Each Sunday “Inspired by Life…and Fiction” shares a Christian novelist’s newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration.
NLB Horton returned to writing fiction after an award-winning career in journalism and marketing. From her home in the Rocky Mountains, she writes, cross-country skis, gardens and researches ideas for her next novel. Gardening at 8500 feet is an exercise in tough love, says Horton. “Summer is short, water is scarce, and hungry critters abound. I make the most of God’s creation in this incredibly beautiful spot with an irrigated berm surrounded by xeriscape wildflower meadows. The property is glorious in July, August, and September, when fawns are weaned, and looking for greener pastures—which they inevitably find in my yard.” Horton’s first novel in the Parched series, When Camels Fly, released in May 2014. For more about NLB, visit www.nlbhorton.com.
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| The Rocky Mountain View from NLB Horton’s desk. |
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DEBORAH RANEY's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she's still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won RWA's RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a three-time Christy Award finalist. Deb is on faculty for several national writers’ conferences and served on the executive board of the 2,500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years before retiring in 2022. She is a recent transplant to Missouri, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.
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Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous
Shirley
These gardens are incredible! Especially inviting when our weather is SO cold!
Shirley and Sharon, I’m so glad you like the gardens. Right now, they’re buried under between two and three feet of snow. I’m thankful for every drop of melt these flakes will become!
The first thing I do each morning during our short, three-month bloom season is to go out and see what’s happened in the yard overnight. And when the wild strawberries begin to ripen, bees moved to a high valley above us by a beekeeper maintain a constant hum — a symphony for the gardener!
Thank you for your comments, and happy gardening!
NLBH
And Deb, thank you so much for bringing this post from Novel Garden to Inspired by Life . . . and Fiction. I very much appreciate the double-bump of exposure!
Best wishes for a fabulous 2015,
NLBH