For the past 13 months I've been floundering. In my personal life. In my professional life. For the first time in many, many years I feel . . . directionless. So when I read this blog …
Scavenger Hunt Stop #17
Welcome to the Autumn 2014 Scavenger Hunt. You have arrived at Stop #17. The hunt begins at noon (Mountain Time Zone) on October 17, 2014. You may have arrived here before the start which could mean all of the sites aren't …
The Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Starts Friday!
Mark your calendars because you don't want to miss this! 34 authors 35 blog stops You'll have all weekend to collect the clues and enter to win! 1st prize is a kindle fire! 2nd prize is a copy of each author's newest …
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Two Awesome Romances
Do you enjoy a good romance? I do! Historical or contemporary, doesn't matter to me. I just need a hero and heroine I care about and a story that has some deep truths that are explored in the process. Lately I read two good …
What Character Are You? A Quiz
We all love those "who are you" quizzes, right? Well there's one up on the Bethany House fiction blog today. And Lula, the heroine of Playing by Heart is one of your possibilities! Hop on over and answer the questions. Maybe …
Playing by Heart Giveaways
Two chances to enter to win copies of Playing by Heart! Enter yourself and share the information with a friend! (Both buttons are linked to their respective sites, so click away!) If you are on goodreads, enter this great …
To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain by Matt Chandler
I don't read a ton of "Christian living" type books. I won't go into all my reasons why. But on occasion I'll get a Holy Spirit unction to read something. I generally find when this happens that the book speaks to exactly …
Joe Gargery’s Wisdom #1
I'm re-reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and I'm reading it slowly. On purpose. It's not my usual mode. I generally like to race through a book. But I'm reading this way partly to savor the writing, for every …
Frustrations of a Reading Writer
There is a little bump in the reading road when you transition from a pure reader to a writing reader. Suddenly you see in published works all the glaring errors that have been pointed out in your own. You see all the rules …
The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot
I grew up reading the kind of historical fiction that revolves tightly around real historical events or people. I loved how much I learned, not just of how people lived in another time and place, but how they lived out events …