I just recently finished judging entries for two writing contests. One of them needs published authors for the second round of judging, so I volunteered for that, also. I want to encourage all unpublished writers to enter contests! It’s a great way to get feedback from readers and published authors! You may receive some great tips that’ll help you get published along the way!
Cecelia Dowdy
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To mothers all over the world, Happy Mother’s Day!
Cecelia Dowdy
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I visited this store today and throughly browsed through the fiction section. I noticed that they had five Heartsong Presents titles, however, they were old, published back in 2005. I’ve been told that some Family Christian Bookstores stock the new Heartsong Presents titles prominently in their stores, with an end cap. However, I’ve never seen current Heartsong Presents titles in Christian or secular bookstores. Since I have a book coming out with them, it would please me to see the book in the store at the same time that the bookclub members receive their titles.
However, I did see PLENTY of Barbour’s state-themes anthologies. I also saw a few of Barbour’s women’s fiction titles.
Randy Alcorn, the author of the non-fiction title Heaven, has a novel out. I didn’t realize that. It’s called Deception. I’ve never read Heaven, since I’m mainly a fiction gal, however, it has crossed my mind to read this title. Maybe I’ll consider reading it when and if I ever get finished with The Purpose Driven Life. I also wonder whose idea it was for Randy Alcorn to pen a novel? Did his publisher ask him to pursue it since he was so popular in non-fiction, and this would be another avenue of writing for Randy to explore?
Speaking of non-fiction authors penning fiction novels, I purchased a novel my Michelle Mckinney Hammond entitled The Last Ten Percent. Ms. Hammond usually writes Christian non-fiction about dating, being single, and relationships. I wonder why she felt compelled to write a novel? I’ll definately post a review of the novel whenever I get around to reading it.
Thr3e, which was released as a movie last January is already out on DVD. I was surprised that it was available so soon after it’s theatrical release.
In addition to The Last Ten Percent, the other books I purchased were:
Sticks And Stones by Susan Meissner
and for my toddler son: All Things Bright And Beautiful
Cecelia Dowdy
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North Carolina, that is. My family and I are going to Charlotte, North Carolina over the next few days. Hopefully, I’ll find the time to visit a few Christian bookstores along the way.
Cecelia Dowdy
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I’m still shocked and saddened over the massive deaths at Virginia Tech. We need to lift up the students, family, and staff in prayer. Father, please help them with the pain and anguish they are going through.
Cecelia Dowdy
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My next book, John’s Quest is about an agnostic who finally accepts God. Since John (my fictional character) is a scientist, he uses logic and science to try and discover God’s existence.
When I heard about Teen Apologetics Conference yesterday on the radio, I could imagine somebody who attended this conference, talking to John, giving him the evidence that God really does exist. It sounds like it will be a great conference.
Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com
I never dye Easter eggs, however, I figured a lot of my readers do. I found this site about dyeing Easter eggs. I know some use PAAS to dye their eggs. Since I have a young son, I figure I’ll be dyeing eggs within the next year or so, and they’ll probably talk about the Easter egg tradition in my son’s daycare. When I talk about Easter, I usually focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus, since that’s the true message of Easter. If I feel so inclined, I’ll be posting more Easter thoughts and musings later this week.
Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com
This is something I’ve always wondered about…what happened to Amelia Earhart. I remember when I was a kid, walking around the neighborhood with one of my friends, we would stop and talk and wonder about what happened to her. What can I say, we were bored and had nothing else to do but wonder about things to waste time! When I logged onto AOL, they posted the following article about the mystery (hopefully the link still works!) :
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/new-clues-emerge-in-earhart-mystery/20070330225509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
I don’t get how the ‘evidence’ found over the years was either ignored or not taken seriously, well, not too seriously. They need to wrap up this mystery! It’s been 70 years!
As an author, I’m always looking for new ideas for novels, and I keep things in mind that intrigue me.
Until next time,
Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com
I haven’t been blogging the last couple of days because I don’t feel well. I’m trying to get rid of this cold that I caught from my son. My son probably caught it from his daycare.
My tulips have started coming up out of the ground. Hopefully, they’ll be as pretty as the ones in the picture above!
Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com
I received a weird email today from my sister that had been forwarded several times. The email claimed that the comedian Sinbad had died. He’s best known for his role in the TV series A Different World. He played a guy named Walter, I believe? He also starred in a few other TV series as well as a few movies. Well it turns out that his death is a hoax. He’s still alive! But tons of people were thinking he was dead because apparently, somebody had gotten into Wikipedia and edited the encyclopedia entry for Sinbad, giving him a date of death (yesterday’s date). They also said that he’d died of a heart attack!
If you look at Wikipedia now, they’ve corrected Sinbad’s encyclopedia reference and the death date no longer exists. They’ve also locked Sinbad’s entry so that it can’t be edited by new users.
A story was recently posted this evening on the reuters website about this legend:
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=411852007
For some reason, urban legends have always fascinated me. It’s strange, that in a matter of a few hours(or minutes) you can have tons of people believing such untruths!
What a world we live in!
Cecelia Dowdy
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