So, here we are again, another day another blog. This has been both easier and harder than I thought it would be. Harder because I was sick for a few days and didn't write anything, if I had this would be blog 9 and tomorrow I would be hitting double digits, instead at my current pace, barring any sickness or other hullabaloo, I will not hit double digits till Sunday. On the other hand it has been easier because by and large when I do sit down to type, something ends up happening, fingers touch keys and words are formed and they combine into sentences, which are usually coherent, so that is working out for me.
Again I come to you friends with thoughts on my mind, some still need editing so they will show up at some point down the road, others are still percolating, i.e. they are so vague they aren't even in editing yet. But the one that is on the tip of my brain is whether or not to write a book.
You see, while glancing across my Facebook page today I noticed a message that said 'you should like _____' I saw that the person behind _____ was also the person behind another _____ that I follow so I decided to give it a once over. Turns out it was a new publishing house that falls directly along my views and beliefs theologically speaking, i.e. they believe in Jesus, but don't feel the need to ram him down anyone's throats. I thought, 'Cool, maybe I will have to check out some of their offerings.' And that would be that, except I then saw an article on their front page that talked about author submissions. For the heck of it I decided to click on that, which led me to the realization that they accept book proposals from anyone who wants to send them one, which is pretty neat, because in this day and age most publishing houses expect you to have a agent in order to submit anything to them, or they just find you somewhere out in the blogosphere and snatch you themselves. [I'm here if you're out there, call me, we'll do lunch.]
The article went on further to say that you could simply send them a proposal through their website and that they would respond to each and every submission. Now, I do consider myself somewhat of a writer, in fact when Mary and I first got married, and I lost my 'about to be career in conference and performance events' I tried to get into a Masters program in writing at Ball State, obviously it didn't happen, but there has always been a part of me that wants to write. Which is one of the reasons that I started this blog, and one of the reasons I started this particular Lenten discipline. In other words, submitting a proposal to this publishing house is very appealing to me.
Which brings us to my next conundrum, what exactly would I write a book about? Being that it is a religious publishing house it obviously fences me into a particular genre, no great sci-fi novel or murder mystery, no Harry Potter sequel or Nightwing stand alone novel, or book of poetry or comedy submissions. No, it would have to be about God, Jesus, the church, so forth and so on, which as a Pastor and someone with a Masters degree in the subject I am not exactly unqualified to write, but still, what exactly do I have to add to the subject, I mean, have you been to a Christian bookstore recently? There are a lot of books there, and while I feel most of those books should be incinerated, or at least banned from church reading lists, there are still a lot of them, written by people with more degrees, more experience, and more congregants than me.
So, here I am, dreaming and wondering, wondering and dreaming, should I write a book? What would I write about? How many copies would it sell? Do you think it is too early to start calling myself 'the next, next Billy Graham'?
Anyway, until tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel.
Peace and Love,
Pastor K
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