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Until now I’ve written fiction (Like my “Backlash” series and the unpublished “Thine Is the Kingdom”), but I am taking a nonfiction book to the Oregon Christian Writer’s conference in two weeks, titled “Collision or...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 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...