Writer's Workshop

Today and tomorrow I’ll be enjoying the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in Burnsville, NC. This isn’t a Christian writers event, but even though my focus is on Christian fiction, I think it’s equally important to keep up with secular writing....

What labor will you choose?

It’s Labor Day. A day that has become little more than an extra day off from work for many people. But when it was instituted in 1882, it was meant to celebrate the working man. Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and...

Sooooo many wonderful books!

September is just loaded with new releases that I’m eager to read. My only problem is pacing myself so I can get some writing done as well. Congratulations to some of my favorite authors on your new babies! Love’s Reckoning – Laura Frantz – On...

Bees and Bears

Mama’s cubs are growing fast. They’ve grown from roly poly little balls of fluff to bears about half the size of their mother. Fall is a great time for bears with good things to eat like apples, grapes, acorns, hickory nuts and . . . bees! Yup, one of my...