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Spring Break Album (and a giveaway!)

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Our family recently returned from spring break! We took an epic road trip from Dallas all the way to western North Carolina. Not only is that area of the country beautiful, but because I'm setting my next series in the Blue Ridge mountains, it's also creatively inspirational for me. Until this trip, I'd only visited NC one other time. Back when I was in college. It had been too … [Read more...]

A Hodgepodge

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Life has been a little crazy since my last post. We have been on the road a good bit, mostly business for my husband with me tagging along. But I’ve been busy working as well in the pockets of time I have free. Working and reading, actually. But lest I give the impression our life is all work lately, I thought I’d share a hodgepodge of other things we’ve been doing lately. A couple of … [Read more...]

“You’re reading that? Really?!”

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Have you ever had someone pick up a book you're reading and comment, "You're reading that? Really?" This happened to me recently, although I can't say I actually blame the person. It is a different sort of book. Holiness to the LORD: A Guide to the Expositions of the Book of Leviticus by Allen P. Ross, which was recommended to me by a preacher friend (waving to you, Dr. E). And I quickly … [Read more...]

Nourishing Your Dream

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Last week, I had the pleasure and honor of teaching at the Florida Christian Writers Conference, hosted by an organization called Word Weavers. Writers from several states and even Canada came to hear speakers, meet with editors and literary agents, get inspired, and learn how to get published. As I talked with other writers about their hopes and dreams, I remembered my very first conference and … [Read more...]

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