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This has been a fun week at Jesus Needs New PR, the blog of my friend (and fellow writer) Matthew Paul Turner. A few years back, he wrote a book called What You Didn’t Learn from Your Parents About Sex (A Guide to a Touchy Subject). There aren’t too many Christian sex books out there.…

Did you know that there’s a bit of a kerfuffle brewing among psychologists because images of the famed Rorschach inkblot tests have now been posted on Wikipedia, along with the most common responses for each image? Mental-health professionals, as you might have seen on TV or in the movies, often use a person’s interpretation of…

A few weeks ago, friend-of-the-Pocket-Guides Bryan Allain asked me to participate in a humor survey he was doing on his blog. Apparently because he needed to fill space between photos of Amish people and stories about eating tacos with Derek Webb. So Bryan asked me some pretty interesting questions about humor, my relationship to it,…

Today at RelevantMagazine.com I have an interview with Rob Stennett, the author of the new novel The End Is Now, which is probably best described as “satirical rapture fiction.” It’s a hot new genre! I’m not going to reprint the full interview, but I will give you an excerpt because I think it applies to…

It’s another round of confessions, this time related to the Pocket Guides. I’ve done it before, on multiple occasions, and now I’m doing it again. Why? Because I have no shame. 1. Sometimes, when I open up one of my new books, I read a passage I have forgotten about and laugh. Occasionally out loud.…

So I have a small problem. There were fewer entries yesterday than I’d hoped — I’m pretty sure the stringent caption rules had something to do with this — but those who entered did an excellent job. However, my favorite entry came an hour and 43 minutes after the announced contest deadline. It was Bryan…

In honor of Pocket Guide release week, it’s time for another fun caption contest. The winner gets a free copy of any of the new books — Bible, Sainthood, or Afterlife (your choice). Enter as often as you like, with one entry per comment. Here are the rules: 1. The caption can be no longer…

Today is officially the release date for my three new Pocket Guide books, although in the publishing industry there’s not always a specific street date (unless you’re crazy big-time like Harry Potter or Twilight). Some stores may have already had my books on the shelves. Some may display them today. Others will get them out…

I have no excuses for not having blogged this week. Actually, I have one fairly good excuse. Thanks to all of you who participated in the Great Pocket Guide Giveaway of 2009 on Monday and Tuesday, I have spent most of my free time signing, packing, and shipping books. In total, over a 24-hour period,…

I want to try something. Thanks to Chris Anderson’s new book, Free — and the controversy it has caused — there has been a lot of discussion around the Web regarding the value of products. Specifically, whether or not it makes sense to offer a product for free? I don’t know the answer to that.…
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