Books
“Big Book Giveaway” Begins
Missy Frye has graciously allowed me to give away a copy of the Love-Idiot book in order to support the “Just Write Blog Carnival,” which has published numerous links to my own articles and stories. This is just the first in a large number of giveaways happening across the Internet over the coming weeks. I’ll [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: Talyn (again)
Driving up the Maine Turnpike this weekend, I took pause from, of all things, the landscape. Not just from the beauty of it, but I got a feeling that it was distinctly American. In Maine, the culture still retains some of the human community values that I often associate with the original Americans. And for [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: Talyn
I’ve been absent, as you may know, because my computer’s mainboard died, and I’ve been busy with a new software contract, and our only working car stopped working, and then my computer’s hard drive died. (Yes, I’m getting tired of it all.) As a result, I hadn’t had have much time to write over part [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: Truffles by the Sea (again)
I started Truffles by the Sea a couple months ago. Then life got in the way. Being an author and blogger is always a balancing act between reading and writing, and sometimes I fall off the high-wire. I’m about a quarter of the way through this Christian chick-lit— er, that is, beach-lit novel by Julie [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: The Prodigal God
For a study series with some of the gang from my church, I’ve been reading Timothy Keller’s The Prodigal God. In this short but profound book, Keller reexamines the so-called Parable of the Prodigal Son. He points out that the story is really about two sons, the younger brother, who squanders his share of his [...]
My Life Playing Musical Chairs: An Interview with Jen Knox
I’m sitting with Jen Knox, author of the indie memoir Musical Chairs, here in my virtual living room today. Hi, Jen. Hi, Tim. As you know, I loved Musical Chairs. What does the title allude to? “Musical Chairs” came from the name of a game, where music plays and kids run around a circle of [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: Truffles by the Sea
Determined to turn her life around, Gaby Flores moves to a beachfront loft, takes on a new motto–Be gullible no more–and begins to rebuild her flower store while searching for Mr. So Right. But when a lawsuit, an eviction notice, a near-empty bank account, and quirky neighbors invade her beachy world, not even chocolate can [...]
Now’s Your Chance to Get Back at Me
Just a quick announcement, since I was feeling ill this week and didn’t get to write a proper Friday post. If you want to get back at me for the picky comments I’ve been making on everyone’s books over at Goodreads, or if you thought one of my reviews was petty and opinionated (which it [...]
Teaser Tuesdays: Musical Chairs
Some weeks (or months) ago Jen Knox and I swapped memoirs. She sent me a copy of her book Musical Chairs, which explores her family’s history of mental health diagnoses, her years of strip-dancing, alcoholism, and estrangement, and her struggle for reconciliation. (That’s from the cover.) I also sent her a copy of Love through [...]
The Price of eBooks: 7 Reasons Why I’m Raising Mine
A couple months ago, I talked about why I believe e-books should be cheap. Big, scary (and scared) publishers tend to be raising prices on e-books, sky-high, sometimes charging as much for the e-book as for a hardcover. Responding to this trend, I advocated prices as low as possible, even under a dollar. Why then [...]