At the Reader Rendezvous in the fall of 2024, wonderful reader Beckie (of the ByTheBook Blog) asked me if I'd be interested in coming to Georgia to speak at the festival she helps organize. My immediate answer was, "YES!" Fast forward more than a year, and I'll soon be traveling to Georgia to make good on that yes. In honor of America's 250th birthday, the Perry Page Turners are calling … [Read more...]

I recently returned home from a trip to California! When I go on vacation, I continue to check email and social media daily. I don't tend to post much, other than in my Instagram/Facebook stories, but I do stay stay abreast of things. During my time in California, I was taken by surprise by the increasingly amazing response to our 2026 Christian Fiction Reading Challenge. [If this is the … [Read more...]

Merry day after Christmas, everyone! In thinking about what I wanted to blog about today, I thought, "I know! I'll share some of my Christmas cards through the years!" Then thought, "Wait. I think I blogged about that once already." I checked, and I DID already blog about it in 2017. So instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm recycling my original post, adding this year's Christmas card to it, and … [Read more...]

My Christmas novella Because of You was first traditionally published. In other words, I entered into a contract which gave my traditional publisher, Bethany House, the right to publish and distribute my novella. Which they did in a few different ways! First, through the publication of The Christmas Heirloom collection in 2018. They made the collection available in paperback, ebook, and … [Read more...]

I hope you're enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! Today, it felt fitting to post the words of a beautiful hymn, as a corporate prayer of gratitude. Thomas O. Chisholm wrote the poem Great Is Thy Faithfulness in 1923. He then sent it to William Runyan, who set the words to music. The hymn was published that same year. "Great is thy faithfulness" is a reference to Lamentations 3:22-23 … [Read more...]