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Celebrating the Writing Journey and a Giveaway

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Writing is such a journey. When I started writing 12 years ago, I hoped that maybe one or two books would get published. Well, the first one was published in the fall of 2007 and since then I've written 26 and I have at least two more coming. Crazy! It's easy for me to get so busy writing that I keep my head down and forget to celebrate all the good and fun things that are happening. [Tweet … [Read more...]

Fact and Fiction, Part 1

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All of these "Ten Things You Might Not Know About Me" posts have been so much fun, that I thought I would continue along that line with some posts about my writing journey. I'm calling these posts Fact and Fiction. Today is part 1. Teach Me to Read My love affair with books began before I could read. I grew up in a household of readers. It seemed to me that everyone always had their noses in … [Read more...]

10 Things You Might Not Know About Tamera Alexander

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I grew up in Tucker, Georgia, near Stone Mountain State Park. I climbed that granite mountain countless times in the first 22 years of my life (and not since!). I used real pies for my team's "pie graphs" in my senior college capstone business class—Chocolate Chess Pie and Buttermilk Pie! We won the simulation and got an A in the course—all due to the incredible smarts of my team mates, … [Read more...]

10 Things You Might Not Know About Lynn Austin

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1. I grew up in New York State in the Hudson Valley about 60 miles north of New York City. As the middle sister of three, I’m blessed to have two built-in, lifelong, best friends.2. I was a huge fan of the Beatles as a teenager and heard them perform in person twice—once in Atlantic City, and once in Shea Stadium in NYC. The stadium held 56,000 screaming Beatles’ fans and afterward it seemed like … [Read more...]

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Jody Hedlund

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I’m joining the rest of the lovely ladies here on the blog and sharing 10 things you might not know about me! 1. I grew up a PK (pastor's kid). My dad was a Lutheran Pastor. And I grew up in the church. Not literally, of course. We usually lived in a parsonage, often one that was next door to the church. But my life centered around attending Sunday School and church, reading the Bible, and … [Read more...]

The New Release YOU Helped Create

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If you are a regular reader of this blog, you might remember a post from about a year and a half ago where I invited our readers to help me brainstorm ideas for my next novella. (You can see that post here.) Well, that baby you helped create has just entered the world! Worth the Wait is the second story in the Ladies of Harper's Station series, and I truly believe it wouldn't exist today … [Read more...]

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Lenora Worth

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I was born and raised in Southwest Georgia and I grew up on a farm. I cropped tobacco, strung tobacco and hung tobacco high up on rafters in an old creaky barn. It was hard work and I'd walk the distance from the fields and barns back to my house, my hands and clothes covered with tar. I also picked peanuts and pulled corn and drove tractors and planters and big trucks. I had to beg my daddy to … [Read more...]

Celebrating A Note Yet Unsung Release

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In celebration of my newest release, A Note Yet Unsung, my publisher and I are hosting a fabulous giveaway that I hope you'll enter—and then share with your reader buddies. enter the giveaway more about A Note Yet Unsung begin reading A Note Yet Unsung   My TBR stack is piled high with fabulous new reads including some from our very own bloggers here at Inspired by Life and … [Read more...]

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