Author Apprentice: LDStorymakers

As has become my tradition, this is my 3rd annual LDS Storymaker-faux-reality-show casting. This time, we’re going with being able to tell self-employed authors “You’re fired!” (Shoot, I was tweeted that once during the conference, actually.) In thinking of this post, I realized, I don’t want Donald Trump to be the one that gets to [...]

The Amazing Race: LDS Authors

Guess what, it’s time for fake-reality-show-with-LDS-Authors! Why? Because I did this last year after Storymakers. And you know what, it’s just a fun tradition. First: A little about the Emmy winning Amazing Race. Teams of 2 (usually 11-12 of them) race around the world solving clues and arriving at pit stops with mandatory 12 hours [...]

LDS Storymakers Review

Holy crap on a cracker! Storymakers this was awesomesauce. I can’t even begin to explain how awesome it was. But I’m gonna try. First, the M.C. was Sarah Eden. At one point, I was gonna tweet “my cheeks are hurting”. Seriously, I don’t know who they’ll get next year that could even attempt to get [...]

LTUE and Awesomesauce

Note: My blogroll will be updated one day. It’s a short-term accomplish-able goal of mine. So, let me rehash. LTUE is a 3-day symposium (high-class word for conference, in my opinion). So, last Thursday, I woke up got ready for work and said “I feel like crap right now.” My wonderful wife said “You’re not [...]

Storymakers Contest

Almost two months ago, I registered for LDS Storymakers, which will be held May 6-7. Not sure if I’m doing bootcamp this year on May 5th. I want to. Just not sure it’s gonna happen. Well, there’s this awesome contest here that I would like to win. Why? Did you read it? If not, I’m [...]

The Book Academy Review

Yeah, like I was actually going to write about something else today. Gees! Where do I start? The beginning, duh! Before registration I got to see Don Carey, who flew in from Texas for the conference. He was kind enough to share ‘contraband’ Dr. Pepper. It’s ‘contraband’ because of the fact that it’s bottled by [...]

Behave Yourself

So, I’m going to pretend that I’m like Dear Abby or something and offer advice (cause I’m credible, you know.) So since I’m already pretending, let’s pretend that I got a letter that says something like this: Dear T.J., I am attending The UVU Book Academy next week and was wondering if you could offer [...]

Responses to LUW Spring WOrkshop

(LUW means League of Utah Writers) So, as treasurer for the League of Utah Writers – Utah Valley Chapter I should have had very little to do with the Spring Workshop. Well, that’s partially true. I had very little to do because I joined LUW at the end of March. But no, I had some [...]