[Guest Post: May Calim] Balancing Children and Career
As working moms, it’s never easy juggling time between our children and work. But what is it like choosing our children first? Significantly, there are three essential factors to consider.
[Jessica Sly] It’s Time to Try Something New
What’s something you’ve always wanted to try but haven’t? Maybe it’s learning a new language. Maybe it’s getting up on those tricky water skis. Or maybe it’s writing the novel that’s been brewing within you. For me, it was learning the violin. My small-town school didn’t have an orchestra, so the clarinet and piano were…
[Susan Kimmel Wright] Tomato Season
“They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.” (Psalm 92:14 NIV) Late last spring, like a lot of other people during the pandemic, I experimented with container gardening. Conditions were far from ideal when I took the last, wrinkled grape tomato from the basket and just stuck it in…
[Bradley Caffee] The Clarity of the Diminished Self
I never wanted to be a writer. The written word was for people whose brains operated differently than mine. Much of college was dodging professors who assigned papers in favor of those who leaned on exams. Grad school was an exercise in getting papers finished as efficiently and quickly as possible. Being an analytical thinker…
[Guest Post: Olivia Smit] Seasons of Dirt
My husband and I live in an apartment across from a farmer’s field (it’s one of those situations where the city has inched outwards: parking lots and residential neighbourhoods on one side of the road, farmland on the other). I love looking out the window and seeing open space instead of traffic lights, and the…
[Sara Davison] Go Team!
It’s award season in the Christian literary world. Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with writing contests. Being named a finalist or winner is wonderful for promotion, affirmation, celebrating great writing, and receiving helpful feedback from judges. For those reasons, I do enter a book into one or more contests most years that I have…
MBI Books in the Finals of 2021 Awards
We wanted to take a break from our usual blog posts to highlight some news from our authors. Our authors continue to impress us with their growing lists of awards, both with their MBI books and those not published with us. (You can see the list of their MBI awards here.) This year, we have…
[Alyssa Roat] Hold Fast to Dreams
I started my debut novel, Wraithwood, at sixteen. I finished the first draft at seventeen and brought that unpolished manuscript with me to college. I was pursuing a degree in Professional Writing. I’d been promised I’d be published within my first semester. I knew other graduates had gotten their books published in college. This was…
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