I recently returned home from a trip to California! When I go on vacation, I continue to check email and social media daily. I don't tend to post much, other than in my Instagram/Facebook stories, but I do stay stay abreast of things. During my time in California, I was taken by surprise by the increasingly amazing response to our 2026 Christian Fiction Reading Challenge. [If this is the … [Read more...]

Several years ago, I wrote a book on spec, and it wasn't exactly what the publisher wanted, so I wrote them another one. That first manuscript sat in a drawer. Many times I pulled it out and tried to reshape it, but it never came together and I always had another book waiting in the wings. Well. For the past couple of months, I've been working on that book. It has gone through more … [Read more...]

Merry day after Christmas, everyone! In thinking about what I wanted to blog about today, I thought, "I know! I'll share some of my Christmas cards through the years!" Then thought, "Wait. I think I blogged about that once already." I checked, and I DID already blog about it in 2017. So instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm recycling my original post, adding this year's Christmas card to it, and … [Read more...]