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What Do You Want to Hear About?
When Miracle in a Dry Season launches--August 2014--part of the promotion process will include me speaking. It's not enough to do a book signing anymore, authors need to give readers something of value. Now, how valuable me talking is has yet to be determined, but...
Appalachian Wednesday–Taking Out the Trash
Today is trash day in my neighborhood. That means I lug the white bag of garbage and the blue bag of recycling up to the end of the driveway and leave them for the garbage men. (I also say a little prayer that the bears don't beat them to it.) This is a far cry from...
ACFW and the Best Laid Plans
It's my first day at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference and my plan was to post pictures of all my awesome writer friends for my post today. Um, did I mention I'm terrible about taking pictures? Ah well, it's getting late in the day and I hope you'll...
Appalachian Authors
I'll be heading out to the American Christian Fiction Writer's Conference on Friday which means I get to meet my agent and editor. It also means I get to meet lots of WRITERS! Including some that are favorites of mine. Which got me thinking about favorite authors. And...
Could you do it?
I love the epiphanies I sometimes experience during our ladies' Bible study. Last week it was this: Could the Jews have gone through with crucifying Jesus if they had believed he was the Christ? We were talking about how the Jews thought they were protecting their...
Christian Writers Converging
In a week I'll be experiencing my first American Christian Fiction Writers conference. That means I'll be in a hotel with six hundred or so people who do what I do. Write. I'm equal parts excited and intimidated.This isn't my first writing conference--I've been to...
Appalachian Wednesday–APPLES!
Oh it's good to have friendly neighbors with apple trees. It may be even better than having apple trees yourself. No mowing over the windfall fruit. No yellow jackets swarming around all that fallen, bruised goodness. No guilt because you can never use them all. Our...
Sometimes you wonder why you bother . . .
I read quite a bit. Mostly in my genre, but really, I'll try just about anything (except the Grey books, you've gotta draw the line somewhere). And while I enjoy lots of books and lots of authors, it's rare that a book takes my breath away. Chris Fabry's "Not in the...
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