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Shelf Life
By Pam Hillman
The men in my family are sticklers about the dates on canned
goods. If the date is expired on a can of vegetables, they won’t eat them.
Expired ketchup? Fuh-get-about-it! Mayonaise? You’ve GOT to be kidding?
But don’t expect them to actually open the oldest bottle
first. Oh no! That would take way too much time and thought. No, they grab the
newest one...unless I hide it. Just sayin’
Big ticket items like cars and homes kinda have a shelf
life. I mean it’s not stamped on your house, “will expire in 40 years”, but
eventually these material things will become run-down, decay, wear out. Even
stone castles don’t last forever.
You would think that our very lives have a shelf life. I
mean we’re born, we grow, learn, advance in age, then end up as senior
citizens, and pass on from this life. But do we really have a shelf life? Can
anybody put a stamp on us that says, “you’re done”?
No, not really. God is the only one who can put a time stamp
on us, and even then, we’re not “done for”. As long as we put our trust in God,
we’ll never, EVER be done for. We’ll spend the rest of eternity in Heaven with
Him. Wow! Christians have a shelf life that extends into eternity and beyond.
Now that a shelf life to get excited about, isn’t it?
While you savor that tidbit, let’s focus on books for a
moment. Print books can have a long, healthy shelf life if properly taken care
of, but they do age after time. The pages become brittle, the binding loose,
spines stiff. So, yeah, sad to say, but books have a shelf life.
Ebooks have burst on the scene in the last few years, so it
will be interesting to see what kind of shelf life they have. They won’t face
the same decaying forces of humidity, or dry air, or neglect that cause print
books to decay, but they might encounter changes in software and hardware that
might make them obsolete over time. Looking at it from this side of the fence,
it looks like ebooks will have a long and productive shelf life.
My current novel, Claiming
Mariah, is an ebook from Tyndale House. I definitely want it to have a
long shelf life, as an ebook and as a print book someday. My debut novel, Stealing
Jake, released in July, 2011, and it’s still clocking along nicely eighteen
months later. With a click of a button, fans can download either book instantly.
And that kind of shelf life makes me smile.
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Pam Hillman was
born and raised on a dairy farm in Mississippi
and spent her teenage years perched on the seat of a tractor raking hay. In
those days, her daddy couldn’t afford two cab tractors with air conditioning
and a radio, so Pam drove the Allis Chalmers 110. Even when her daddy asked her
if she wanted to bale hay, she told him she didn’t mind raking. Raking hay
doesn’t take much thought so Pam spent her time working on her tan and making
up stories in her head. Now, that’s the kind of life every girl should dream
of! Claiming
Mariah is her second novel.
Pam is thrilled to announce the release of her second novel,
Claiming Mariah
To celebrate, Pam is giving away two eReaders
(choice of Kindle Wi-Fi,
6" Display, or Nook Simple Touch) to
Two Winners.
Two ways to win: Like Pam Hillman’s Author page on facebook and/or sign up for Pam’s newsletter.
Registering both places is not required but
will double your chances of winning. Also keep in mind that you will receive
updates more often being connected on facebook than through the newsletter.
Just sayin’
Contest runs from January 1st until March 31st, 2013.
And....that’s
not all! There will be prizes offered randomly during the tour. The best way to
keep up with these is to check in regularly on the facebook page.
Like Pam’s facebook author page and click
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So tell me, is it only guys that open food with the latest date and leave the older date on the shelf?
This is one of the prettiest covers I have ever seen. It is so stunning! I've seen it out and about and it has my curiosity piqued!
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