Author Interview: Leigh Bale (part five) The Importance of a Critique Group

Thank you for joining us for our fifth and final installment of our conversation with Leigh Bale, award-winning inspirational novelist. Click here to read parts one, two, three, and four. Leigh, you’ve mentioned the importance of having a critique group. How does your group influence your writing? My current critique partners are invaluable for helping make my books more marketable. One of my critique partners has been a dear friend of mine for over fifteen years. We knew each other before we were published, back when we were “wannabes” struggling to write the best possible book in the world. Now, … Continue reading

A Little Black Marker — It’s Magic!

Every so often I’ll pick up a book that I think is just wonderful. It has fantastic characters, it’s funny, the mystery is well written, and then I turn the page, and somebody is doing something they really should not be doing, and I blush and feel guilty, even though I didn’t know it was there. Dang! (That’s how a Mormon swears.) Why did the author have to mess up a great story with that one paragraph? Well, what do you do in a case like that? We recently talked about building a library in your home. You want to … Continue reading