A year ago, I was working on a grant process at the Big Ten university I teach at that involved how to more effectively incorporate AI into my teaching and classes. It was a six-week sprint, and I found it really interesting to think deeply about AI and how to use it with students. How does this relate to writing? Great question! As part of developing an assignment I asked ChatGPT what it … [Read more...]
Five Things I Have Learned Working with Authors
Hi friends! I am emerging from my deadline cave for a moment because I am thrilled to have my virtual assistant, who also happens to be my youngest daughter, share a guest post today, allowing me to continue writing. I hope you enjoy! Hi everyone! My name is Kayla Godfrey, and I am a virtual assistant, specifically a virtual assistant for authors! Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved … [Read more...]
Capitols are Capital with a Capital C!
We're in Kansas this week visiting family and friends. We came by way of Columbia, Missouri where we watched two of our grandsons place 13th and 14th in the State cross country meet. Their team, coached by their dad, Ryan, and mom (our daughter Tobi), took FIRST in State for the third year in a row! We are busting our buttons! It was fun to watch the awards ceremony with their big brother, Reed, … [Read more...]
An Artist’s Perspective
As I told subscribers in my monthly newsletter, I received my first oil paint set when I was twelve, a gift from my mom. In my twenties, I switched to acrylics (I’m too impatient to wait while oils dry). These days, while I enjoy pulling out my paints on occasion, I can say with all honesty that I’m not a true artist. I just enjoy playing with it a little bit. That’s not true of Roger … [Read more...]
On the Way to Rendezvous
This weekend, I'll be joining about 100 readers and 40 writers at the Read, Write, Rendezvous in St. Louis. It's always a joy to mingle with readers and fellow writers. I'm looking forward to a fun weekend filled with bookish delights. Last weekend, however, my husband and I drove to Tulsa for the Will Rogers Medallion Award banquet. I was a double finalist in their western romance category. … [Read more...]
Why I Read Widely
There are so many things in our Christian walk that are guided by the Holy Spirit and not by “commands” from scripture. And I’ve found over many years of walking with Christ, that those things don’t always align from Christian to Christian. It’s one of the causes of division in the body of Christ—that we too often turn, like Peter, and look at our brothers and sisters and say to Jesus, “But what … [Read more...]
The Lord’s Prayer | Official Film Trailer
I love diving deeper into God's Word—studying it through its original lens of history, geography, and cultural background. Context is crucial to understanding the Bible. Understanding what it meant to the original recipients is essential to grasping its powerful meaning for us today. Over two thousand years ago, Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer. And as Brad Gray of Walking the Text teaching … [Read more...]
Painting the Day Away
As you may remember, I started painting during Covid . . . and then things got busy and I sort of set my paint brushes aside. Or, to be completely accurate, I stopped going out to the caboose that serves as my painting studio. (What else are you going to do with a caboose in the front yard?) But the other day a woman actually wanted to buy one of my older paintings, so I went out to the … [Read more...]
The Life of a Novel Series
This post is a rewrite of one I wrote almost a decade ago, and since the series has been updated I thought I would share this again. It serves as a good example of how a series comes to be, how it might change over the course of writing three or more books, and how it lives on for many years after its first publication. The first Hanover Falls novel, Almost Forever, was first published almost … [Read more...]
Life Imitating Fiction (and a giveaway!)
When I started work on My Stubborn Heart, I realized immediately that I'd found the genre I was always meant to write. Christian contemporary romance. I'd published four of those when I made another discovery. I loved adding mystery to my Christian contemporary romances. I've woven a mystery into every book since. Hopefully, that element engages your curiosity, gets you asking "What happened?", … [Read more...]
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