In my day job I love working with independent bookstores. I also love working with women-owned independent bookstores. One of my absolute favorites is Naughty Dog Books in Nashville, Indiana. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend stopping there. You'll love wandering through this former bank. It is charming, filled with great books, and just thoughtfully curated. Naughty Dog has … [Read more...]
A Springtime Game
I'm a Word Nerd, and as such, I love playing word games. Words with Friends, Boggle with Friends, UpWords, Taboo, Scattegories, Bananagrams, Scrabble. I even keep a crossword puzzle by my place at the kitchen table, so I always have some word fun to work on. I figure readers are word nerds, too, right? So why don't we play a word game together? Let's stretch our Word Nerd muscles and with some … [Read more...]
A community of readers and writers + Giveaway
Tuesday night over 185 of us in the Christian Fiction Reading Challenge came together on Zoom for our second month's conversation focused around books. Much like this community of writers on Inspired by Fiction and Life who love to create a space to celebrate readers and books, it's been a delight to watch what is happening as we all come together around topics we love: good books and our … [Read more...]
Five Things ChatGPT told Me about How I Manage My Time & Giveaway
A year ago, I was working on a grant process at the Big Ten university I teach at that involved how to more effectively incorporate AI into my teaching and classes. It was a six-week sprint, and I found it really interesting to think deeply about AI and how to use it with students. How does this relate to writing? Great question! As part of developing an assignment I asked ChatGPT what it … [Read more...]
Confidence versus Comparison: finding joy anyway + a giveaway
Once upon a time there was an author who wondered if anyone would ever read her books and enjoy them. Everywhere she looked, there was someone who sold more copies, hit more lists, and won more awards. The ways to measure success were everywhere. Numbers of reviews. Number of contracts signed. Even the number of books stolen to train AI. Then she one day she realized all the looking around her … [Read more...]
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