their vivid imaginations, their need to be "special," accepted by peers, to become independent of adults, and to explore relationships with the opposite sex. None of these popular topics for children's books … Continue reading Historical Fiction for the Young and the Young Adult
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