Author Magazine has posted an interview with Nate, which should be quite interesting to aspiring writers. And they put a post up here about it.
Amoretti
As you may know, my daughter Bekah has a clothing line with her business Amoretti, which you can take a look at over here. With me so far? The Merkles have been in England for the last three years, but they are now back home, and yay for that. In related news, they now have …
Tilt a Whirl Trailer
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl trailer from Gorilla Poet Productions on Vimeo.
A Few More Blurbs
A few more YouTube blurbs for the Desiring God conference are now up. You can find them here.
Authority and Story Telling
Nate had a really good interview hosted by Kevin Swanson here. The question asked and answered is “can Christians write interesting stories?” There is a lot of good stuff in this interview.
Blue Ice Is . . .
. . . a collection of short stories. Some really fun stuff here. I really enjoy books that hold my interest when dealing with a subject I am not really interested in. I have never been to a “for real” hockey game, and have never seen more than a few seconds of a game on television. …
Black Douglas
The Desiring God folks have some video clips up promoting their national conference, and you can look at them here. The first is John Piper explaining, when he first had the thought of inviting me, why he didn’t lie down with a cold compress on his forehead until the feeling went away. In the second …
A Colporter’s Version
This will be dated rather quickly, I suppose, but as I write these words, Nate’s Tilt-a-Whirl is ranked 1,247 at Amazon. If you get over there now for a little Christmas shopping, you can help push it into three digits. And when that happens, with certain potential shoppers now abed . . . Give me …
Look at a Walnut
I had read Notes from the Tilt a Whirl before in its various manifestations. But when it arrived in its final printed form, I was happy to sit down and go through it again, left to right. What a good book this is. The conceit for the book is that the solar system is a …
Deee Fence
My brother Gordon is the scientist of the family (known to us as the “black sheep”), and you might be interested in a couple of recent articles he wrote for Answers magazine. Those articles are here and here.