Publishing Woes
Do publishers get a bad rap? Dave is blogging about the tensions that underlie the Christian publishing project, Mick Silva has been blogging about acquisitions to the glory of God, and Brandilyn...
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Mark, Exactly. Still artists like Terry Kincaid are poo-pooed by ' serious artists' . I think he laughs all the way to the bank. Carpenters sometimes put out mass work when they would love to be...
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Well, ya know how loves Thomas Kincaide -- the Amish. They have TK everything because the scenery resonates with them.So, you never know who's gonna like your stuff and how it will impact them.I know...
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Perhaps, just perhaps, we will begin to see more Christian writing published because there is now more than one voice crying in the wilderness. I started writing because I felt that I couldn't find...
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Quote:We don't sneer at the folks who make the furniture in our houses or the cars in our driveways for "selling out" and manufacturing for the market. In one sense, chairs and cars are just products,...
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wait, wait,wait didn't some guy just pay 640,000 for a seventy five escort (European model ford granada) because it was the pope's? I don't know about cars not reflecting Christan values. If you look...
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Mark,Thanks for the license to do what I do without cringing.I have neither the education or the savvy to write literary works of art, although I can read (most of) them and love the genius involved....
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Quote:Thanks for the license to do what I do without cringing.You don't need my permission! But you're welcome anyway. Markwww.jmarkbertrand.comMy NaNoWriMo ProfileRequired Reading:"Holy Sonnet" - FiF...
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I think the furniture example gets right to the very problem. We don't say the furniture maker sold out because we excpect our chairs to be useful and serve a purpose. We reserve our nasty comments...
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Good points, MW. But I think the people who think the best writing is that awkwardly uncomfortable chair forget about the medium they have chosen--words--and the purpose of words: communication.I had...
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I agree we're supposed to be communicators, first of all.Hanging out with my parents teh artists, I've seen my share of Incomprehensible Art. My mom does abstracts but they are not imcomprehensible,...
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That's an interesting point about the sunset, Becky. I think I remember talking about this with Mark before and saying some people like living in the desert and some in the forest, though. We do have...
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I guess I should clarify--I think there is such a thing as objective beauty just no such thing as objective humans. Sally Apokedakparaklesis.comchildren's publishing blog
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Objective beauty but not objective humans. Very interesting way of saying it.I guess that's so--more because an individual can be blind to the beauty. I don't care for opera, for example. The bottom...
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