But also in other writing news, I signed a contract yesterday with Mt. Zion Ridge Press for my children's book that is I titled, "Stuck in the Middle" but publishers sometimes change book titles, so this is subject to change. This is the same book that had formally been contracted for publication with Elk Lake, but they had to drop all of their contracted children's titles due to some internal company changes. This, my debut children's book, is now set to release sometime in 2025.
I am so excited about the new devotional book Shirley Crowder and I co-wrote. It will be releasing from Entrusted Books in April. This book is a real treasure! It combines devotions based on Bible nuggets written by me and devotions based on hymns written by Shirley. Amazon links will be posted later when I have them.
I was looking at my last
blog post and thought I'd give an update on how '24 is coming along.
February:
· It's well into February now and Shirley
and I have turned in the finished manuscript for the second in our new
devotional series. This one will be called "Wonder & Worship Through
The Year" and will not release by Entrusted Books until spring of '25. We've also completed
our second round of edits on the first "Wonder & Worship" which
is releasing in April of this year. Soon we'll get galley edits and more
excitingly, soon we will have a cover reveal for it! Stay tuned.
· I also have gotten back the final version
of an article I co-wrote with a friend, Annette Teepe, for “Answers in Genesis” kid’s
magazines about eagles. We are not sure when this article will be published but
our final version has been accepted and contracts signed.
· I got back the final layout of an article I
wrote a few weeks ago about my father writing a prescription for an ice cream cone in 1957 that
will be published in “Blue Ridge Country” magazine in the next month or two.
· I was asked to write a spring article for “Hearts
of Hospitality” magazine and now have finished it and turned it in to the editor.
· And I registered for the EPA (Evangelical
Publications Association) conference in April. Yay!
· I still do not know if I will have finger
joint replacement surgery on the 15th but my guess is it will get
pushed back yet again.
March:
· The new thing on my writing agenda for March
is that I was asked by much-loved Christian author, Liz Curtis Higgs, to teach a
workshop on memoir writing at a conference she is holding at Christ Methodist Church,
a large Methodist church here in Louisville, called the “Called to Write” conference.
I am excited about this opportunity. If I had not had hand surgery scheduled on
2/15, I would have been in Memphis the same weekend at the MidSouth Christian
Writers Conference and would not have been able to accept this request. God has
a way of working things out.
But in other news … I was
inspired to write a novel last September when I took a vacation trip to Hilton
Head, SC and went on a one-day excursion to Savannah, GA. And now I am 40,000
words into it and loving writing it! I’ll tell you more about it at a later time.
For now I’ll just tell you that it has pirates in it. 😊
