Author Archives: Jeff

Gerald Lund on Writing

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

Author Gerald Lund has to rank up there as one of my all-time, favorite authors. He published his first book in 1971, a non-fiction book titled The Coming of the Lord. However, he took the LDS publishing world by storm … Continue reading →

Writing

Warriors Over the Wasatch

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

I know it has been a while since my last post. Life gets busy sometimes. I have lots of things I want to blog about, but they’ll just have to stay in queue until I get to them. With the … Continue reading →

family, Reviews

Thanksgiving Point 2012 Half Marathon Wrap-up

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

This past Saturday, I ran the Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon. Not the first race I have run and certainly not the last. Not the best time I finished, but I did have a somewhat valid excuse. At any rate, it … Continue reading →

Races

Nora Roberts and other updates

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

I added Nora Roberts to the Author Therapy page. The thing I love about her is that she was a stay-at-home mother who found a love for writing and eventually success. This week I also added some links to the … Continue reading →

Writing

Happy Easter

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

My daughter came home from college a week ago and saw that I was reading The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Actually, it was her book — she had received it as a Christmas present the year before. Having already … Continue reading →

Top 5 Lists

Top 5 Sports Movies

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Jeff 1 Comment

I have been thinking about this one for a while, and it is tough to narrow it down to just five. There are some great sports movies out there, and this list has changed slightly over the last few years … Continue reading →

Top 5 Lists

Famous First Lines Quiz Answers

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

Here are the answers to the quiz I posted last week about the first lines of famous books, or famous first lines that are just incredible.  1. “It was a dark and stormy night.”           (Y) Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul … Continue reading →

Writing

First Lines Quiz

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

Canadian author Crawford Kilian is attributed with saying: “The first line of a novel is like the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth: everything else follows from it.” Many authors (and readers) know that the first line of a novel is … Continue reading →

Writing

The Importance of Learning

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Jeff Leave a comment

OK. I have been a little busy this past couple of weeks preparing a talk for Sacrament Meeting. I gave the talk today, and it went well enough I guess. Now I need to catch up on my blog (I … Continue reading →

Top 5 Lists

Graditude

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jeff 1 Comment

I have kind of been putting off entering a new blog the past two weeks and not just because I have been trying to do more writing on my latest book (I’ve written about 5,000 words the past two weeks … Continue reading →

Writing