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at 09/03/10 6:13PM
DeWard Publishing Company is happy to announce that we're now taking pre-orders for our first novel, The Master's Wall.






He fights for his freedom. She fights for her life. Together, they fight for each other.

After watching Roman soldiers drag his parents away to their death, David, a young Hebrew, is sold and enslaved to serve at a villa outside of Rome. As David trains to become a skilled fighter, he works hard to please his master and hopes to earn his freedom. However, an opportunity to escape tempts him with its whispering call. Freedom beckons, but invisible chains hold him captive to the master’s granddaughter, an innocent girl with a fiery spirit. David vows to protect Alethea from his master, the murderous patriarch, and contrives a daring plan—sacrifice his own life to save hers.


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at 08/31/10 1:20PM
Leupold's Exposition of Genesis has gone to the printer. We're going to hold off on the official release for another week or so due to another forthcoming announcement, but drop me a line if you're interested in a copy and we can get it to you as soon as we have some in hand.

08/25/10 10:17AM

  • iamyourfather
    The library's computers blocked this. It said it was tasteless. Knowing that it came from my brother, the preacher and professor and publisher of religious books, I knew this couldn't be so and started to get upset and rail at the librarian, then I remembered: It came from MY brother with the evil sense of humor and his genes. The library was probably right to block it.

    :)
    by iamyourfather at 08/25/10 2:53PM
  • ward
    Hmm. Must be the website I linked it from. Oh well.

    But, librarians are generally some of the most liberal folk you'll meet, fighting for freedom of information and all. Hard to believe that a library's server would be blocking things.
    by ward at 08/25/10 4:36PM
  • ward
    Besides, I found it on my computer at FC... can't be too bad!
    by ward at 08/25/10 4:42PM
  • navydoc
    I heard a joke recently...There's 2 bums who are friends, one is hispanic. The non-hispanic one was jealous of his latino friend who was making way more money than he was. The latino asked what his friend's sign said. He replied, 'Homeless, any money will help, God bless.' So he asked his Latino friend what his sign said. He says, 'Just need $20 to get back to Mexico, please help.'
    by navydoc at 08/25/10 11:27PM
  • grizzlytwelve
    I love the story I heard Marty Pickup tell one time...about the bum with the sign that said, "I'll be honest...I want a beer".
    by grizzlytwelve at 08/27/10 6:14PM

random stuff

at 08/24/10 9:06AM
Family
Silas is one. Hard to believe.

Lots of visitors two weekends ago—family from both sides. Lucas is coming down this weekend, and we have a lot scheduled. Among other things, we're hoping to watch the Rays beat up on the Sox.

Spending a lot of time with Jared and Kathryn lately. Between working out together regularly and (theoretically) working on the second Lord's Supper book, it's made for a good amount of time to catch up. Kind of funny, though. Kathryn and I are cousins, rarely saw each other growing up because we lived in different states, didn't spend a lot of time together when she came to FC, but now that her husband and I are working out together, we're regularly hanging out.

Had a small window of opportunity to get a puppy recently. If we had a bigger yard—or if we didn't have a baby simultaneously—we might have done it. We passed for now. Another time.

Preaching
Looks like my time in Palmetto may be coming to an end soon. I don't suppose that I'm at liberty to spill any details, but it does look like they may be making a full-time hire soon. As much as I'll miss the folks down there (and the supplemental income has been very helpful as well), spending all-day Sundays an hour away a couple of Sundays per month for nearly a year now has been taxing (and will be even more taxing come March '11 when the government finds out about the supplemental income).

DeWard Update
The last stages of editing of Leupold is done. Now, I just have to find the time to go back through and make a couple thousand changes. Should be quicker than it sounds—perhaps quick enough for a September release. I'm not sure where exactly Evidences of Christianity stands; I'm allowing Dr. McGrew to work at his own pace and will just check in on him from time to time.

Jesus and His Parables and Thinking Through Job are done except a final edit on each. Depending on how long that takes, they should be late-September or October releases.

Grace Does That? is next up for layout. It has already been edited, so it should go straight from layout to the press. I can't see why a September release won't happen.

I've begun layout work on Flight Paths. Given the nature and length of this one, it will take a while longer than most. But that's why I'm giving myself some extra time here at the outset.

Finally, we've picked up one more non-Heritage of Faith reprint projects: Things Most Surely Believed by Forrest D. Moyer. Normally, this would go to the far end of the line and be a project for next year, but it will be a very simple layout, so if I can find a couple of days to squeeze it in during the next month or so, I'm going to.
  • figpicker
    take a little time out to sleep.
    by figpicker at 08/24/10 7:48PM
  • ward
    Laid in bed last night staring at the ceiling for a couple of hours. Would have been time better spent working on more of the Leupold edits (which are going much faster than expected). Either that or watching the end of the Rays game.
    by ward at 08/25/10 8:52AM

two reasons to post

at 08/18/10 9:17AM
First, I had to get that video off the page. That stupid song has been stuck in my head for way too long.

Second, I thought I'd post an update on Exposition of Genesis and A View of the Evidences of Christianity. We'd hoped that both of those would be released by now. It turned out, however, that even with the fine work of our proofreaders, those manuscripts had issues that we didn't even know to look for at the time. In short, they've both been seriously delayed—but progress is still being made. Perhaps September and/or October for them.
  • engelishgentleman
    What ended up being wrong with the manuscripts, exactly?
    by engelishgentleman at 08/18/10 10:25AM
  • deusvitae
    ?
    by deusvitae at 08/18/10 11:33AM
  • thepoeticmadman
    You guys got the wrong manuscripts.

    Just kidding.
    by thepoeticmadman at 08/18/10 5:53PM
  • ward
    Jonathan, I can't say for sure what all was wrong with Evidences, but Dr. McGrew caught a lot of stuff that was beyond a basic proofread for OCR glitches—the sort of stuff you wouldn't have known to look for or realized as wrong when you read it.

    Ethan, two big things. The OCR rendered about 95% of Leupold's = signs as —, and he used a fair amount of them. The bigger issue is InDesign's 'smart quotes' were too smart for their own good. It turned about 95% of the apostrophes in the right direction for English usage (a few, for some reason, it didn't). Unfortunately, English usage is not the same as Hebrew transliteration usage, and it turned a whole lot of alephs and ayins the wrong way.

    So, while Dr. McGrew is working his way through Evidences I've been working my way through Genesis, each of us in our own little world of exponential tedium. Can't speak for him, but I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
    by ward at 08/19/10 10:24PM
  • iammountainfolk
    i almost made fun of the captions in that video for being comic sans, but they aren't! They are Apple's version of comic sans, called Casual.
    by iammountainfolk at 08/19/10 11:59PM
  • ward
    That's what you thought to make fun of about the video?
    by ward at 08/20/10 8:48AM
  • tu_madre
    i'm trying to develop patience... or something...
    by tu_madre at 08/23/10 2:35PM