The Story Behind the Story, What I’m Reading, and Giveaway
Here in Indiana the leaves are beginning to turn signaling fall is on the way, but if you’ve been to a bookstore lately, you may have noticed the Christmas collections…
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When Amazon throws you lemons…& Giveaway
Over the weekend Amazon threw me a whole orchard of lemons. What happened? My publishing account closed and all of my indie and republished books were removed and my earned…
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The many choices an author makes
This week was the first week of classes at Purdue AND Acfw board meetings and conference in St. Louis. I also had Art of Deception release Tuesday in the Come…
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Our Words Matter, Book News & Giveaway
Earlier this week I gave a keynote at a plenary session to approximately 350 court staff from across the state of Indiana on customer service and why they matter. As…
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The Challenge of Comparison
One of the things I’ve been piloting in my day job is a program for graduating senior women to help them with the transition from college student to first job…
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The unique challenges of writing out of order…
Last month I wrote a prequel to my next legal suspense. One challenge was that it was written AFTER the first book in the legal suspense series. I had/have a…
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What I Discovered in this Writing Season
By the time you read this, I’ll be close to submitting the final edits of my final book in the Guideposts series Secrets from Grandma’s Attic. As I’m wrapping up…
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You know you’re a writer when…+ Giveaways
Last night I had to finish editing this book that’s been giving me fits on suspense, so here are four ways lately I’ve known I’m a writer. Do any resonate…
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The Story Behind the Story
In April I have a novella releasing in a new collection Across the Shores. But the germ of this story came to me years ago. I was trying to find…
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Talking to My Friends
The last two weeks I’ve been chatting with many of my writing friends as I’ve been recording new episodes of Book Talk. It has been such fun! Two weeks ago…
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Goals, Intentions, and Expectations
Here we stand at the beginning of a new year. And for so many of us, our minds turn to yearly goals. I’ve been thinking a lot about that these…
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Writing, Swimming, and Giveaways, oh my!
Last month I participated in NANOWRIMO, a race to write 50K words in the month of November. It gave me the competitive drive to write 44,000 while also macro and…