We are so very thankful for our faithful readers, those of you who subscribe to our posts via email and those of you who visit the blog on a regular basis. Inspired by Life and Fiction was birthed in March 2014, and many of you have been with us from the start. Twelve-plus years!! That's a lot of blogging. Recently, we've run into some technical issues with our website host, as well as with our … [Read more...]
A Dog Story
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved animals. Pretty much all animals, but especially horses and dogs and cats. However, horses aren’t welcome in most houses, so she had to wait until later to own horses, and so dogs took the top spot in her life. When she was about seven, Nicodemus, the newly-acquired cocker spaniel, set off her big brother’s asthma to a dangerous degree, and … [Read more...]
Travel With Historical Fiction Authors: 2027
Love history and Christian Historical Fiction? Mark your calendars for an unforgettable travel experience. Join award-winning authors LAURA FRANTZ and T. ELIZABETH RENICH in October 2027. Visit historical settings of novels like The Lacemaker, The Indigo Heiress, and A Heart Adrift, plus The Sovereign Liberty Series. See first-hand the places important to America’s founding more than 250 years … [Read more...]
Books and Brunch – Accomplished!
This past weekend two of my fellow authors here on the blog, Karen Witemeyer and D'Ann Mateer, joined me in Dallas for an event at my church called Books & Brunch. It was wonderful to spend time with Karen and D'Ann in person again. It had been a few years! We shared dinner Friday night before meeting back up at the gathering Saturday morning. I've been asked if we coordinated our … [Read more...]
Falling in Love with Falling in Love
Hi, friends! Happy Wednesday. Excited to be back with you. Most readers generally know me as a suspense writer. One who writes the books that hopefully keep you up at night and your door locked ☺ Some know me as a romantic suspense writer, where it’s a combination of the two, but typically, the romance comes second in most readers’ eyes. But, to me, the romance is just as pivotal, if not … [Read more...]
Glimpses from Dollywood
How many of you have been to Dollywood before? We visited last week and had a wonderful time. Dollywood, originally Silver Dollar City before Dolly Parton's partnership in 1986, is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee near where Dolly was born in a small one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, a rural community just outside Sevierville, in the foothills of the beautiful Smoky Mountains. … [Read more...]
Nature’s First Green . . .
I may have posted about this before, but it's an annual spring tradition for me. When I was in high school, every year Mrs. Williams would lead us out of the classroom, down the sidewalk, and to the balcony beneath a sprawling live oak. There she'd look up into the canopy and receive Robert Frost's poem: Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a … [Read more...]
Orthodox = Right Belief
If you’ve read my blog posts for any length of time, you know how much I love to study the Bible. I learned to love it even more when I began reading and studying it through a first century—or earlier—Middle Eastern lens). What did it mean to its original audience? What context am I missing because my culture is so different? What idioms were immediately understood that go right over my … [Read more...]
You Deserve a Break Today
No, this is not a McDonalds ad, but if you are old enough to remember that slogan, then I thank you for for joining me at the Old Timers' Table. LOL. Do you have short activities that you like to use as a palate cleanser of sorts during your day? Perhaps you take a break to walk around your neighborhood or play a game on your phone or read a chapter in a book (only ONE chapter, otherwise it no … [Read more...]
A Savannah Surprise
In 2012, my husband took me on my first trip to Savannah. It was a place he knew I longed to visit, my imagination captured by the city that plays a crucial role in so many of Eugenia Price’s (my favorite author) books. It was our 25th anniversary. We explored Savannah, which I loved, then spent several wonderful days on St. Simon’s Island, where more of Eugenia Price’s books were set, where she … [Read more...]
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