I am pleased to announce that my new book on Zacchaeus has been accepted for publication. I have been told that it is 100% a go, and that I will be receiving the contract soon. I’m quite thrilled! This was an incredibly fun book to write. Of the feedback I have received on the manuscript, [...]

Continue reading...

I was sick as a dog the day before I was supposed to fly out of my home city.  I mean really sick.  My son had just recovered from a nasty stomach flu, and I had the pleasure of coming down with the same yucky flu.  I was optimistic, though, that I could kick it, [...]

Continue reading...

Lately, there has been a lot of debate (at least in the publishing circles I circulate in) about Biblical Fiction.  This is the genre that I write for, and it is one I feel quite passionately about. There are two view points.  The first is that fictionalizing the Bible is wrong.  If you add anything [...]

Continue reading...

Tonight, somewhere around 3 am, we will get up and head off to the airport.  From there, we will go to see my parents in Toronto for one night, and then I take my excursion into the States for the TV interview.  I’m quite excited! A few days ago, my son came down with a [...]

Continue reading...

A lot of people would like to be writers.  They have a vision in their heads of what being a writer would be like.  They think that they would sit in an overstuffed armchair in a cozy library.  They would think deep thoughts as they walked along tree-lined streets.  They would sit down with a [...]

Continue reading...

I have a dream that one day I will get a full night of sleep. I couldn’t sleep thorugh the night while pregnant, and when my son was born, he had to do a lot of catching up and nursed every half hour to an hour. Now he is fifteen months old and still nursing [...]

Continue reading...

I have a dream that one day I will get a full night of sleep. I couldn’t sleep thorugh the night while pregnant, and when my son was born, he had to do a lot of catching up and nursed every half hour to an hour. Now he is fifteen months old and still nursing [...]

Continue reading...

The novel idea that struck me last week successfully turned into a chapter outline and a synopsis of the book. I’m quite excited about the idea, but now is the waiting game. I sent the idea off to my publishers, and I must wait to hear what they think of it. Is it something they [...]

Continue reading...

On Sabbath, an idea for a novel hit me.  It is a good idea, I think!  A very good idea.  I won’t outline it here because I have an innate distrust of posting unfinished work online, but I’m quite excited about it.  So I promptly emailed my editor and asked her what she thought of [...]

Continue reading...