Hey readers! In anticipation of my new novel, An Authentic Derivative, I am releasing the first seven pages for free.
Click on the link below for a free pdf of the first 7 pages.
auth sample-pdf
“This reads like the monologue at the beginning of a later Wes Anderson film, as edited by Salinger. I don’t hate it.”
-Stephano Mugnaini
HERE you can contribute to the campaign to fund the production and promotion of the novel:
Very soon, you will hear the announcement.
We here at Caleb Coy blog have been working day in, day out to produce a novel of sorts.
It will arrive this summer. In fact, here’s your first tease—a sketch by a Nashville graphic artist currently working on our cover.
How will we know about it? Subscribe to this blog, if you haven’t already. Subscribe to my Twitter (which you can find running below my stately picture in the right column). You will soon be invited to participate in a novel experience.
Unlike most of the novels you see in stores, this novel will not pass through the grindings of a traditional publisher. This novel will take passage through a more recently carved path—that of digital self publishing, specifically, by way of crowdfunding.
Using IndieGoGo, Caleb Coy is going to sell preordered copies of his brand new novel in order to crowd fund its production. It is in the spirit of the novel itself, and its narrator, to bring the story to the public in such a fashion. In other words, YOU can make this novel happen before it even happens.
Stay tuned. This novel is so hip it hasn’t even been published yet. Be one of the first to preorder it, and you can enjoy one of many upcoming perks.
BIVOUAC
Twas a lubugrious time
to bivouac
in our bivy sack
but come the morning time
we went galumphing back.
Confrontational thoughts from a fellow blogger. Despite how tired we might be of the Bruce Jenner story, what angles are being neglected?
Part of me hates to bandwagon onto this topic, as so much has already been said. It is a bit strange that as our economy sputters, the Middle East burns, and our communities descend into violence, we choose to obsess over the personal decisions of someone who a few years ago would have been considered a D-list celebrity. However I’m going to do it; not because I feel compelled to support or attack Jenner, but because the transgendered movement—and our society’s response to that movement—is illustrative of a broader, more important trend.
There is a shift going on in our culture to deny objective reality and to substitute in its place subjective feelings. While we should respect and value the human rights of each individual, we do not have the “right” to determine our own reality, nor do we have the right to then force everyone else to go along with…
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“Men in prolonged battle are not normal men. When afterward they seem to be reticent- perhaps they do not remember.”
John Steinbeck
I haven’t read Winter’s Bone. Neither have I seen the film. But I took a small chance one day when I purchased a copy of Woodrell’s short story collection for only a dollar. I came away with something worth more.
My review of 50 Shades of Grey hasn’t changed.
In his blog From Dust, Carl Jenkins examines the common perception that 1 Tim. 5:8 is talking about self defense.
My last post dealt with a passage that is often used to advocate the Christian’s right to defend oneself to the point of taking another’s life. The point of that post, as well as this one, was not to try and “convert” anyone to a position that denies the right of a Christian to defend their self of others in a way that willingly takes human life, but rather to evaluate the text in it’s context and see if it does or does not say anything about Christians and self-defense. My conclusion was that it says nothing either way about the issue. This post is in the same vein, in that it will focus on a particular verse (I Timothy 5:8) that is often used in the discussion of defending one’s self or loved ones through taking the life of someone trying to do you harm.
But if anyone…
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Peter’s Patter blogs an evaluation of the “Five Steps of Salvation” outline that emerged in Christian Churches during the 1800s. While each of the “steps” are crucial, he writes, such a presentation of the Good News can become spiritually damaging.
The current final version of the Plan of Salvation taught in most Churches of Christ and Christian Churches looks like this:
For more explanation of these steps see this post.
Although these Steps have been taught as Gospel for many years, I have a few concerns with them. I also have some issues with this approach to Bible study. However, I DO BELIEVE that each of these “Steps” is crucial to our relationship with God. We cannot have meaningful relationship with God while rejecting any of these commands. The Bible clearly connects each of these…
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