Re-emerging

Mar 062012
 
 March 6, 2012  N. J.'s Books Comments Off
Re-emerging

If you look really closely, you'll see a small turtle hidden in the reeds in this picture I took at Wye Marsh a few years ago. Today, I'm feeling a lot like that turtle—scared to stick my neck out, wondering if I should just stay out of sight, pretend I'm not even here. My so-called career as a writer and speaker has been sadly neglected over the last few years—just as neglected as this website. Believe it or not, I started writing my third Manziuk and Ryan mystery over two years ago, and only got the first chapter written. And [ Read more...]

Interview Up

Jan 252010
 
 January 25, 2010  News No Responses »

There's an interview with Patricia Paddey posted at the Write! Canada site this morning. Patricia interviewed Wendy Nelles and me, as directors of Write! Canada, about our long association with the conference and our vision for the future.  Ironically, Wendy and I both attended the conference for the first time in 1988, and we were both on the planning committee for many years. But we really didn't know each other at all until we started trying to save the conference in 2001. We've worked very closely since then, in almost daily communications. The interview

Remembering a workshop I did once

May 272009
 
 May 27, 2009  Business of writing, Personal No Responses »

I posted this on the Write! Canada website today. Even if you aren't a writer, you might find it a fun read. In the fall of 1995, when Audrey Dorsch resigned as the editor of Faith Today and director of the God Uses Ink Conference, I was part of the planning committee. Even though Faith Today was short-staffed and assistant editor Marianne Meed Ward knew she could not handle the workload of both putting out the magazine and organizing the conference, we decided to go ahead and hold the 1996 conference. Larry Matthews, who had been part of the committee, [ Read more...]