How to Write Good Catholic Fiction
Part 1: Let Your Faith Be a Leaven In the Catholic world, there is an infinite supply of non-fiction reading. Any Catholic subject that has ever been conceived has got a book written about it. The Inquisition, Mary’s Perpetual Virginity , whether or not Adam and Eve had belly buttons; there’s a book on all…
How to Get Your Manuscript Published Part 4
Be a Celebrity Being a celebrity is another way to get your manuscript easily published. And becoming a celebrity has become easier than it ever has been in the past. There are three categories of celebrity: The Hero – This is the most difficult celebrity status to acquire. It comes about after one does something…
The Church Christmas Tree
Just in time for the 2020 Holiday Season: We are pleased to announce the arrival of our newest labor of love, The Church Christmas Tree by DL Sayles. From the back of the book: “When you say you want a perfect Christmas, what is it you are envisioning exactly?” Dottie thought it over. “I’m not…
How to Easily get Your Manuscript Published Part 3
Be a Politician at the National Level with Possible Presidential Aspirations The third in a series on how to easily get a book published. Congratulations! You’ve done most of your hard work already just by getting elected or appointed to a national office. This gets you an automatic publishing deal. I’m not sure why, when…
How to Easily Get Your Manuscript Published Part 2:
Be the Spouse or Child of an Incredibly Famous and Lucrative Author The second in a series on how to easily get a book published. Quite possibly the only easier way to get a book published than being the child of a publisher would be to be a spouse or child of an incredibly famous…
How to Easily Get Your Manuscript Published Part 1:
Be a Child of a Publisher The first in a series on how to easily get a book published. Probably one of the easiest ways to get a book published is to be the child of the publisher at a major publishing house. You just need to prey on the strong urge of a parent…
An Introduction
A faithful Catholic fiction writer might find themselves stuck in a no man’s land in the publishing world. Theirs is a worldview not considered appealing to a mass enough market for the big mainstream publishers. Most Catholic publishers don’t regularly publish fiction. Flannery O’Connor said, “Success means being heard and don’t stand there and tell…
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