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To Catch a Price by Rachel Hauck

March 13, 2015 By Cara Putman

Currently Cara Putman is giving away a copy of Rachel Hauck's latest fairy tale:How to Catch a Prince,. You can enter easily by clicking here. The giveaway ends March 20th, so don't delay. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Past E&G

Developing New Ideas

March 12, 2015 By Cara Putman

Developing new ideas for books is an agony for me. I know many people who see ideas EVERYWHERE. I am not so blessed. Maybe it's because when I think of a book, I realize I am committing a minimum of two years of my life to that story. There's the research and proposal stage. Writing the proposal is truly my least favorite part of the process, but when I'm teachable and allow myself to be pushed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing

The Clerihew and You

March 11, 2015 By Robin Lee Hatcher

I love words. I love playing with words. Some words are just fun to say. Some words have lovely meanings. I subscribe to several word-of-the-day lists and recently this one came into my inbox: CLERIHEW (KLER-uh-hyoo) noun: A humorous, pseudo-biographical verse of four lines of uneven length, with the rhyming scheme AABB, and the first line containing the name of the subject. Sometimes I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing

Cover Quirks

March 5, 2015 By Karen Witemeyer

It's always exciting to get your first look at a new cover. Even if it gives you an odd feeling of deja vu. That's what happened to me when my editor first sent me the cover art for my latest release, Love on the Mend. This is a novella that follows up with a character from Full Steam Ahead. In that story, the hero and heroine take in a runaway boy named Jacob. The full story of what led the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Reading, Writing Tagged With: book cover art, Cover similarities

What Next, Lord?

February 26, 2015 By Cara Putman

Do you ever find yourself wondering what God has next? Yeah, I know. You're probably thinking, "Duh. Happens all the time, Putman." That's what I'm thinking as I sit here in Starbucks preparing this post. This is not the first time that I've neared the end of a phase of life and wonder what's next? Where does He want me to go first? Right now it's reevaluating whether I'm supposed to make … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Writing

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