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Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese

It all began with Eureka.

I grew up believe science fiction to be for those people over there. Oh, sure, there was Star Wars, and who could deny the greatness of Star Wars but beyond that, well, we didn't need anything beyond that. In fact, when my boyfriend (now husband) told me he liked Star Trek, it was almost a deal breaker for me.

Podcast: The Story of Your Life, Part One

It happened one night, it was a dark and stormy night, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No matter how it begins, everyone has a story to live. This series looks at the story of the Christian life. Part One reviews the overarching narrative in which we play a part.

The podcast is just under 6 min.

Movies and Theology--The Dark Knight

Wow.

I mean, wow.

You know you have an overactive imagination when...

I was walking toward the bathroom. As I approached the front entryway, I heard a VROOOM! VROOOM! I peeked around the corner and outside the door. There, right in front of my door was the shadowy figure of a man!

My heart palpitated then hid in my throat.

He's got a chainsaw! He's going to chainsaw through my front door and kill me!* And with my new old cell phone** I can't get coverage in my house most of the time. I have no way to call 911! I'm going to die!

The Arbitrary in Art

We've had some lovely conversations here about the idea of the objective-ness in art. I've pushed that there's more to art than our preference, that there is some standard of good art and bad art. I've done this for a couple of reasons:

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Favorite artist (performance, visual, or literary): Sondheim (musical composer and lyricist)

About Me:: I have a habit of breaking into song and dance. I'm a writer, which means that I can hear voices in my head without being considered crazy.
Okay, so maybe some people consider me crazy.

Website:: http://www.heatheragoodman.com

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Noise Trade

FYI: check out Noise Trade, a new way of buying and bartering for music. It's the brain child of Derek Webb. Hat tip to Linda Gilmore for discovering it.

Posted on July 3rd, 2008 at 10:37am — No Comments (Add)

Books on Writing--Crafting Scenes by Raymond Obstfield

This was a great book. Mike Snyder recommended it to me. It's good for both literary and genre writing and helped me analyze each scene while doing revisions on a book--both within the scenes and the scenes in the overall picture of the book. It looks at things such as starting the scenes, ending the scenes, purpose of the scenes, set-up and payoff and making sure you balance those. Each chapter (which are short) has a writing exercise. Also, toward the end, to help look at the balance and layou… Continue

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 at 1:42pm — No Comments (Add)

Win a $50 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble

It's time for the unveiling. A contest. A contest with a prize. A prize I myself wouldn't mind winning, to be honest. Fifty dollars to use as you choose at any Barnes and Noble. Many of you know about my monthly ezine, Glimpses. In each issue, I feature people who are incarnating Christ (i.e. living out Christ) in their story and in their art. I also have a devotional about incarnating Christ as the Church. (And a monthly giveaway.) I'd love to get subscriptions up. You see, I have some awesome… Continue

Posted on May 19th, 2008 at 9:43pm — No Comments (Add)

Genesis

AHHH! I'm a Genesis finalist (Women's Fiction cat)! I'm so excited!

Posted on April 12th, 2008 at 8:15am — 1 Comment (Add)

Transforming Culture through Art conference

Technically, it's called Transforming Culture: A Vision for the Church and Arts. No matter. Either way, I'm going! I couldn't be more excited! Eugene Peterson, Jeremy Begbie, Craig Detweiller (co-author of one of my favorite books, Matrix of Meaning), Reg Grant (actor, author, and first reader of my thesis--I think they may have that last part in his bio), Luci Shaw, and a ton of others. People, this is going to be big. This is going to be fun. Think about being around all these artsy Christians… Continue

Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 10:56am — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 8:23pm on June 3rd, 2008, David Gorgone said…: Lived here all my life. In fact, I have lived near the same town all my life. Sad huh? I am right outside of Philly. Are you from NJ? When are you coming?

At 1:26pm on May 31st, 2008, Dineen A. Miller said…: Thanks for the welcome, Heather! Accountability may be just what I need. Right now I'm trying to get my enjoyment back for writing and have stepped back from publishing for a while. We'll see what happens. :-)

At 10:06am on April 12th, 2008, Sue Dent said…: It's easy to describe facts. LOL That's the way it is. CBA/ECPA serve a niche market and very well I might add! :) But they do little to serve the general Christian market. Absolutely no one outside CBA and ECPA use CBA to define "Christian" fiction or ABA to define everything else. It doesn't make sense.

As I said, my publisher is traditional. This means they pay advances, standard royalties and have an official distributor that has legitimate ties to the two largest wholesalers Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Their books are available everywhere at every bookstore on the planet.

Now here's the nice twist. Because they aren't a CBA or ECPA affiliated publisher, meaning they didn't pay the upwards of $600 to join, you won't find their work in most Christian bookstores. The nice catch is any Christian bookstore can carry their books because they distribute through Ingram/Spring Arbor but most Christian bookstores believe that no Christian reader wants to read anything other than CBA/ECPA published books. How nice is that!

It isn't any more difficult to find a Christian publisher who markets to the general Christian market. They're everywhere. Writersmarket.com even has those that choose to be, broken out under Christian. Almost every traditional publisher I know of publishes stories by Christians. And BTW, that's Christian fiction. :)

At 8:33am on April 12th, 2008, Sue Dent said…: LOL That is a loaded question. You see, CBA and ECPA are two affiliations that that publishers join in order to market their books to a very conservative evangelicial niche market. There are content guidelines, words you can and can not say etc . . . to keep authors in line so this market doesn't get offenede. There are also certain ways you have to write that doesn't appeal to the general Christian market as a whole. CBA publishers are Christian but they do NOT market to all Christians. ABA is how CBA/ECPA describe every other publisher who isn't a part of the affiliation. They do not use the term correctly. ABA doesn't mean "secular" publisher. ABA is an affiliation also but only for Independent booksellers and Indpendent publishers to join should they want to take advantage of what they have to offer, showing up in cataglogs that go out to other Indpendent bookstores etc . . . ABA isn't a market and never has been. My current publishers The Writer's Cafe Press is a traditional Christian publisher. They publish for the broader Christian(general not CBA/ECPA conservative evangelical) market and also general market. If you're attempting to get published by a CBA/ECPA publisher and you're wanting to write for the general Christian Market you'll be like a fish out of water. Find a publisher that isn't CBA or ECPA affiliated. And remember this, a publishers isn't "secular" just because they're not CBA/ECPA affiliated, it just means they don't target the market CBA/ECPA does. :) Many publishers are Christian but just don't attach the label to their name.

Oh, I hope I didn't bog your guestbook down there. :)

At 1:26pm on March 28th, 2008, Sue Dent said…: The CBA nor the ECPA have any plans to expand or change their market. They've made this quite clear and they aren't new either. They've been at this since for some time. They serve a highly conservative evangelical niche market and they make a lot of money doing it.

The only thing to remember is that they do not market to nor do they represent the Christian general market. Their restrictions are geared not to offend conservative Christian evangelicals.

The good news is, it doesn't matter whether they change and decide to serve the general Christian market. Other publishers have already taken the lead! It is disconcerting however when CBA won't make it known they serve a niche market except to authors and publishers. :(

They prefer that everyone think of them as the ONLY Christian market out there and if you don't write for them, well, your works is simply "secular."

I can't cut them any slack. It's been going on too long.

Hey wait, is this in the what are you reading thread? Okay. I'm reading Grisham's latest. Guess what? He's a Christian and so his work is Christian Fiction. And he's not CBA affiliated so if you read general market Christian fiction, . . there ya go!!!

At 6:30pm on March 11th, 2008, Andy said…: Hi Heather - thanks for checking out my site. Interesting you should use the word "scuba" as I used to do a lot of diving (and hope to again once we return to the US).
Peace,

At 11:21am on March 10th, 2008, Brandon Satrom said…: No, and I need to start. I am almost done reading Coach's Midnight Diner and plan to start The Gun Seller next. I am looking forward to it...

At 10:07pm on February 28th, 2008, Victor said…: Thanks for the welcome, Heather. Hopefully I'll get the hang of this site because it seems like an interesting place. I usually just keep all of this creativity/artsy/whatever stuff inside my head and the only outlet I have is my blog or, now, a story. I'm looking forward to discussing the art-faith intersection with like-minded people.

At 12:54pm on February 27th, 2008, Mark Goodyear said…: Sorry it took me so long, Heather. I thought I had registered here and at Writer Interrupted at the same time, but alas, I 'uz confyoozed.