by Jason Joyner | Jun 13, 2007 | Blog, CFBA, fiction
OK, usually you won’t find any posts about country music here (shudder), but this book looks like it has an interesting premise. Here’s the CFBA take on Diva NashVegas:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rachel is the author of many books. Her current release, Diva NashVegas is the second in a series which began with
Lost in NashVegas. She is also a
Blogger and a CFBA member! She lives in Florida with her husband. Visit her great
profile and learn more.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Even if you are not a lover of country music, you can enjoy this fun look at the Nashville entertainment industry.
What do you do when the past you’ve been skirting shows up at your door with cameras rolling?
Aubrey James ruled the charts as the queen of country for over a decade. She’d rocketed to fame in the shadow of her parents’ death-both of them pioneers in Gospel music. But while her public life, high profile romances, and fights with Music Row execs made for juicy tabloid headlines, the real and private Aubrey has remained a media mystery.
When a former band member betrays Aubrey’s trust and sells an “exclusive” to a tabloid, the star knows she must go public with her story. But Aubrey’s private world is rocked when the Inside NashVegas interviewer is someone from her past-someone she’d hoped to forget.
All the moxie in the world won’t let this Diva run any longer.
“Hauck once again takes us into the country music world, this time through the experiences of mega-star Aubrey James. Aubrey’s life journey is filled with flaws, as well as a great deal of joy, and real life locales makes this highly original story authentic. The extra tidbits – from Aubrey’s liner notes to quotes from the “media” at the beginning of the chapters – add extra sparkle to the plot.”
– 4 Stars, Melissa Parcel, Romantic Times Book Club
by Jason Joyner | Jun 13, 2007 | Blog, CFBA, fiction
OK, usually you won’t find any posts about country music here (shudder), but this book looks like it has an interesting premise. Here’s the CFBA take on Diva NashVegas:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rachel is the author of many books. Her current release, Diva NashVegas is the second in a series which began with
Lost in NashVegas. She is also a
Blogger and a CFBA member! She lives in Florida with her husband. Visit her great
profile and learn more.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Even if you are not a lover of country music, you can enjoy this fun look at the Nashville entertainment industry.
What do you do when the past you’ve been skirting shows up at your door with cameras rolling?
Aubrey James ruled the charts as the queen of country for over a decade. She’d rocketed to fame in the shadow of her parents’ death-both of them pioneers in Gospel music. But while her public life, high profile romances, and fights with Music Row execs made for juicy tabloid headlines, the real and private Aubrey has remained a media mystery.
When a former band member betrays Aubrey’s trust and sells an “exclusive” to a tabloid, the star knows she must go public with her story. But Aubrey’s private world is rocked when the Inside NashVegas interviewer is someone from her past-someone she’d hoped to forget.
All the moxie in the world won’t let this Diva run any longer.
“Hauck once again takes us into the country music world, this time through the experiences of mega-star Aubrey James. Aubrey’s life journey is filled with flaws, as well as a great deal of joy, and real life locales makes this highly original story authentic. The extra tidbits – from Aubrey’s liner notes to quotes from the “media” at the beginning of the chapters – add extra sparkle to the plot.”
– 4 Stars, Melissa Parcel, Romantic Times Book Club
by Jason Joyner | Jun 11, 2007 | Blog, fiction, writing craft
So I got the writing bug about 2 1/2 years ago. I hadn’t done any creative writing for years, but I had started penning a few short stories a few months prior. Then I got the brilliant idea that I could write a novel! I started with a simple mental picture/sequence, and the story unfolded itself pretty quickly from there.
I enjoyed creative writing in school, but I am not the type to just jump into something. I started looking into books and searched the internet for writing sites. Soon I had found Faith in Fiction and that became my portal into a lot of other contacts about writing (for instance, with all the writers there starting blogs, I finally decided to check this world out).
Still, when I started I thought that I could have a serviceable book done in a year at the most. Heh, heh, heh. Silly n00b.
Over the weekend I managed to finish chapter six. All told, I have about 12-15,000 words and 26-28 pages down on my WIP (work in progress for the uninitiated). My goal is around 80-90,000 words. I guess I’m about around 1/6th there.
In 2 1/2 years I have spent reading and studying the craft of writing. I’ve done a lot of reading in that time. I may not be an expert, but I think I have a better understanding of what it takes to write a good book. Also, I have gained an appreciation of the timeframe it can take to become published.
Thankfully I’m not alone in starting this endeavor thinking it isn’t all that big a deal. I hear many others say that they didn’t realize how long it can take to get published. I started checking out Randy Ingermanson’s blog at Advanced Fiction Writing, and he has shared the time frame it took him to get published.
10 years.
He then shares about a friend who took 26 years to get published. I don’t know about you, but I admire that persistence. Brandilyn Collins has shared about her 7 year (approx) journey to publishing fiction as well, and there are many other stories like that. I had come to the conclusion quite a while ago that this wouldn’t be a quick, wham-bam process. Especially since I deal with working full-time, busy kids, keeping up with my loving wife, and ministry at my local church. Oh, and blogging!
Anymore any progress is a good thing. Maybe if I share it here, I’ll have accountability and encouragement. I know Matt’s updates at Burning Hearts Revolution has inspired me to get BOC (butt in chair). I can’t seem to let this bug go, so I pray for grace to keep at this project. Keeps me off the streets I suppose (except the time I test-drove a mo-ped just to understand a tiny plot point of a character…)
Randy has more advice for the aspiring writer – he gives you permission to be bad. Guess you’ll have to read that one for yourself to get it!
by Jason Joyner | Jun 11, 2007 | Blog, fiction, writing craft
So I got the writing bug about 2 1/2 years ago. I hadn’t done any creative writing for years, but I had started penning a few short stories a few months prior. Then I got the brilliant idea that I could write a novel! I started with a simple mental picture/sequence, and the story unfolded itself pretty quickly from there.
I enjoyed creative writing in school, but I am not the type to just jump into something. I started looking into books and searched the internet for writing sites. Soon I had found Faith in Fiction and that became my portal into a lot of other contacts about writing (for instance, with all the writers there starting blogs, I finally decided to check this world out).
Still, when I started I thought that I could have a serviceable book done in a year at the most. Heh, heh, heh. Silly n00b.
Over the weekend I managed to finish chapter six. All told, I have about 12-15,000 words and 26-28 pages down on my WIP (work in progress for the uninitiated). My goal is around 80-90,000 words. I guess I’m about around 1/6th there.
In 2 1/2 years I have spent reading and studying the craft of writing. I’ve done a lot of reading in that time. I may not be an expert, but I think I have a better understanding of what it takes to write a good book. Also, I have gained an appreciation of the timeframe it can take to become published.
Thankfully I’m not alone in starting this endeavor thinking it isn’t all that big a deal. I hear many others say that they didn’t realize how long it can take to get published. I started checking out Randy Ingermanson’s blog at Advanced Fiction Writing, and he has shared the time frame it took him to get published.
10 years.
He then shares about a friend who took 26 years to get published. I don’t know about you, but I admire that persistence. Brandilyn Collins has shared about her 7 year (approx) journey to publishing fiction as well, and there are many other stories like that. I had come to the conclusion quite a while ago that this wouldn’t be a quick, wham-bam process. Especially since I deal with working full-time, busy kids, keeping up with my loving wife, and ministry at my local church. Oh, and blogging!
Anymore any progress is a good thing. Maybe if I share it here, I’ll have accountability and encouragement. I know Matt’s updates at Burning Hearts Revolution has inspired me to get BOC (butt in chair). I can’t seem to let this bug go, so I pray for grace to keep at this project. Keeps me off the streets I suppose (except the time I test-drove a mo-ped just to understand a tiny plot point of a character…)
Randy has more advice for the aspiring writer – he gives you permission to be bad. Guess you’ll have to read that one for yourself to get it!
by Jason Joyner | Jun 11, 2007 | Biblical worldview, Blog, social justice
If anyone didn’t know the background philosophy (utilitarianism) of Jack Kevorkian, this article will be most informative.
Hat tip to The Point.
