by Jack Cavanaugh | Apr 16, 2012 | Strength For The Quest
You’ve had those mornings, haven’t you? When the engine doesn’t rev. The coffee doesn’t perk. The brain cells don’t spark. And the hamster refuses to climb onto the wheel. Why are so many of those days Monday? I keep signs and quotes...
by Jack Cavanaugh | Apr 13, 2012 | Short Stories
A FEW YEARS AGO I participated in a writing exercise with some friends, just for fun. Each of us was given the following outline with instructions to write a scene in our given genre. Mine was historical. Here's what we were given— A man walks into a room...
by Jack Cavanaugh | Apr 11, 2012 | Behind The Pages
THE PURITANS HAS BEEN by far my bestselling novel. Although I wrote it nearly twenty years ago, I still remember the quote that proved to be the inspiration for the novel’s plot— Drew Morgan dreamed of becoming a world-renowned knight, long after the days of...
by Jack Cavanaugh | Apr 9, 2012 | Strength For The Quest
I’m sure the author wouldn’t want to hear this, but for me the most memorable part of his book was a footnote— The footnote told how, in the 1970s, journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was interviewing Anatoly Kuznetsov, a Russian writer who had defected to England from the...
by Jack Cavanaugh | Apr 6, 2012 | Blog Posts
IF CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING has a patron saint, it is probably C.S. Lewis. The man is revered for both his non-fiction writing and his fiction. His Mere Christianity has been read by millions of devotional readers; his Chronicles of Narnia has thrilled millions of fiction...
