Kimberly is a young adult convert to the Catholic faith. Her journey of faith is incorporated into her writing in which she mostly does for children. She cherishes her writing and podcasting and seeks to distribute it to as many people as possible. She is totally open and honest about her life, what she is doing and is going to. She has quite a lot to say about writing, being Catholic and the types of stories that are worth paying... Read more
There are so many Catholic writers writing so many Catholics things right now. It’s hard if not improbable to keep up with what everybody is saying about this and that and this other thing. You got to pick and choose who you read. You’re most likely going to pick a Catholic writer that aligns with your particular form of spiritual or political sensibilities. If you do read someone outside your normal parameters of frequent reading material it might be to... Read more
Out of all the Meet the Writer Interviews that have been submitted to me, Laura Fredrickson’s was the most personal and she also had the most to say. I’m not actually referring to just her interview, but with her actual correspondence with me. From the very first email she was friendly, chatty, conversational, warm and personable. She seemed to be someone who you could easily be friends with and sit down and talk about faith, family and fun things. When... Read more
Every Catholic writer in the Meet the Writers series tries to communicate God in their writing. Some express their love of God through philosophical musings. Some express it by creating fantasy worlds that can only be accessed by your imagination. Some take others back in time to a historic period worth fleshing out in a story. Still another Catholic writer makes her personal journey of grief and hope alive in written words. Joseph expresses the truth of God by creating... Read more
All writers have a story within their soul they want to pour out into words. Some take place in another world where the laws of physics don’t apply as they do in our world. Some have advanced technologies that have not been invented in our realm of existence. Some have creatures and beings that that only live in myth and folklore. Some tales are of the distant or recent past where people like us lived out different lives in a... Read more
One of the greatest aspects of writing is the ability to think. Without thinking one cannot ponder, reflect, and contemplate ideas, memories, jokes or other things that combine to make words written on a page for others to read so they can then think about what you wrote. Thinking can also be one of the hardest things to do when writing because it requires focus, recall and concentration. When you’re tired often as I am, it becomes a challenge. Our... Read more
One thing that every writer that has submitted an interview to my Meet the Writer series has in common is that they all love being Catholic and have embraced their talents as a writer and have used it in some capacity. The difference in each writer is their unique take on how to write as a Catholic. Everyone has something different to say about what they all have in common. Reading through Charlotte’s answers was like walking metaphysically in New... Read more
I actually went to school with someone named Mark Baker. It was interesting for me to actually have a writer submit to me an interview with the same name. Mr. Baker has a lot of things to say about writing and the writing process. As long as he has been a writer he has been catholic and found fulfillment doing what he does. He is one of the featured authors in the Catholic Writers Guild anthology Pilgrim Tales. He really... Read more
Lately on social media, it’s hard to scroll very far without seeing a post detailing the latest outrageous thing president Donald J. Trump has said to tick people off. The core of the controversial Trump messages can be summed up as follows. “I’m a great wonderful president and anybody who says anything against my presidency sucks and I will whine about it on Truth Social”. I think it’s a possibility that each day he doesn’t hear his name being branded... Read more
Karen is a unique author as she is also an editor, a trained soprano who has written a vampire novel, a modern telling of a classic fairy tale, a historical novel about Marie Antoinette and has something in common with a rabbit. In the world of writing she is like a red rubber ball or a Gummi bear bouncing here and there and everywhere in the world of writing. If your a writer or a lover of books I think... Read more
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