I’m blogging today at Inkspirational Messages where we’ve been chatting about our Guilty Pleasures – chocolate and books seem to be a common thread with all of us. 🙂 So today I get to talk about being Not Guilty of having Guilty Pleasures. https://inkspirationalmessages.com/2013/09/i-find-you-not-guilty/ We’re also having a drawing for books by Laura Frantz and Sarah Sundin. I’d love for …
Congratulations Carol & Genesis Award Winners!
While I couldn’t enjoy the ACFW Conference in person this year, thanks to Facebook I was able to live vicariously through everyone’s pictures and status updates. (Although all the photos of my friends with Frank Peretti and with Tosca Lee made me a little bit jealous. ;)) Also, I love that the Awards Gala is now broadcast online. While I …
Who Are You?
I love this song by Matthew West. When I get down on myself, it’s a much-needed reminder of who I am–who we are as seen through God’s eyes. Nothing else really matters. Hello, My Name Is by Matthew West I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made … Psalm 139:14
Loving LOVE’S AWAKENING
LOVE’S AWAKENING, Ballantyne Legacy Series (Revell) by Laura Frantz Publisher Description: Ellie finds that her parents are away on a long trip and her siblings don’t seem to want her to stay. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, envious …
The Scariest Thing About Parenting
When our daughter was born 21 years ago, my husband and I had help from my mom for a week. This parenting thing? No problem. Then my mom left, driving 3-1/2 hours away where all our friends and relatives lived. My husband and I looked at each other, with fear and the question “Now what?” gleaming from our eyes. We …
September 2013 – Novel Anticipation
September delivers a diverse selection of books–historical, literary, speculative, romance–something for every taste. I’m looking forward to reading all of these. LOVE’S AWAKENING, Ballantyne Legacy Series #2 (Revell) by Laura Frantz – I’ve read this already having received the novel courtesy of Laura Frantz and Revell. (Thank you!) Once again, Laura penned a story that was beauty all around: plot, …
Praise Thursday
This song says it all … GREAT I AM by Phillips, Craig & Dean
Research Along the North Shore
One of the great pleasures of being a writer is doing location research. With the advent of the Internet and wonderful tools such as Google Earth, it’s easy to research locales we’ve never visited. Still, there’s nothing like actually being there where you can capture the sounds and scents. The experience becomes tactile rather than visual. A week ago my …
The Invisible Introvert
Lauren ran her finger down the yellowed, curling wallpaper, a final, yet disposable reminder of her deceased mother. Wallpaper was meant to be pasted up and look pretty and generally be ignored, to blend into the background and not be noticed, to have no true value. Just like herself. Always merging into the background with no one noticing her, except …
A Day Off …
My daughter & I just returned from a very quick mother-daughter vacation, so I’m taking the day off from blogging. I’ll return Thursday. See you then!