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My Bible study, "Basics in Bible Study" is up at lulu. http://www.lulu.com/content/1832478 You can buy it or you can download it to your computer or kindle for free. Please pass this message on to your friends. Here's a review from the rawsistaz http://www.therawreviewers.com/artman/publish/SeedsofBibleStudy.shtml Carole McDonnell Continue

My email addy is scifiwritir@gmail.com Basically, we'd just go through the psalms this year. From 1 to 150. Posting a new psalm in order every two or three days. We'd also link to other sites also in the tour. We can still post other stuff to our blog but there'd be that one continuing thread all year. It'd be a good way to get folks to our blogs if we got a lot of folks but even if we can't do that, at least we'll have folks from each other's blogs. And the main thing would be that we would… Continue

1. The Nemonymous editor requires a story judged suitable by its author for inclusion in the projected Cern Zoo book, planned to be published in June 2009. Ideally, this story should be specially written for ‘Cern Zoo’. 'Cern Zoo' (alternatively 'Cerne Zoo') simply means what it means to you. The above image is not intended to guide the nature of submissions and your story can have any title. 2. Between 500 and 14000 words for each story. 3. Lump sum payment in UK pounds to author upon publicati… Continue

This was an article I originally wrote for Christian Fiction Factor but it has some good points that fit spec-fic writers also. The Uses and Misuses of Inspiration. Carole McDonnell “The Lord gave me this idea.” How often I’ve heard a new writer say this? Often, this sentence preceded great stories. But just as often it introduced writings that were so half-baked I found myself searching for a tactful way to say “Please don’t blame the Lord for this.” Don’t get me wrong. I believe that God i… Continue