R.J. Conte's Blog, page 14
September 2, 2017
Clean Indie Strong Author Award!!!
August 18, 2017
Do you have a FACE?
When it’s 2 AM and your brain is shot because you were up to 4 AM last night transferring files onto your new laptop, and you’re still busy doing it tonight and you’re sooooo done…
You get weird thoughts.
There was a line in a George MacDonald book I was reading called “The Fisherman’s Lady” that is sitting deep inside of me and making me think.
In it, the character of the blind bagpiper is this really quirky old man. He’s been blind his whole life. He adores his family but hates his enemies....
August 17, 2017
Clean Romance, Infertility, and Marriage Advice from Melanie D. Snitker!
[image error]Melanie D. Snitker is a sweet author friend of mine from Texas. She writes stories with a heart – an emphasis on a deep love for each character, and a romance to go with it! I’d like to think that if you enjoy my novels, you’d enjoy hers. 
August 11, 2017
The First Three Chapters of “The End of the Dream”
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Chapter One
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He stood at the top of two large rocks by the river. His back was to me, straight and slim, his stance wide, hair flipping freely in the slight breeze. The soft bubbling over the expanse of boulders lay at his feet.
Something made my heartrate speed up, and I first thought it was fear. Why was he alone staring at the river like that? Was he contemplating something drastic? But his gaze was up into the sky, his head held high, and his shoulders broad. He could not be suicidal....
August 7, 2017
My Sister’s New Food Blog!
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July 31, 2017
Realm Makers 2017 Teaser!
[image error]Am home from my very first and very amazing #RealmMakers2017 writing conference! I got to know Ted Dekker and his wife personally through bringing my baby (We’re friends on Facebook now!) shared a moment over issue-driven fiction with Mary Weber and Jim Rubart, pitched “Heartsick” to two agents (with interest from Seymour Agency on my wip “The End of the Dream,” and met and got to know wonderful people as well as sat in marketing tracks and fought in a NERF war! Have SO MUCH to share with you...
July 24, 2017
Writing, Fighting Trafficking, Addison’s Disease, and Kimberly Rae!
This week I’m heading to Realm Makers! It’s a Christian, speculative fiction, writing convention that is being held, this year, in Reno, Nevada! I’m taking the five month old, and will be gone from Wednesday – Sunday, so I’d appreciate your prayers! Prayers for good health, good energy, good fellowship, good learning, and a God-glorifying attitude would be much appreciated. ❤ Secretly, I’m super nervous!
Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to reach out to other authors who are similar to me – sa...
June 28, 2017
The Boy Who is Forced to Save the World
I’m so excited to announce that I have the most amazing privilege of being a part of The Fellowship of Fantasy‘s second anthology! Last year they did one on “Fantastic Creatures,” and this year on fantasy heroes!
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I have written a short story about an eleven-year-old telepathic and telekinetic genius named Gemini (or “Gem”), who was born to be the next “Omnicron” (think Avatar, the Last Airbender in a way) to use his mental abilities to hold the planet together during the next core earthquak...
The Boy Who Saved the World
I’m so excited to announce that I have the most amazing privilege of being a part of The Fellowship of Fantasy‘s second anthology! Last year they did one on “Fantastic Creatures,” and this year on fantasy heroes!
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I have written a short story about an eleven-year-old telepathic and telekinetic genius named Gemini (or “Gem”), who was born to be the next “Omnicron” (think Avatar, the Last Airbender in a way) to use his mental abilities to hold the planet together during the next core earthquak...
June 4, 2017
Reasons My Children Get Out of Bed at Night
I have been keeping track of their excuses for a solid year now – writing them down and chuckling insanely to myself at yet another doozy. You have to laugh or you’d cry, right?
So here are a few of my favorites:
The list of why my children get out of bed at night..
My feet fell asleep.
Where’s my car?
Isn’t this stuffed animal cute?Is this doll mine or my sister’s?
My eye is really itchy.
I bumped my ear walking around my room.My bottom itches.
My legs fell asleep.
I want to change my doll...
