Returning
It's been a while since I've blogged. Up until about a year ago, if I had heard or read that statement, coming from someone else, I probably would have responded with something like, "That's good news! I guess the fiber worked."

But blogging is, of course, something almost entirely different. Or, if it does have to do with gastro-intestinal matters, they are gastro-intestinal matters of the "Reader's Digest" variety.

Anyway, what brought me back is that someone finally wrote to me at the website. His name is Brad Whittington and he's the author of a great new book called "Welcome to Fred". I'm not going to review it right now--that will come later--but I recommend you at least go to www.fredtexas.com and check out the first chapter.

And while I'm recommending that you check out new things . . . "Saving Time", the sequel to last year's excellent "First Time" is due out any day now. Watch the front page of Best Christian Fiction (http://bestfiction.tripod.com) for details, or go straight to the horse's mouth at www.tuttles.net.

We also get word that Robert Calvert, author the wonderful novel "When Vapors Vanish" (also reviewed on BCF) is hard at work on a new novel. Keep watching for more word on that.

Good writing is out there. Sometimes you just have to get off the beaten path to find it.