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Guest Post: Grace Hitchcock

June 18, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer 3 Comments

Hey, y'all! I hope you enjoy this post by my friend Grace Hitchcock. Check out her books linked in her bio at the bottom of this post. She's a delightful person and writer. Enjoy! The Listening Habit that Transformed My Writing As a child, I used to love listening to fiction books on tape (yes, tape…do you remember the pain it was to rewind them, or heaven forbid try to find the exact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reading, Writing Tagged With: Audiobooks, Grace Hitchcock

Guest Post: Crystal Caudill

April 16, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

Hey y'all! My friend Crystal is posting for me today. If you haven't read her historical romance/mystery books, you should! Now here's Crystal: There is Only One Way to Do It If we’ve not met, you probably don’t know that in addition to being the author of “Dangerously Good Historical Romance,” I am a full-time caregiver for my mother-in-love. As the only child of his legally blind mom, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Family, Writing Tagged With: Crystal Caudill

Meet Megan Soja (and enter a GIVEAWAY)

April 15, 2025 By Tamera Alexander

While teaching at a women's weekend retreat two weeks ago, I had the total pleasure of meeting Megan Soja, a writing friend whose first novel—Spark of the Revolution (Harbor of Spies, book 1)—just released with Wild Heart Books in March! To celebrate being with us today, Megan is giving away a signed copy of Spark of the Revolution to one lucky IBL&F reader! Simply leave a comment TODAY … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Books, Friendship, Reading, Writing Tagged With: Megan Soja, Spark of the Revolution

What do you call a group of writers?

April 4, 2025 By Robin Lee Hatcher

Last week I saw this question on X: "A group of cats is a clowder. A group of dogs is a pack. A group people is a crowd. What is a group of writers?" I then posed the question to my writer friends. I started with "a procrastination of writers," and then they sent in a lot of other great suggestions. Lacking the poetic gene, I decided to ask Grok for some help turning those answers into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing

The Mathematics of Dancing

April 3, 2025 By Karen Witemeyer

A Sneak Peak of Proclaimer by Megan Schaulis When you live in a relatively small town, you don't expect to meet other published Christian Fiction authors, but Abilene, TX now has at least two of us! Funny enough, I didn't actually meet Megan until she introduced herself to me at an ACFW conference. Last year we met up again at a local public library event, and I eagerly invited her to do a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reading, Writing Tagged With: Behind the Book, Excerpt, Megan Schaulis, Proclaimer

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