How The Pride of Central came to be - and how you can finish your first novel.

Over the last month, my church has been doing a series of messages inspired by the Old Testament book of Esther. In that book, Esther is...

Although I wrote my first novel about a baseball team, much of my reading (and movie watching) is of epic fantasy and science fiction....

People who know me well – or who have followed this blog from its beginning – know that baseball is my favorite sport. It is the only...

I think that the sports world fails to give Minor League Baseball players enough credit for how far they have come in their sport. Maybe...

No matter how emotional or stoic a person is, acceptance feels good, and rejection feels horrible. We feel these things in so many areas...

In 2002, long before The Pride of Central was even a thought in my mind, I became a volunteer/advocate for Compassion International, a...

It finally happened. Eleven years after the first traces of a story crossed my mind, and more than two years after I finally sat down and...

The time is here. On Wednesday, The Pride of Central will be released to the public. From the outside, it may appear that this is a day...

As we near the release date for The Pride of Central, I've had some time to reflect on how much writing this novel has changed my life....

It is time. Your story is written, and you've edited it. Not just run a spellchecker through it, but read and reread your own work, and...

As I finished the first draft of The Pride of Central and was deep into the editing stage, it finally occurred to me that other people...

One of the most important things a writer can do in preparing to write their first novel is learn from writers who have done it before....

One overused piece of advice to writers is to “write what you know”. It does make sense, but I think this logic is often misapplied. As a...

Once I had the general storyline of The Pride of Central in my mind, and once my personal schedule allowed me the time, I started writing...

In the summer of 2008, I was covering an American Legion baseball tournament for a local newspaper. It was one of dozens of baseball...

Hello, and welcome to “Bohr's Blog”. This is my first blog entry as I share my story about how I went from dreaming about becoming a...