Contact: Heidi Daehlin, 612-849-8358 MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 27 /Christian Newswire/ – A new book for moms unabashedly tackles the taboo topics of parenting and aims to unite women and change the way mothers look at themselves and each other. MotherBear: The Raging Mom Within! addresses issues like rebellious kids, feeling judged, facing obsessive insecurities, and the difficult task of entrusting God [...]

Do you know the difference between a memoir and an autobiography? Do you know which sells? Chip MacGregor weighs in on the issue in his latest blog post entitled Let’s Talk Memoir: There’s a difference between “memoir” and “autobiography.” An autobiography is a straight retelling of one’s life — what happened, what were the events/decisions, [...]

Mary DeMuth (one of the many expert providers at BelieversPress) has a great guest post over at Michael Hyatt’s blog (CEO of Thomas Nelson). Read Do Authors Really Need to Promote Their Own Books? and let us know what you’re doing to promote your book in the comments below.

"The writer is a priest called to administer the sacrament of words." — Bruce Lockerbie # "I realized that my measure of success was not found in acceptance letters or bylines. It was found in being faithful." — Karen Morerod #

For those of you who love lists, here’s another list of ten common mistakes I see writers make when they come through The Writing Spa. Check and see if you make these mistakes too. And if you do, choose to make 2010 the year you change the way you write. 1 Starting the story too [...]

Present-tense narration is widely popular today, for many good reasons. Let’s not get into the pros and cons; my purpose is to deal with a thorny practical matter that always comes up when you choose to narrate a story in present tense. To my mind, the most difficult aspect of present-tense narration is sequence of [...]