J. Mark Bertrand

Bio

  • J. Mark Bertrand lectures at Worldview Academy and is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007). After spending most of his life in Houston, Texas, he now lives with his wife Laurie in South Dakota. He has a BA in English from Union University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he worked as production editor of the literary magazine Gulf Coast. For several years, he served on the board of Strange Land Literacy Foundation, a non-profit promoting literature, theology, culture studies and fellowship in Houston. Until recently, he was the fiction editor at Relief Journal, where he now serves on the advisory board.

Historical Note

  • Write About Now is the successor to my original fiction blog called Notes on Craft. The archive there is still online and dates from March 2004 to September 2007. Feel free to explore it at your leisure.

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September 28, 2007

Write About Now ... And Not a Moment Too Soon

Welcome to Write About Now. I'm J. Mark Bertrand, and this is my new blog about writing and publishing. Since 2005, I've been writing about craft in fiction at a blog called, unimaginatively enough, Notes on Craft, but here I'm opening the topic up to include more than craft. What you need to know about me: I write non-fiction, but my real love is fiction ... and I'm an editor, too. Thanks to my MFA in Creative Writing, I have literary ambitions, but these days what I'm really interested in is crime fiction. Read as much as you like, push back and let me know what you think. With no further ado, here goes ...

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Good blog! I'll be back. Rod

Love the new blog. Simply mad about the pic (you look great there!) And I need to go linky you up. (Oh, and already pre-ordered RW)

Later,
Mir

I really appreciate this post. I appreciate the others, too. Thanks for sharing.

There you are! I thought you'd gone strangely quiet.

There you are! I thought you'd gone strangely quiet.

Hi, J, Mark. Love the new look. Excited for you and the new blog.

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