Writing Updates

I have not posted in a while, mostly because I am waiting with bated breath for some updates on "A Stand for Truth", the soon-to-be-released book I co-wrote with my husband, so I could pass that on to you. But the publishing process always takes longer than authors like. Frankly, authors would like a publisher to complete his work in mere days but in actuality, publishers put an awful lot of work into a book and I am just thankful to have found one brave enough to publish this tell-all book about the conservative resurgence at Southern Seminary.

So, instead I will give you some freelance updates. Coming out in the next few months:

SEEK: this magazine is closing soon but they published an article by me on May 19. I sure am going to miss them!

Green Prints: is a gardening magazine who has contracted with me for a humorous article about weeds which will appear in their magazine sometime this summer.

The Secret Place: I received notice (and a check) from them for a devotion they will be publishing in their fall issue.

Bible Advocate: I have an article on missions coming out in July titled, "Catch the Fire."

Blue Ridge Country: Contracted with me last year to publish a memoir titled, "High School Football and the Age of Innocence." It is a regional magazine and I am thrilled to have a cross-over piece in a secular magazine. It will come out late summer or early fall.

Many of these pay on publication. The work is done and now comes the fun parts--complimentary copies coming in the mail and payment!

In addition to these, I have received word from Purpose Magazine and Bible Advocate of acceptances for articles coming out in 2020 and apparently am still in the final cut list for a story in Chicken Soup's Christmas book.

I also still speak and have book signings. I just spoke to an amazing group of girls and their mothers at a Mother-Daughter dinner at a local church and held a book signing at my mother's church in Augusta, SC. (Btw, I welcome speaking invitations, if any reading this are in need of a speaker.)

And I keep busy writing and mentoring. In fact, on my agenda today is to edit a piece that a new, unpublished writer hopes to submit to Chicken Soup, post two blog posts, and work on a freelance submission to another magazine.

But meanwhile, I am still super busy with book-writing. On the docket are two books to be released this year (one of them being "A Stand for Truth") another manuscript due to my publisher by my co-writer and me this August, and one we are just starting that is due next Feb. All of these will require a lot more work requested by me from the publishers before the books actually make it to press. Whew! It's a good thing I love what I do!