Published on October 10, 2019
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Sometimes competitors and others test BookLocker.com to see if we really do screen manuscripts that we’re considering for publication. Yes, we absolutely do! We rejected the poetry book written by the dog of an author. That was memorable. There was the…
Published on October 10, 2019
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Can I turn interviews into my own book, or do those pieces belong to the magazine?
Published on October 9, 2019

We were pretty shocked this morning when woke up to find this!!!
Published on October 8, 2019
backstories

I think I was an author beginning about age four but I never put anything down on paper until after retirement. I grew up in the country, which limited my number of friends and social activities. In fact, I only had one friend, Mickey. We were about the same age and our main difference was […]
Published on October 5, 2019

I had retired to bed on the first evening of the weekend class, and was sharply awakened midway through the night by a voice. I was surprised because I am a heavy sleeper and because I was in the bedroom alone. The voice said…
Published on October 5, 2019
backstories

From memoir to “biographical fiction,” how one author shaved a 1,000-page tomb down to an entertaining 318-page story…that wouldn’t attract the attention of government censors.
Published on October 5, 2019
backstories

I live in the Netherlands where there is only one main airport. It is the third busiest in all of Europe. A friend of mine works as a passenger assistant there, and knows that I write screenplays. He approached me one day, around 2014, to tell me his story. He had become aware that some […]
Published on October 5, 2019
backstories

Is it possible to engage issues of morality without descending into political squabbles? We are at a cultural turning point. If current trends continue, I fear that Christianity in the West will reduce to shrinking silos of subculture that will be unable to successfully engage the wider culture.
Published on October 3, 2019

I spent my childhood pretending. As a kid, my playhouse was an elephant that I rode in the jungle, I had a pet monkey who could talk to me telepathically, and my favorite bunny rabbit was in charge of all the other animals in my room, and they all came alive every night…
Published on October 3, 2019
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