Two New Reviews on Amazon of “Untethered” – 081425 Erin Holder 5.0 out of 5 stars A great late night read. Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2025 Verified Purchase Now here’s one I really liked. I loved the concept for this book. Most of Wise’s books leave me a little unsatisfied. Never quite […]
Category: AUTHOR THOUGHTS
Author Thoughts – GriefShare – 081425 We finished week 2 of 13 weeks of GriefShare this evening. As a facilitator, I always want to see signs of progress with our participants. It may be selfish of me to want to see an impact each week, but that’s not always the case. The program is 13 […]
Author Thoughts Today – Resurfacing – 081325 What does an author do when an established character gets blindsided by a new character in the story? Not just a new character, but one created by the originally established character. Maybe nepotism works both ways. AIMEE has been my favorite since Zackery gave her a name. Zack […]
Book #6 in the Dreamscape Conspiracy series is under a working title for now, but methinks it’s going to stick – “Undaunted.” Titles rarely come to me so early in the story development process. In this case, I felt that “Undaunted” was what Amelia Amethys needed to be if she had any chance of becoming […]
Author Thoughts Today – Mark Batterson’s “Please, Sorry, Thanks” – Day 2 of 5 – 081225 “Let There Be Light” The Doppler effect tells us that the universe is still expand¬ing. In other words, the words God spoke, in the beginning, are still creating galaxies at the outer edge of the universe. The universe is […]
Author Thoughts Today – Mark Batterson’s “Double Blessing” – Day 4 of 5 – 080825 “Take the mercy of God, for example. The mercy God has shown you is as unique as your fingerprint. The writer of Lamentations said that God’s mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22–23). The Hebrew word for “new” doesn’t just mean “again […]
Author Thoughts Today – Mark Batterson’s “Double Blessings” – 080725 “You cannot claim the promises of God like a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey, but every promise has your name on it. Every blessing in the Bible is part and parcel of our spiritual birthright by virtue of what Christ accomplished on […]
Mark Batterson’s “Chase the Lion” Devotional – Day 7 of 7 Just because something isn’t part of your life plan doesn’t mean it’s not a part of your destiny. Without me even knowing it, God has been fulfilling his call on my life. My job is to obey God with a keyboard, with a pulpit. […]
Author Thoughts Today – July 31, 2025 I read several devotionals from different authors, and this morning’s writing by Oswald Chambers, a preacher of the deeper spiritual life, resonated with me. What stood out was the last sentence. God places us in darkness to test and train us, so that we may endure until we […]
Author Thoughts Today – July 30, 2025 Mark Batterson’s “Chase the Lion” is a seven-day devotional keying on the theme of his book “Chasing a Lion Into a Pit on a Snowy Day”. The story is from the Old Testament, featuring a character named Benaiah who appears in the book of 2 Samuel. He never […]