I've been thinking about this series because it's still popular and it's been out a while. (That's one advantage to writing historical fiction--it's never dated, because it started OLD.) The Cahira O'Connor series was born when Lisa Bergren, novelist and editor extraordinaire, was acquiring fiction for WaterBrook. She knew I was writing historicals, so she contacted me to see if I'd want to do … [Read more...]

I traveled to Georgia last weekend for the Perry Page Turners Book Festival! The festival was started by a group of bookish friends... After attending a book festival in Dahlonega in northern Georgia, these ladies were inspired to plan their own festival for Christian and clean fiction in their city of Perry in central Georgia. They made it happen! And this year marked their third annual … [Read more...]

Hi friends, and happy Wednesday! I just returned from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville,Tennessee. You might wonder why an author would attend a broadcaster’s convention,but it’s for all forms of Christian media and Christian communicators. I never reallythought of a book in the terms of media per se, but the definition of media is: NRB does a fantastic … [Read more...]

I spent a fabulous Sunday afternoon at the Fox Theater in St. Louis yesterday for one of the season's last showings of Phantom of the Opera. This is now officially a tradition started by my daughter Tobi's sister-in-law when we saw Wicked together three years ago. Tobi and I went with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law and we two mother-daughter duos all had dinner together afterwards. The … [Read more...]