Sunday, May 25, 2014

Child's Play by Bill Myers

Just Released!
Child's Play (The Last Fool V1) by Bill Myers

AN INSIGHTFUL ADULT COMEDY...DECEPTIVELY FUN, PROFOUNDLY DEEP

TIME: Fifty years in the future. Religion has been banned.

LOCATION: Sisco Heights Mental Health Facility

CHARACTERS:

A seer who has delightful conversations with tattoos, electric shavers, and janitorial supplies.

A wannabe superhero, complete with shower cap, goggles, and bath towel cape.

A prophet who sees 20 seconds into the future.

An amnesiac who opens a fortune cookie and reads: "You are My favorite child. God."

Careful to avoid state scrutiny, these quirky characters begin to explore the amazing possibilities if such a statement is true. The thinking soon infects other patients and the government must tighten its noose until it is met with some startling surprises. A quick and fun read, this first novella of The Last Fool series will make you chuckle while pausing to think.


Bill Myers www.billmyers.com

Bill is a writer/producer whose work has won over 70 national and international awards including a C.S. Lewis Honor Award. His books and videos have sold over 8 million copies and include, McGee and Me, My Life As..., Blood of Heaven, The Face of God, The God Hater, and Eli. When he’s not overseeing his production company, Amaris Media International, he loves speaking at schools and chatting with reader groups live by phone or the internet.



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Friday, May 23, 2014

The Voices Were Silent

Years ago the masses didn't have an outlet. Now with the blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and other social sites, voices have given to those once silent. Opportunities abound to share God's love. Writers travel to conferences, submit work, pray and beg God for an open door to spread what is written.

However what if your blog, your web articles, Facebook posts, and Tweets are how God wants to use you? What if one post touches one life? What if what you write travels around the globe? What if one blog kept someone from committing suicide? What if your tenacity encourages others? What if God's road to publication is bigger than a book on a shelf?

Don't limit God by a narrow vision of what it means to be an author. God is the God who multiplies, exceedingly abundantly more than we ask or imagine. 


Be a Scribe. You no longer have a silent voice. Write what God prompts you to share.


“Then the Lord told me: ‘I will give you my message in the form of a vision. Write it clearly enough to be read at a glance.’” ~ Habakkuk 2:2 (CEV)





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Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Story You Need to Write



by Hilarey Johnson

When I was a kid, I asked my dad, “Why is it every song a girl sings is about a guy and every song a guy sings is about a girl? It’s always about love.”

He said, “What else is there?”

Romantic love.

I was married with a baby before I discovered Christian fiction. As a nursing mom (no money, lots of time) I devoured every book my grandma and mother-in-law bought.

After awhile, I grew tired of romances. Happily-ever-afters made me feel like I had received my quota...I was already married.

I started to write stories about other loves women experience. I wrote about adoption and healing after an affair. This was also about the time I started to attend conferences and discover most people who buy books really want romance in them.  

Romantic love.

What else is there? (Well, as Christians, we know.)

Susan Bell writes in The Artful Edit, (p. 10-11) “Write the story that needs to be written—not what you want to write. Refrain from imposing an inorganic idea in it or turn it into something it isn’t meant to be.
To write falsely is to not write at all.”

Although actually, that kind of writing usually means you have a job. If you are a ghost writer/blogger or write for newspapers, you know what I mean.

When I started Sovereign Ground I began it as a traditional romance with her perspective in the first chapter and his in the second…

But it mysteriously disappeared one day. It wasn’t the first partial book I’d lost or saved over, so I simply said “OK God, how should the book start?”
God answered, but it wasn't what I expected. It was the kind of story I wouldn't have attempted: spiritual suspense, the sex industry, vulnerability, and the innate need women have to be desired. It was the story that needed to be written.

I am a different person because of the experience, and because of the finished story. Follow Bell’s advice and do not impose your ideas on your story.

But go ahead and add a little romantic love.

  

Hilarey Johnson’s first novel, Sovereign Ground released May 2014. Connect with Hilarey on Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads Author Page or sign up for her newsletter to hear about freebies.