Christianity Today has a cover story on Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, in this month’s issue. There are a couple things I found interesting in the article. For instance, Blue Like Jazz was published in 2003, and sold 20,000 copies it’s first year (one of them to me). It’s sales are now over 800,000, and according to the vice president of marketing for Thomas Nelson Publishers, they are still seeing an increase in units sold per week.

There’s also a paragraph in the article that contains several details people have been waiting for about Don’s future projects:

Miller pledges that his writing style will change significantly with his next book, A Map of Eden, which debuts in 2008. He says he learned the most about himself from writing his most recent book, To Own a Dragon, which chronicles Miller’s experience of growing up without a father and offers lessons he gleaned from a mentoring relationship with photographer John MacMurray. It is also his most focused, consistently well-written book. But Miller says that as he wrote Dragon, he found his heavily personalized writing style was not challenging anymore—it lacked the thrill of creative discovery. (He’s rediscovered the thrill with a screenplay version of Blue Like Jazz, co-written with Steve Taylor and Ben Pearson. And he has plans to create a television show, set in the famed Powell’s bookstore in Portland.)

Links:
Read the full article
Don Miller Fans.net (where you can find more about Don and submit questions for him to answer)
Excerpt from his lecture on Staying Faithful