litlover12

 Some time ago, when I was working at BreakPoint, they moved their website to a new host, in the process losing a bunch of old content. Other staffers and I worked to transfer as much of it as we could -- a slow and difficult process in which we couldn't save everything we wanted to. I started to suspect that one day they might wipe out their archives altogether, so I told the writers I worked with to be sure and save copies of their old pieces so that one day, if the time came, they could upload it elsewhere. And I made sure to upload a bunch of my old pieces here on Dreamwidth. At the time I set them to private, as there was no need to have them published in two places.

Well, the time has now come. I was alerted yesterday that BreakPoint had indeed wiped out their archives. So I'll be setting my old pieces to public here. It may take a little time, as there are several of them, but hopefully they'll all be up before too long. As I posted them in 2017, you'll need to go back a few pages if you'd like to see any of them. But this note is not meant to be pushy about getting you to do that! I just wanted to post a sort of official notice that this is their new home.

 The book is out!

I've been doing publicity for it like crazy.

I'm pooped. 

But happy.

 . . . Christianity Today has a nice long new review of your forthcoming book, but it's print-only and your copy didn't come in today's mail and the bookstore doesn't have it yet!

ACK!

*runs hysterically in circles*

As we writers are prone to feeling like we've never done enough, I thought it might be good for the morale to look back over the year and see just how much I've actually published.

So we have:
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Just wanted to thank you all for the nice comments about the book. I confess I chuckled a bit over the comments that "it went so fast!" I guess it must have seemed fast, going by what I said here, but the truth is, I've been working on that book for literally years. It was only after I got the agent and the offer from the publisher that everything really accelerated.

All the more reason I'm thrilled to be done writing it! Of course lots of edits and revisions are before me, but editing is very different from actually having to create the thing.

Look at this gorgeous personalized graphic msantimacassar made me! I love it!! *jumps up and down*

And she's taking requests over at her LJ if you'd like one of your own!

Some articles are (relatively) easy to write; some articles are a bear to write. This one was a bear to write. I'm not sure why -- I guess there was just a lot I wanted to say, and I got anxious about finding the right ways to say it. But I finally, finally, FINALLY got it done, and I hope those of you who are into analysis of all things Star Wars will enjoy it!

(Major spoilers included.)

Speaking of Star Wars, I came across this piece the other day and got a chuckle out of it. Theory #1 is an English major's delight. I caught those missing commas too, and the implication immediately occurred to me. This is what happens when people are careless with their punctuation! 

Just popping in for a minute to share a bit of good news: Some of you know I'm writing a book about faith and singleness. (I've been writing it for quite some time, actually, as it's been going rather slowly.) On Monday, I got an agent! She's going to start submitting my proposal to publishers soon.

. . . Which means I have to get busy and get this thing written!!

*pops back out*

Here's my second Olympic figure skating piece, and here's my review of the new Bob Fosse biography!

Putting the finishing touches on another Atlantic article that I plan to submit tomorrow morning (cross your fingers for me!). It's funny how, whenever I write for them, I get scared. Absolutely freaking terrified. It doesn't happen with other publications, just that one.