A comprehensive guide that will assist many writers in navigating the publishing landscape.
Editors Dinkins and Washington present a collection of essays for Christian writers of color that will help aspiring authors of all backgrounds.
The editors gather insights from a well-rounded group of industry professionals in this volume. Writers and writing teachers offer articles on craftsmanship; one of Washington’s own contributions is an essay on “sensory details and figurative language.” Others give tips on editing and revision, as in editor and author Lisa A. Crayton’s presentation of “five key revision strategies.” But the most useful aspects of this book are the perspectives it provides from editors, agents, and publishers. Bruce R. Barbour, the founder of the Literary Management Group and a former Random House executive, includes a template for book proposals, explains when a writer needs a literary agent, and lists the differences between traditional publishers and other options. Agustin Agency founder Lluvia Agustin covers legal issues and identifies questions to consider before signing contracts. Despite these broadly useful tips, Dinkins and Washington don’t forget their primary audience; they also provide articles with specific professional insights for Christian writers from diverse backgrounds. Journalist and devotional writer Nancy Gavilanes, for example, explains “3 Keys to Writing Devotional Articles,” and Xochitl Dixon, a disabled Mexican contributor to the Christian publication Our Daily Bread, considers “The Ministry of Magazine Writing.” Other contributors speak explicitly to concerns that writers of color share, such as Christy Award Winner Patricia Raybon, a Black mystery fiction writer and teacher who explains how she cultivates writers’ voices in the classroom, and Terry M. Wildman, a pastor and lead translator/project manager for the First Nations Version of the Bible, who describes the importance of including familiar cultural references in Bible translations.
A comprehensive guide that will assist many writers in navigating the publishing landscape.Pub Date: Sept. 29, 2026
ISBN: 978-1948732000
Page Count: 406
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: yesterday
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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