by Brock Meier | Sep 15, 2023 | Arts, Books, News, Other
Book launch for The Stone Cutter features special music… The Stone Cutter was, in part, inspired by the haunting and jubilant song “Man of the Tombs,” by the consummate songwriter/singer/guitarist Bob Bennett. Among his many accolades, Bob has...
by Brock Meier | Aug 3, 2023 | Books, News
Countdown to the launch of The Stone Cutter… —A novel of Petra in Ancient Arabia. All of the pieces and parts are coming into alignment for the premier release of my debut novel. The last day of September (Saturday, the 30th), The Stone Cutter will...
by Brock Meier | May 9, 2023 | history, Nabataea, News
Loving Petra to death When will Petra disappear? In 1000 years? Or maybe 10? Nearly a million tourists a year—two million hands and two million feet—roam over one of the New Seven Wonders of the World—and World Heritage Site—the ancient city of Petra. They come...
by Brock Meier | Jan 21, 2023 | history, Nabataea, Writing
Allure of the Short Story I haven’t written a short story in quite some time. My last efforts toward such resulted in the collection I am tentatively calling “She Knew She Could Fly” (perhaps to be published down the road). I intended to intertwine a dozen (or more as...
by Brock Meier | Jan 3, 2023 | Nabataea
The Nabataean Kingdom was an enigmatic island of first-century luxury, surrounded by a sea of arid dunes. After generations of scraping a life out of the trackless desert, they finally found their stride among the world’s trading nations and amassed untold...
by Brock Meier | Nov 29, 2022 | history, Writing
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”—C. S. Lewis, in “Till We Have Faces” A Story In the late 1970s, I first read the ancient account of a man tormented by demons and then delivered from their influence on the shores of Lake Kinneret. The story...
by Brock Meier | Nov 20, 2022 | Arts, Writing
Adventure A remarkable, and entirely unexpected adventure has occupied the last few years of my life. I have written elsewhere (A Peculiar Darkness: Afterword) concerning the details of this journey through the composition of my first novel. I not only did not...
by Brock Meier | Nov 19, 2022 | Books, Writing
“Yes, my children died that day…” The Gift A few years ago, sister writer Sheri Summers Hunt presented me with a Christmas gift—a copy of her published collection of poems, Journeys In and Out. Shortly after the holidays, I made time to begin...
by Brock Meier | Nov 16, 2022 | Arts, Books, Writing
Questions When people discover that I am an author, they sometimes ask, “So, do you write Christian books?” Earlier in my writing career, I was often perplexed by the question, but I’m now more prepared with an answer. I usually bounce the question back to them. “So,...
by Brock Meier | Nov 16, 2022 | Arts, Creativity
Left/Right? There is a popular neurological myth that says left = analysis and right = creativity, and that people primarily access one side of their brain or the other. And of course we all “know” that analytical thinking is far different than creative thinking. How...