GlennMyers.info
writer & creative
"Why pray
when you
can worry?"
Welcome
I'm a writer. Up to recently it's been journalism and copywriting.
The journalism was mostly writing a series of 11 books called Briefings, in partnership with mission agency WEC International. This 13-year project explored strange new worlds, sought out new civilisations, didn't split a single infinitive, and told the not-very-well-known story of the Christian Church in unlikely corners of the earth.
The last couple of years I've been unable to resist an impulse to write comic fiction, and have rearranged my work-life accordingly. I want to tell stories about souls, and grace, and repentance. You can judge how I'm getting on: see a sample chapter or or sign up to buy the books! (When they're published, that is.)
I also work some of the time as a (in decreasing order of enthusiasm)
and am happy to be approached for work.
News -- autumn 2009
I have two new books in the works.
Life Lessons: I asked a bunch of people, some of them well-loved writers like Helen Roseveare, Patrick Johnstone and Susan Sutton, to write about events that changed their lives forever. The idea is that vicarious learning -- learning from other people's mistakes -- is much less painful than the non-vicarious type. The book has study questions at the end of each chapter so that church homegroups can chew over it too. I edited their chapters and supplied a chapter myself about what near-death experiences can teach you about time management. It's a fine book. To be published by Christian Focus in March 2010.
Thousands (working title): A brief biography of missionary Bruce Rattray, who saw thousands of people enter the Christian church in the jungles of Kalimantan, Indonesia. For this book, I interviewed Bruce for three weeks, just before his death, and then re-wrote an existing typescript. Underneath the story of a truly huge and miracle-filled movement to the Christian faith is another story of love found, mislaid and found again. I cried along with Bruce retelling the story. To be published by WEC Publications, quite possibly by Christmas.