by Gary Ivey | Aug 24, 2019 | Current Posts
I returned from Oregon Christian Writers Conference a week ago and have had a little time to digest it, so I thought I would jot a few takeaways down here. I have said it was like “drinking from a fire hose” in that it was wall-to-wall activity and...
by Gary Ivey | Aug 3, 2019 | Current Posts
Several years ago I had a period of writing screenplays, before I started writing books. My decision to go to a writer’s conference caused me to dust off a couple of them to take in case anyone cared to see them. Here’s what I’m taking (both titles...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 29, 2019 | Current Posts
Until now I’ve written fiction (Like my “Backlash” series and the unpublished “Thine Is the Kingdom”), but I am taking a nonfiction book to the Oregon Christian Writer’s conference in two weeks, titled “Collision or...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 19, 2019 | Current Posts
Update: This synopsis was written in 2019 before I revamped the series as “Age of the Kingdom” and released the first book Quest for a King, available now. A catastrophic battle sets in motion events that lead to Israel’s first monarchy. Eldad, a young...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 19, 2019 | Writing
Update: This synopsis was written in 2019 before I revamped the series as “Age of the Kingdom” and released the first book Quest for a King, available now. Having finished two novels in the Backlash series, I’m hoping to soon release Thine Is...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 13, 2019 | Current Posts
I’m currently making plans to attend my first writers conference: the Oregon Christian Writers Conference in Portland. I had planned to attend the annual conference of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) several years ago, but a work emergency...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 30, 2019 | Current Posts
“Unplanned,” the movie based on the book by Abby Johnson, a former clinic director for Planned Parenthood, debuted at number four in nationwide box office receipts in spite of being on just a little over 1,000 screens compared to plus-or-minus 4,000...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 22, 2019 | Current Events, Current Posts, Loony Lefties, Politics
A couple of days ago, I heard that, after Amazon decided not to put its east coast headquarters in Long Island City, New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoiced at the “victory” and remarked that the $3 billion New York would have “spent”...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 2, 2019 | Current Posts
So the Democrat governor of Virginia got caught this week having a yearbook photo of him (he says not him) in black face with another grad student in full KKK costume. What does CNN do? They display his name with “(R)” after it. How do you make a mistake...