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. 😊
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