Everything You Need to Know About the Dreaded ‘M’ Word: An Interview on Marketing Yourself with Annmarie Miles
Annmarie Miles, social media trainer, shares some vital tips to ‘give us a bit of an edge,’ with marketing our books.
Writing Feature
Creating Engaging Characters Through Action and Dialogue
Good writing creates engaging characters by showing not telling. We shall use an example from Chapter 2 of the biblical Book of Ruth that is beautifully and economically written to demonstrate how we learn masses about three characters just from action and dialogue.
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The Jerusalem Where Mary Wandered and Wept
As I write about Mary of Nazareth, I am having to consider her Bethlehem, her Nazareth, her Jerusalem and anywhere else her account of her finding purpose after mothering Jesus takes me.
Transporting ourselves back in time, walk with me the streets of Jerusalem in Mary’s day.
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What Genre Do You Love?
What genre are you writing in when you take the Bible as inspiration? Exploring Biblical midrash, fiction and creative non-fiction.
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What’s in a Name? 6 Considerations When Naming Our Characters
Considerations when seeking the right name for our characters that evokes who they are, where they are from and when they lived.
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Creating Real Life Characters
How can we capture the character of real people we want to write about as real life characters? We need to observe the clues in whatever evidence we can find…
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The World’s First Murder: Interview With Author Natasha Woodcraft
How God helped Natasha Woodcraft write The Wanderer Scorned, a midrash about Cain, the world’s first murderer. Plus, her innovative book marketing strategy.
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Story World Experiment: Putting Flesh On The Barebones Of ‘Ruth’
An example of story world creation: the Book of Ruth
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Writing About Mary: Finding My Genre
Finding my genre to write about Mary of Nazareth and why it is important.
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