Month: January 2010
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Marketing in the Internet Age: North! Or Be Eaten Day 3
While we have been blogging about Andrew Peterson, Andrew Peterson has been blogging about us. My favourite thing about CSFF Tours (even ones like this, which I hardly qualify as participating in because I didn’t read the book) is author involvement. Authors used to be sort of mythic. They didn’t live on the same planet…
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Childlikeness and Storytelling (North! Or Be Eaten, Day 2)
I haven’t, as I said yesterday, read North! Or Be Eaten, nor have I read Andrew Peterson’s first book. I’ve now read a bit of his blogging at The Rabbit Room (and intend to keep visiting long after this tour is over). I’m struck by Andrew’s vision of Christian art. In “About the Rabbit Room,”…
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North! Or Be Eaten: CSFF Blog Tour
Good morning, world! (OK, fine, technically it’s afternoon. But I have a morning sort of spirit today, so good morning it is!) Today marks the start of the first CSFF Blog Tour I’ve done since Haunt of Jackals, and alas and alack, this tour has gone awry. Our Fearless Leader’s computer crashed after I sent…
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Painful Perfection
I’ve been reading the Epistle to the Hebrews for the last few days, and yesterday was struck by the way God chose to perfect Jesus. If the Bible didn’t say that Jesus had to be made perfect, I wouldn’t believe it; I would believe that He was already totally perfect when He got here. But…
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Trusting God for Finances
Remember the “Work, For I Am With You” article I wrote a while back? It shared a lesson I learned last spring about trusting God for my income, and the subsequent slashing of my student roster: I went home simultaneously buoyed and subdued. I knew God might allow things to get worse before they got…
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Revisions and the Joy of Allegory
Today I plan to start revisions on The Advent. Step 1 is reading through the manuscript as it stands. This is always an interesting venture. I haven’t looked at it since I finished the first draft back in early December, and I have a short memory when it comes to my own writing. I also…
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Sick in the New Year
I planned to spend the new year in a sort of glowing rhapsody, resting, enjoying family over the holidays, eating Christmas cookies and reading novels. I planned to be refreshed, excited about the wonderful things to come. I planned to file the last of 2009’s receipts, lay out my goals and plans for the new…
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Happy New Year
(I am terrible at titles. I realize this post should have a more original one, but who can think up good titles at quarter to 2 in the morning?) So here we are, the end of one year, the start of another — more significantly, perhaps, the end of one decade, the start of another.…