Good Stuff Happening in 2011!

I am going to try to keep the Monday through Friday blog info-mercial free, and keep the plugs to Saturday. That said, I've got a lot of stuff going on right now and would love for you to know more about all of it. Here's what's coming up in 2011:

1. The Storyline Conference. If you attend one conference this year, come see us in Portland. The Storyline Conference was a smash hit last year and this year we are going to make it even better. The conference was inspiring to hundreds, and this year it will be inspiring to you. Register you and your cool friends here.

Storyline Conference from shieldsfilms.com on Vimeo.

2. The Paperback to A Million Miles in a Thousand Years comes out next month. If you've been wanting to read it but don't want to spend the hard-back dough, you've got your shot in a couple weeks. Buy one or a case or a truck load! They're on the cheap, baby!

3. Blue Like Jazz the movie will hit theaters this fall. We are still a long way off, and we will certainly ramp up promotion leading up to the release, but stay tuned to this blog to find out more. It's going to be great, and I think you'll like it, unless you are very sensitive, in which case you won't like it at all. But you're not sensitive, so you'll like it. Chances are I'll be coming to a town near you to screen the film. Lucy, my dog, will be driving an R.V. around America and I will be riding shotgun. We will be showing the film to anybody who will watch it, nursing homes, insane asylums, hippie communes, you name it, maybe even your house, unless you are sensitive, in which case we will show it on your house, like on your garage door when you aren't home.

4. Much later in the year, if all goes well, I will be releasing a book called "The Way of a Creator." The book is in process now, and I'm working my insanely fast fingers off on it. It's about becoming a person who speaks something into nothing, makes things happen, changes reality for themselves and for others. It's also a little provocative, because I talk about how evangelical church culture breeds a community of fear, which makes people consumers rather than creators. Start firing up the torches, haters!

It's going to be a great year. Looking forward to seeing you guys at one of the screenings, or at Storyline!