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 | 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 | Sep 7, 2022 | Writing
Welcome to my life as an artist/poet/author, where there is never a dull moment. Having completed a collection of short stories and two novels, I was on the verge of writing a sequel to my second novel. In fact, I thought this could become a series of at least three,...