A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider has broken records by being nominated for 27 awards—the most ever for a single book—in The Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards! The judges shortlisted 16 articles and stories by 15 writers. Yes, one of them is my short story, “Twenty-five Years Later,” which chronicles the reunion of …
So pleased that our anthology, A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider, edited by Wendy E. Nelles and me, and featuring 37 Canadian writers, has won the 2012 Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award in the Gift Book category. All award winners are listed on the Christian Small Publishers Association’s (CSPA) website at www.christianpublishers.net …
The Word Guild decided it was time to have its first Blog Award this year, for two consecutively-written blogs. Guess who won? Yes, I did. The blogs I entered were “The movement to re-engineer writers:” and “Listening with Your Mind and Your Heart.” I’ll be posting both of them on here in the next couple …
I posted a little while ago that Shaded Light and another book of mine, Hot Apple Cider, were both nominated to be the “one book” for the Church Library’s of Ontario “One Book / One Conference” October 3rd along with a number of other great books, including The Shack and The Book of Negroes. I’m delighted to …
Last week was very busy and I’m still recovering. You go like crazy for a week or so and tehn eventually the adrenalin runs out and you kind of crash. But it’s fun while it lasts. Anyway, on Wednesday night, I attended The Word Guild Awards Gala in Mississauga, where I received three Canadian Christian …
Unfortunately, the way it works is that when there are urgent things needing doing for The Word Guild, my own writing gets sadly neglected – including this site. I've actually been working like mad on Write! Canada and on starting a new site for The Word Guild Awards. But I was reminded last night that …
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