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You Can Now Order My Book!

It’s here! Amazon listed my book and you can now preorder it here. You can also order the Kindle version here.

And get this — with almost no promotion we’re the #1 New Release in Christian Stewardship! Plus we’ve been in the top ten for Social Issues, and among the top 100 in Personal Growth.

Wow! I’m stunned by this response! All writers wonder if anybody is going to buy their book, but I had good reason to wonder. Let’s face it — I’m not a household name, do not have a big platform of followers, and a …

Junkyard Wisdom Book, So you think you're a writer?,

It’s starting to seem real now!

With the release of the book just two months away it’s starting to seem real now! My publisher just posted this about the book, which is a great explanation of the theme and focus of my writing. Let me know what you think!

The last few weeks have been filled with edits, galley reviews, cover details, and on and on. It’s all fun of course, but there’s a ton of detail involved. Really thankful to have a talented co-writer in David Jacobsen, an assistant in Anne with an eye for detail, and a patient D’Aun as I answer email …

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I Have a Publisher!

Last week I did something that I thought would never happen: I signed a book contract with a publisher!

I never thought it would happen because the publishing industry is changing rapidly, and no-name authors like me usually have to go the self-publishing route. Throughout this book journey it seemed unlikely I’d find a traditional publisher.

But then a contact in the publishing industry suggested Deep River Books in Oregon. I emailed Bill Carmichael, their principal, and for the last couple of months we’ve had some great conversations.

The most important thing to me was control over the final product.

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Progress on the Book

Today is the last day of my writing sabbatical and I head home this afternoon. The book is coming together really well and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with David. We worked well together with many laughs and almost no disagreements. And the result is we have a solid working outline, more stories than we know what to do with, and all the Scripture references to back up the lessons in the stories.

One other positive step is a highly respected thought leader has agreed to write the foreward. I’m not sharing who it is just yet because so much …