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4 Things They Didn’t Tell You about When Dreams Come True

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This week I learned that Shadowed by Grace finaled in Christian Retailing's BEST Awards in the historical category. This is quite a thrill because there was a journey to Shadowed by Grace getting published. As any author can tell you, each story has it's own road filled with twists and turns. [Tweet "4 things "they" don't tell us about chasing #dreams from @cara_putman."] There are so many … [Read more...]

An Unexpected Adventure

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Life is an adventure. We can probably all agree on that. Sometimes it takes some unexpected twists and turns. I just got back from one of those. It was a good twist, but one I never expected to find myself taking. I spent all of last week in Brazil. When you ask me where I want to travel, what I what to see, what I hope to experience, Brazil never hit the list. In fact, traveling south of … [Read more...]

Developing New Ideas

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Developing new ideas for books is an agony for me. I know many people who see ideas EVERYWHERE. I am not so blessed. Maybe it's because when I think of a book, I realize I am committing a minimum of two years of my life to that story. There's the research and proposal stage. Writing the proposal is truly my least favorite part of the process, but when I'm teachable and allow myself to be pushed … [Read more...]

What Next, Lord?

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Do you ever find yourself wondering what God has next? Yeah, I know. You're probably thinking, "Duh. Happens all the time, Putman." That's what I'm thinking as I sit here in Starbucks preparing this post. This is not the first time that I've neared the end of a phase of life and wonder what's next? Where does He want me to go first? Right now it's reevaluating whether I'm supposed to make … [Read more...]

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