Rachael Lawrence

One friend of the administration already "killed himself," so it seems like a non-zero chance at least.

Owen Owens was a church leader in ecological and racial justice in our nation. Before he passed away, he asked us at Judson Press to care for his final book. Read his reflections on caring for the planet and each other, even in challenging times.
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Coming soon! This was a different kind of book for Judson Press. Children's Mental Health Resources for the Church offers practical ways that the church can help fill some of the service gaps for children's mental well-being. www.judsonpress.com/Products/J32...

Please know, none of this is a reflection on your book or you as a person when an editor doesn't want to review your book when they are working at a conference bookstore. Our systems are in place for a reason, and we really appreciate it when people proactively learn about and use them.

Reason 4: Decisions about acquisitions are usually made by a team. A team will not be sharing the physical copy of your book, especially if the other typical information for making a decision isn't present.

Reason 3: Physical copies that come across our tables during a conference may go missing. They can get lost in transit or sometimes even be lifted from a table. This doesn't happen with electronic submissions that come in the formal pathway.

Reason 2: You have already invested time, energy, finances, and paper from trees into producing a book without editorial feedback from the company you're approaching. Right or wrong, it leaves the impression that you may not want more feedback or work on the manuscript to meet house standards.

Reason 1: We have guidelines for submissions that include the information we really need to consider your work. These are usually available on our websites. No real end-run around us needing that info, unless we really know you as an author. 2/

Every once in a while, I like to offer some unsolicited advice to writers. Today, I want to address coming up to a publishing house at a conference and asking them to review your self-published work to see if they'll pick it up. Invariably, the answer will be no. Reasons follow: 1/

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First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Imagine becoming okay with packing people into animal kennels just to satisfy your pedophile leader.

Now available! This book brings together scholars and Christian educators who are writing on various topics to support raising children in faith. It is a follow-up to our devotional-style book, Raising Faithful Kids: This is the Stuff of Faith.
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That's what I've always said about him. Except that I've met good used car salespeople.

Tail end, backside, bum. So many great options.

They couldn’t be more deserving.

This is a confession that he has never invented a thing. It takes empathy to innovate in ways people find paradigm shifting. His real designers and engineers have empathy.

Our booming economy is gone in less than a month. The only presidency with a rockier beginning was what Obama inherited in 2009.

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Ruby is the sweetest.

Something sobering is that no other country on the planet is large enough to accept US refugees if our state collapses.

While we’re being dictated over, could you please do something about the time change? That would be one positive thing at least.

I hope to see a regular non-fascist conservative again sometime in my lifetime.

They would dismiss me as a DEI hire because of gender and disability. Because merit is not about ability or achievement in their world.

I was the top of my college class, with a 4.0 at graduation, with 156 credit hours in 4 years. I made a point to get a b or two in my other grad programs to take the pressure off myself.

Their meritocracy did not believe in supporting me. I was an academically gifted kid who was free and reduced lunch qualified because my parents were religious workers. I would not have a bachelors, masters, or PhD if it weren’t for federal financial aid. They do not think I deserved my education.

Nothing like seeing your retirement account dip to know that 47 is in the White House.

Dear Elon spoof accounts: I would block you especially if I thought you were the real deal.