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Inspired by Scripture

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We want to wish all the fathers and grandfathers and all who have served the role of loving father figure in someone's life a very happy and blessed Father's Day today! This Sunday feature is brought to you by ClashVerseoftheDay.com. You may sign up to receive a beautiful photo with Scripture in your inbox each morning or view the verse each day online. … [Read more...]

Cover Reveal!

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I’m SUPER excited to reveal a cover today! The cover for book 2 in my Waters of Time Series! The first book in this new time-crossing series, Come Back to Me released June 1. And the cover was spectacular! Don’t you agree? I’ve had lots of readers say that the cover drew them to the book. And many others who said that while time travel isn’t a genre they normally read, they gave the book a … [Read more...]

Take the Character Quiz

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Characters are the heart of every story. Each must be unique, fully developed, and compelling. A challenging task for an author. I found it especially daunting with The Heart's Charge since I had four main characters instead of the usual two. When we meet someone in real life, we don't instantly know their deepest secrets and spiritual passions. In the beginning all we really know about them is … [Read more...]

Indulging My Inner Librarian

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I loved going to the library as a child—whether the school library, where teachers often sent me when I had finished my work and was bored or the local library, where I would check out more books than I could carry each week in the summer. Even in college I loved poking around the library just for fun. But in 1986 I got a completely different view of the library. I accepted a job working the … [Read more...]

Share your pictures!

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It's been a while since we've played this— Describe the last three photos on your cell phone(it could be a photo you've taken or maybe a screenshot, whatever, just the last three) And no, I didn't go look at my last three pics before deciding to do this. I might have chosen a different topic if I had! ; } #1 The last picture on my cell is a screenshot I took yesterday: Maaike … [Read more...]

A Tale of Two Lawn Chairs

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Once upon a time...oh, the anticipation of those famous opening words! Well, this isn't exactly an exciting or inspiring story, but it is kind of a fun one. Once upon a time, there were two lawn chairs. I really don't know how their "lives" began, but I know a lot of their story and I'm thrilled that for now, at least, their story has ended at our house. My husband's grandparents, who both … [Read more...]

In the Beginning . . .

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No, my title for this blog post doesn't refer to the first line of Genesis. I’m talking about beginning a new novel. “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”  ― Beatrix Potter As Beatrix Potter said (I quote her often on this), there is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. And if a writer is … [Read more...]

Contest and Ebook Deals

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Y'all, I got a really fun call yesterday after missing one a couple weeks ago. Flight Risk, my book about finding truth in fake news world and romance and family and well, you get the idea, has finaled in two contests. Usually, I miss the application deadlines for these. I think about it two weeks after the deadline has passed. Writing has been a tough journey in the pandemic, so it's been so … [Read more...]

Not Perseverance After All

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Hi friends, Happy to be back with you today! As the title alludes, this originally was going to be a post about preserving through difficult times, but then I realized, to my surprise, it wasn’t about perseverance at all. To say life has been a rollercoaster lately is an understatement. I went in for cataract surgery a couple weeks ago. Everyone told me it was easy. Everyone around me who’d … [Read more...]

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