Finding Spaghetti in a Cookbook

As some of you may know, I'm a writer. Right now I do some freelance work for a small, weekly newspaper. It's not much, but it's a start.

My dream, however, is to publish novels. I've already written a few (which I'm still working on), but I want to see them in print.

As part of this journey, I started attending conferences and submitting to publishers and contests. I also do research on the various publishing houses, just so I know what people want. I mean, I don't want to waste any one's time by sending an 83,000 word novel to a publisher that only prints 10,000 non-fiction.

It was during this research that I found it - one of the most confusing titles I've ever seen: Finding God in "The Shack".

Um...are you serious?

For those of you unfamiliar with The Shack by Wm. Paul Young, it is an amazing story about God, where He is during the hard times in our lives, and His amazing love for us. It would take too long to tell you what a positive effect it had on me, but I'll say this - if you want to believe what the Bible says about God, but you struggle with understanding how there can be evil in the world, pick this up. No book can replace the Bible in it's truth and wisdom, but The Shack can help you relate to it better.

With that said, there is NOTHING about this book that makes God hard to find. The back cover tells you - Mack gets a note, apparently from God. It only takes a couple of chapters for God to appear. I don't want to give anything away, but you'd have to be BLIND to miss God in this book!

And yet some wrote a book on finding God in The Shack? And then someone published it??

What's next? Finding God in The Bible. Finding Spaghetti in a Cookbook. Finding Words in a Book.

Duh. Seriously, I want to published as much as the next person, but I have my limits. Please know that you will never find a book published by me that could have been entitled:

Captain Obvious does it again!