Ray's Blog: December 2011

Three Thoughts For Christmas & The New Year

Have you ever found that sometimes, various, seemingly disparate, things have come together and you've heard a still small voice? Some truth about life that's been revealed to you? Something that's previously eluded you, but has now come into sharp focus?

It can happen, as I discovered, even in the busyness...

Posted at 18:26pm on 19th December 2011

Online Book Club - Showing Of Love By Julian Of Norwich - Discussion Summary

Showing of Love, a book written by Julian of Norwich in the 15th Century, is not an easy read! OK. I admit it. Mea culpa. With much laughter, when nine of us met last week for Book Club, I was roundly - but affectionately - condemned for having chosen the...

Posted at 15:46pm on 6th December 2011

Online Book Club - Showing Of Love By Julian Of Norwich - Questions

The questions below were compiled by members of the real-time Book Club I lead at church.

A member of the clergy, retired through mental ill health, asked on the Association of Christian Writers' Facebook wall today whether we should be writing to be published, and pointed out that much of Julian's...

Posted at 18:44pm on 4th December 2011

The Reality Of Being An Author: Marketing

Last month, I wrote about a reader of my website, Skye, who had written to me for advice about her first self-published novel. Her initial question was simply one of discouragement. I say "simply", but there's nothing simple about the sense of isolation one can feel as an author. And...

Posted at 08:15am on 3rd December 2011