I’v been working on a novel, RED STATE BLUES, about an hour a day, for two and a half years. I want to write this book, I want to see it represented, I want to see it published, I want to see it sold, I want to see it enjoyed. To have all of these [...]
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This week’s Interview In Confidence is with Author Gary Murning. I met Mr. Murning on Twitter about two weeks ago. He graciously answered my questions via e-mail. I hope you are as encouraged and inspired as I was. 1. Did you ever have a time in your life that you thought, “oh, I could never [...]
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1. Rain. Rain. Oh look, more rain. This is the same complaint I had in March except it was colder, fluffier and white. For the last three weeks, we’ve had, maybe, five days of sun? I just want you to know I’m ready for some real summer. I’m originally from Oklahoma, so I know that [...]
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For the last two weeks, I’ve been writing, rewriting and rewriting a long chapter in my novel, one in which a Church Singles group goes to Tahlequah, Oklahoma to canoe down the Illinois River. In real life, I’ve done this probably a dozen times. In my mind, as a result of working on this chapter, [...]
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Over the last two weeks, I’ve had the honor of interviewing via e-mail four authors, all in different phases of their career on the subject of confidence. Much could be written about how to publish or developing craft, but I wanted to address something I see little about, (and an area in which I struggle). [...]
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Back in the early days of this blog, I listed several ideas on how to squeeze in writing time. This was a subject dear to my heart because I was looking for any way possible to write around my life as a stay-at-home-mother of five. For my Top 10 List this week, I’m linking old [...]
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This week, I have the thrill to list for you ten links about agents, getting agents and what to say to an agent. I know that some of us are a long, long way from this whole writer/agent relationship. But I think that it doesn’t hurt to learn about how they think, what they are [...]
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Ideally, every Monday, I’m going to have a top ten list of links — kind of what I’m watching in the writing world. Well, it’s Monday. I got nuthin’. We had a really busy weekend which concluded with my bigger three kids staying with my in-laws for a few days. This means that the little [...]
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Katharine Grubb is a successful homeschooling mother of five, bread baker, reluctant dish washer and part-time novelist. If she can find time in her busy day to write, so can you!