Great Expectations – perhaps little read anymore, but a great book

1981. My 9th grade English class. The assignment was Great Expectations. It was a time when reading and literature was my enemy. Books were stuffy old furniture. Reading conflicted with my life goal of being a slacker. It threatened to tame the animal nature that was...

Profanity, vulgarity and abusive speech

My completed novel has a few places with strong vulgarities, F-bombs, and some references that many Christians would consider blasphemous. So there I was, on the phone with Westbow Press, the self-publishing branch of Thomas Nelson, a major publisher. They wanted...