Tabitha

“The world is suited to human enjoyment—”out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sign”—in anticipation of human pleasure, which the Lord presumably shares. This is an extremely elegant detail. The beauty of the trees is noted before the fact that they yield food. It is a rich goodness that the Lord intended

Hans Boersma writes that radically open communion invites the devil to the Table, but we with our own hubris are enough to cause problems. After all, wasn’t it pride that led Lucifer to fall from Heaven in the first place?

“Connecting with the right reader really does happen. When the right piece meets the right person, a light flicks on. We are all working hard to find a moment when the page suddenly illuminates. What can you do to give that moment to editors? How can you light up their day, their hour, with writing that feels as if it were written especially for

“I try to think of promotion as an extension of writing rather than as something that comes after the writing is finished. Readings, interviews, reviews, and interactions with readers are ways of continuing to revise the meaning of your writing, even after its publication. Try to retain the creative spirit that inspired your writing in the first